Connections Points

[khairop]

Good Morning

We would like to design some infrstrcture diagrams with archi and since there are a lot of racks and servers we would like to separate parts of the data center via views. In this way, the diagram will not be crowded and condensed. We were plannignto use views for different parts of the data center, for example dc_view_rack23 and dc_view_rack35. One of the problems that we have is the best way to connect some switches from view_rac23 and view_rac35. we have some ideas
I1. Is any way to have a connection point on view_rac23 and a similar connection point on view_rac35. in ths way, the diagrams will be more simple without a lot of lines in between them?
I2. Is any way to create assosiation realtioships accross devices in different views (view rac23 and rac35) WITHOUT showing in the main diagram

any other ideas or comments are welcome.
Thank you in advance

[Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie]

Hi,

Is any way to have a connection point on view_rac23 and a similar connection point on view_rac35. in ths way, the diagrams will be more simple without a lot of lines in between them?

If you are speaking about Junction, then yes, like any other element, a same junction can be reuse in multiple diagrams, so you can have a "half" relationship on one diagram and the "second half" on another. When using the visualizer (or any other model navigation feature), the junction will be shown with both incoming and outgoing relationships.

Is any way to create assosiation realtioships accross devices in different views (view rac23 and rac35) WITHOUT showing in the main diagram

Not sure that's what you mean, but in Archi (and any other ArchiMate compliant tool), you decide what you show in a view, so yes, you can create a realtionship involving whatever device you want and decide to show it or it hide depending on the view (just remove it from the view).

Regards,

JB

[khairop]

Thank you. The only thing with junction is that there is no label attached in Archi. This will be great and will solve the problem on appearance. As an alternative we are thinkig nto add a note close to the junction just to "name" in in the context of the diagram completeness
For the second part of my orignal post, we are thnking if there is an easy way to import (may be through excel) some relationships directly to archi model without showing them in the view

Thanks again for the swift response

[Phil Beauvoir]

Thank you. The only thing with junction is that there is no label attached in Archi. This will be great and will solve the problem on appearance. As an alternative we are thinkig nto add a note close to the junction just to "name" in in the context of the diagram completeness

Junctions don't have labels so, yes, a note will work.

For the second part of my orignal post, we are thnking if there is an easy way to import (may be through excel) some relationships directly to archi model without showing them in the view

Thanks again for the swift response

You can import elements and relations using CSV import (please refer to the User Guide for more information). These will import into the Models Tree, not a View.