We now have the Editor Builder which is a good way of letting people update the metamodel without having the navigate the back end. Would be great to have a Viewer Builder to allow us to simply create views from scratch or from using existing views with a few alterations. The out of the box views ar...

Thanks John

It would be useful if we were able to drill into the pie charts on the Application Dashboard. The summary views are great and like the fact that the applications are all listed down the left with the ability to look at the app and what categories the app falls into. Also like the fact that it simple...

Thanks John

I just wondered what the next steps are for this? Are we able to see if this request has been approved and timescales around implementing it?

Just want to set realistic expectations our end as have a team of people chomping at the bit to use Essential to map these

Thanks John Some potential fields off the top of my head: - Name - Description - Lifecycle Status - Synonyms - Related Terms - Known Issues - Examples - Stakeholders - Notes - Approver (could be covered in Stakeholders) - Change Log - Impacting Change Activities - Impacting Decisions - System Conten...

Hi John

You can create a custom editor using the Editor Builder editor. Easy enough to add additional Panels or Tabs. Could be worth creating Issue editor as well to let users create / edit them first and then go into the App Editor (custom one you created) to create the relationship between them

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Would be useful to create Use Case Diagrams in similar way to the Business Process Models

It would be useful to be able to record user stories within Essential so can link these to programmes, projects etc Would be good to record: Epic Epic name / number As a user I want to So that I can The Epics can contain User Stories that record: User Story name / number As a user I want to So that ...

We are looking for a tool to use to create BPMN type diagrams. Used Essential to do a Business Process Model which works well but is missing the ability to create swim lanes based on the Owner or supporting application

It would be good to have a basic business glossary within Essential

Something as simple as term and description that is presented in a catalogue would be handy

Hi Jason

Thanks for the reply

That sounds exactly what we would like - I was being very simplistic in my example. Would definitely give this a big +1

That works a treat, thanks Neil

That makes sense. Thanks John

Would be good to extend Essential to allow us to record and report on SLAs agreed with the business / suppliers Tried shoe horning this into Business Process RTO/RPO Mapping view but falls down. For example: App1 has Ap Business Criticality set at 1: High App2 has Ap Business Criticality set at 2: M...

I might be missing something, but I cannot see a Strategic Plan Catalogue showing a list of all strategic plans. There is a Strategic Plan Summary report under Technology but that does not work as you are not given a chance to select the strategic plan you want a summary of first so details are all ...

We are trying to map activity within a project so that we can see this on a roadmap. Problem is that Project Activity does not appear in any of the Project related views / reports. Is this by design? Should we be creating activity as separate projects that are linked back to a parent project? Is the...

We are trying to build a way where a project / PM / developer etc can go into a view and say they are looking for an application to do fulfil a particular capability without having to contact Architecture e.g. We use Azure Logic Apps to transfer files from Azure subscription without access to On pre...

Hi John Thanks for that, makes perfect sense. Yes we have launchpad and have used to that to play around with modelling this as described which have been able to do which is great How do we then view this? Ideally would see all the Technology Products / Components mapped to each website - we are cur...

Hi We are trying to model our digital portfolio in Essential Viewer. Settled on creating them as applications as this allows us to capture and present most of the information that is stored on the spreadsheet we are trying to replace Struggling with how to model the 'dev stack' used on a website e.g...

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We are using Essential to record and manage our suppliers and contracts. I have added a contract and specified the CCR Currency as British Pound (see Capture1 attached) yet it is showing as $ in the Supplier Contract Management view (see Capture2 attached)

How do we change the label in the view?

Hi all I am new to Essential project and looking for some help from the community if possible..... I am looking at how easy it would be to add some custom fields to a logical data object and then display those custom fields as: Columns on the Data Catalogue by Name view Fields within the Data Object...