Create relation when technology service is dropped onto application interaction.

[svenvandevelde]

Hello,

Please try to create a link (automatically), when a technology service is dropped onto an application interaction.



This would be the representation when the technology component would be outside the application interaction symbol:



When the technology service Database Integration is dragged onto the Integration and Staging application interaction, a link is not created automatically. (With other symbols links are created automatically, and even allow to choose which link is required, like a realization or an assignment etc.).

Pls consider this addition.

Sven

[Phil Beauvoir]

There is because the types of nested relationships are Composition, Aggregation, Access, Assignment, Realization, and Specialization. See section 5.1 of the ArchiMate 3.2 specification. You can change this in Archi in the Connections -> ARM Preferences. See page 45 of the Archi User Guide.

[svenvandevelde]

Excellent. Thank you.

It is because with a technology service, the possible relation types with application interactions are none of the ones mentioned in the 3.2 specification. I would call this actually a functional "defect", as an application interaction can be realized by a specific technology service type.

But I understand that this forum is not the place to debate archimate specifications.
Thanks for the funcionality hint and yes, that helped!

Sven

[Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie]

Hi,

I would call this actually a functional "defect", as an application interaction can be realized by a specific technology service type.

There is no "defect" here as indeed an application interaction can be realized by technology behavior, but interaction being internal application behavior, it can only be realized by internal technology behavior (ie. function, process or interaction). A service can only realize another service.

Regards,

JB