How to change relations (from Composition to Agregation) in batch mode

[rvaneerd]

Hi,

As I'm rather new to Archimate® and Archi I made a mistake.
I'm now facing the situation that in several views I implemented a Composition relation by dragging elements into a group.
These need to be changed into Aggregation relations.
I know, I can try to find them and delete the Composition relation and add an Aggregation relation.
But is there a more batch mode method that I can use?

Thanks for any ideas.

Regards,
Rob

[Phil Beauvoir]

Hi Rob,

you can change them by selecting them and right-clicking and choosing "Change Concept Type" and choose the required relationship type.

Phil

[rvaneerd]

Hi Rob,

you can change them by selecting them and right-clicking and choosing "Change Concept Type" and choose the required relationship type.

Phil

Thanks Phil, but what if the relations are hidden within a Group element (which contains the other elements)?
Is there another way besides pulling them out of the Grouping element and doing this one by one?

Regards,
Rob.

[Phil Beauvoir]

Is there another way besides pulling them out of the Grouping element and doing this one by one?

You could use a jArchi script.

[rvaneerd]

Is there another way besides pulling them out of the Grouping element and doing this one by one?

You could use a jArchi script.

Hi Phil,
Thanks but then I have to dig into jArchi.
Which is on my prioritized To-Do list.......

From my perspective, this topic can now be closed.

Regards,
Rob.

[Phil Beauvoir]

Or you could manually edit the .archimate file in a text editor and replace "archimate:CompositionRelationship with "archimate:AggregationRelationship" (assuming that the relationship is valid).

[Jean-Baptiste Sarrodie]

Hi,

Thanks Phil, but what if the relations are hidden within a Group element (which contains the other elements)?
Is there another way besides pulling them out of the Grouping element and doing this one by one?

Changing the type of the relationship can be done using the "Set Concept Type" action from the contextual menu. This work from within a view but also the model tree, so if you're able to find these composition in the model tree, then you're able to quickly change their type.

Regards,

JB

[Phil Beauvoir]

This work from within a view but also the model tree, so if you're able to find these composition in the model tree, then you're able to quickly change their type.

Thanks, JB. I forgot about that!