Manage templates
Use templates to specify the graphic properties of models, object symbols, and connections.
Model templates contain basic settings that change the appearance and attribute placements of models and contained items all at once. This enables you to apply settings defined once to all relevant models. Using the templates supplied or those you create yourself will enable you to easily customize your models according to your requirements.
Configuration administrators can create templates and assign templates to a model type. If a model of this type is created or imported from ARIS Express, the applied template is used automatically.
Users can assign templates to models. When users assign templates to models, the settings made in the templates overrule all default settings for models and contained elements as well as database-related settings, such as font formats. All new objects and connections added to such models appear like defined in the template that was assigned last. When settings were changed for individual object definitions, these settings remain even if templates are applied.
Moreover, you can assign multiple templates to models. This means that you can assign a template to a model to change the size of objects, for example, and another that places the required attributes above the objects. Both changes take effect. Assigning multiple templates is possible for existing objects only. If you create new objects, only the template you assigned last will be applied to them.
You can do the following:
Copy templates to different tenants immediately.
Click Tenants.
Click the relevant tenant. The Information pages gives an overview of this tenant.
Click Assets. The navigation tree allows navigating to all filters, templates, reports, and related files, as well as to databases.
Click Templates. All current templates are listed.
Activate the controls of the templates to be copied. To activate all at once, click the control in the Templates heading. The number of selected items is displayed along with the
Copy assets, 
Import assets and 
Export assets action buttons.Click
Copy assets. The Copy assets to tenants dialog opens. All tenants are listed to which the templates can be copied. If the list is too long, you can specify the tenant name in the field next to the source tenant.Activate the controls of all target tenants the templates are to be copied to.
Click OK.
Warning
If the templates already exist, they are overwritten in the target.
The templates are copied to the selected tenants.
Export templates from this tenant to a template backup archive.
Click Tenants.
Click the relevant tenant. The Information pages gives an overview of this tenant.
Click Assets. The navigation tree allows navigating to all filters, templates, reports, and related files, as well as to databases.
Click Templates. All templates are listed.
Activate the controls of the templates to be exported. To activate all at once, click the control in the Templates heading. The number of selected items is displayed along with the
Copy assets, Import assets and Export assets action buttons.Click
Export assets. The templates are zipped to an archive file. The name of the archive file has the format:<source tenant name><time stamp>.zip
Select the next action. You can either open the file or save it.
Click OK.
The templates are downloaded from the tenant and saved to the archive file.
You can import templates from this file to different tenants.
Import templates to this tenant from a template export archive.
Prerequisites
You have access to a template archive file created by a template export, or to a template export file created in ARIS Architect.
Warning
If templates with the same GUID already exist in the tenant, they are overwritten.
Click Tenants.
Click the relevant tenant. The Information pages gives an overview of this tenant.
Click Assets. The navigation tree allows navigating to all filters, templates, reports, and related files, as well as to databases.
Click Templates. All current templates are listed.
Click
Import assets. The Import assets to tenant dialog opens.Click Select. The file browser opens.
Navigate to the source file. Select either a template archive file (*.zip) or a template export file (*.template), and click Open. The file browser closes.
Click OK.
The templates are imported from the archive file to the tenant.