The following animations give an impression of what ArisFlow is, how it works and how easy it is to create a functioning flowchart.

All animations are AVI files. You will need an application which is capable of playing AVI files, such as Windows Media Player. To get a quick impression of these animations, a smaller preview is available for each of them. The animations can be viewed directly, or saved to disk. When saved to disk, you can choose between a zipped version (Windows) and a gzipped version (UNIX). These files can be uncompressed with applications such as WinZip, PkZip or gzip.

• Creation of a flowchart in which two input files are processed by an application to produce an output file: afcreate.

   

  

   

  This animation shows:
  • Designing of an ArisFlow flowchart;
  • Linking of data elements in the flowchart to real data files;
  • Assignment of descriptions to the various elements of the flowchart;
  • Linking of an action element in the flowchart to an application (a "growth-model");
  • Definition of a command line to execute the growth model;
  • Execution of the growth model.
  • Colours in the ArisFlow flowchart:
    • Grey: element is not yet defined;
    • Blue: element represents input data;
    • Red: element is not up-to-date, needs to be executed;
    • Yellow: action element is executing;
    • Black: element is up-to-date, has been executed;
  
  

  Entire animation Duration: 4 min 42 sec. (3 mar 1999) Video for Windows afcreate.avi 1.041 Kb. afcreate.zip 192 Kb. afcreate.avi.gz 186 Kb.	Preview Duration: 19 sec. (4 mar 1999) Video for Windows afcreate_small.avi 90 Kb.

• Execution of an ArisFlow flowchart which calls different applications: afrun.

   

  

   

  This animation shows:
  • Conversion of population data (MS-DOS);
  • Execution of a growth model (MS-DOS);
  • Conversion of growth data (MS-DOS);
  • Several actions in Excel;
  • Viewing of output data in ArisView, a viewer for geographical data (Windows);
  • Execution of all actions in a logical order, which is automatically determined by ArisFlow;
  • Colours in the ArisFlow flowchart:
    • Grey: element is not yet defined;
    • Blue: element represents input data;
    • Red: element is not up-to-date, needs to be executed;
    • Yellow: action element is executing;
    • Black: element is up-to-date, has been executed;
  
  

  Entire animation Duration: 2 min 1 sec. (4 mar 1999) Video for Windows afrun.avi 922 Kb. afrun.zip 171 Kb. afrun.avi.gz 166 Kb.	Preview Duration: 16 sec. (4 mar 1999) Video for Windows afrun_small.avi 137 Kb.

• Applying of changes in input data en the subsequent recalculation of an ArisFlow flowchart with different applications: afmodify. This example uses the same flowchart as afrun (above).

   

  

   

  This animation shows:
  • Changing of trend data by linking a data element to another data file;
  • ArisFlow performs an automatic check, parts that need to be recalculated will be shown in red;
  • Execution of actions that need to be recalculated;
  • Colours in the ArisFlow flowchart:
    • Grey: element is not yet defined;
    • Blue: element represents input data;
    • Red: element is not up-to-date, needs to be executed;
    • Yellow: action element is executing;
    • Black: element is up-to-date, has been executed;
  
  

  Entire animation Duration: 2 min 38 sec. (4 mar 1999) Video for Windows afmodify.avi 1.101 Kb. afmodify.zip 198 Kb. afmodify.avi.gz 192 Kb.	Preview Duration: 23 sec. (4 mar 1999) Video for Windows afmodify_small.avi 184 Kb.