Strange (but maybe nice) behavior of ARM in Archi 4 (beta7 and previous)

[jbsarrodie]

Hi Phil,

Relationship creation is good with ARM (and now respect standard for specific case of Specialization), but relationship masking has a strange behavior because Archi hides relationship for "target in source" (behavior described in ArchiMate standard), but also for "source in target" in all cases.

On the first hand this is nice because we sometime would like it to be done (e.g. for Capabilities that are Realized by a lot of behavior elements), but on the other hand this is not fully aligned with ArchiMate and can be confusing is some rare cases.

For example, SystemSoftware and Artifact can be nested in both ways, but from a standards point of view:

• SystemSoftware nested inside Artifact implies that Artifact Realizes SystemSoftware
• Artifact nested inside SystemSoftware implies that SystemSoftware is Assigned to Artifact

IMHO, we should add an option to specify this strict/relaxed behavior in the ARM preference pane and make "strict" the default one (up to you to see if this is done for 4.0 or 4.x)

JB