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Managing the object link definitions

The pop-up menu for an object link definition provides you with various options for editing.

Pop-up menu items for editing object link definitions

You can create a new object link definition, edit the selected definition, or delete the selected definition. Clicking Edit Edit opens the Create object link dialog, as when creating a new object link definition (see Figure 172).

The options for editing the selected object link definition can also be found in the tab bar.

Buttons in Start tab bar for managing object link definitions

The object link definitions are saved in the system database on the ARIS server. Selecting Object links in the Link types area in the Explorer tree on the Administration tab, you can export the object link definitions to a file to transfer them to a different ARIS server by clicking Export Export object link. To import, click Import Import object link on the other server.

Clicking Generate Generate from database contents starts the analysis for all existing reuse relationships within an ARIS database and creates object link definitions for them in the system database.

This is helpful if you are importing a database with reuse relationships and you then want to create these reuse relationships yourself but you have not yet created the corresponding object link definitions. Merely to view or evaluate the reuse relationships in an ARIS database, it is not necessary to create the object link definitions in the system database.