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xiaoqi

Hi all, I've upgraded my viewer to "essential_viewer_61910", when define new value stream, I found the "Value Stream Summary" view will become blank screen if I have double quotes symbol in the name of any Value Stage element. We really have several names need this, e.g. “Pre-Mar...

xiaoqi

Hello, I'd like to get your help on the "Description" column's display issue. The view I'm populating is "Application Impact Analysis", the data contents are loaded and shown correctly, but the Description column - both in "Business Impact" and "Application Impact&...

xiaoqi

Thanks Neil, I'll try to configure to downgrade Java to 8 and observe this.

xiaoqi

Thanks a lot Neil, now understand this restriction and will communicate with people who are using the search bar.

Yes, it's really needed, given the reason that we have lots of "name" may at list have "&".

Thanks a lot,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi Neil, Sorry for not replying in-time, I have some urgent modeling so I had to restored to one earlier backup and redo the work in the past days instead troubleshooting. Now got time to check this, yes, even I use in standalone Protege, I had activated the "ChangeAnalysis" tab to record ...

xiaoqi

Hello, Today after my Windows PC reboot, I got attached pop up saying it's processing of "loading ontology changes", but it's not stopped, and nothing response either "Hide" or "Cancel". There's error message shown in the protege terminal: java.lang.NullPointerException...

xiaoqi

Hello, I've introduced to colleagues of using the Search feature to get in-scope classes which it's quite convenient. However, today, I found one issue when I have some special characters in the Searching string, the special character is removed during search querying, hence the expected result is n...

xiaoqi

Thansk John, I'll test this way in my code.

xiaoqi

Hello again, Just updates that I think I found one tricky way to solve the issue. I've compared the way of treaing the "Description" slot, which the source code is common\core_utilities.xsl , and tried mirroring the approach for my three new slots, the reason I don't have data loaded to th...

xiaoqi

Here I also attached the updated xsl file for your review.

xiaoqi

Hello, I'm facing one issue in "Project Summary" view but the reason can be generic, below I try to explain in detail: I've used "Change_Activity > Project" to track our on-hand projects, the default slots are working fine. Recently, our project review would like to see more spec...

xiaoqi

Thanks Neil, I've disabled the report "Core: Application Technology Platform Model" and also remove the Report_Menu, now it's not misleading the people when they browsing the views. For Technology Alignment, I don't see error in JavaScript console, refer to attached image please. So I thin...

xiaoqi

Thanks John, fully understand now and I agree it's making sense to keep framwork agnostic.

I've marked those roles with distinguished label and indicated them in the internal documentation.

Thanks again,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Thanks John for teaching me this, I didn't aware this icon too much since it's not same in the newer version of Protege, but now through clicking that I can view all of the instances that I've connected to which "Front" or "Back". Before I deleting one pair of "Front" /...

xiaoqi

Hello, We've modeled our application list into "Application Catalogue", now I have one question about the two pop-up items when clicking the application name link: "Technology Platform Model" and "Technology Strategy Alignment". (See attached picture: 20240507-app-tech-...

xiaoqi

Thanks John, I want to remove two of them from duplications. Before I do that, I'd like to know which one is actually used for mapping to any existing Business Capabilities in the repository. Do you have any suggestion on how I can query that? I see we have "Queries" and "Lucene Query...

xiaoqi

Hello, As attached, I still see there are double "Back" and double "Front" under "Business_Capability_Role", are there any specific reason to keep them duplicated? When I choose them for populating Business Capability Model / Dashboard, I cannot see any distinguish betw...

xiaoqi

Hello, One another question on global search usage. When we fill in the key word, the search result has 3 columns: Name, Description and Type. It's perfectly working that all of the contents (or say Instances) in the repository which had configured in "Report_Menu" (refer to previous post:...

xiaoqi

Hi Jean-Marie, Thanks greatly, it's indeed one quick and working method, I've tested and the result is not shown in the searched table. With your hint, from this code mentioned, I've further explored the content in “EA_Support" -> "Essential_Viewer" -> "Menu_Management" -> &...

xiaoqi

Hello, As attached, it's very powerful to use the Search icon to wild look for information loaded into the viewer. Recently, within information architecture layer, we've added some usage on "Data_Object_Attribute", it's possible to view thos Attributes elements (individuals) in "Data ...

xiaoqi

I found it's sorted based on the element's "internal name", which is the unique IDs, but I'd like to use Name or maybe control the ordering by sequence number if possible. Help needed.

(also, if you can, could you please help to move this post to OpenSource group?)

Thanks,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello, I've create numbers of Information_Domain and then Information_Concept with hierarchy, and populate them into the View: Information Reference Model. The problem is I cannot sort per Information_Domain with my intended order. I tried to set in "Sequence Number" field of Information_D...

xiaoqi

Have you try the "Data Category" field? Maybe that's not the perfect one, but you can create the classification as list of Category and assign that per Data Object. Then in View: Data Subject Summary you can see that in the "Data Objects" table. You can also set Category to Data ...

xiaoqi

Hello, Working on some of our Value Streams currently, we have two Value Streams which have quite similar purpose, the only difference is they are serving different internal business units. So, when modeling the Value Stages, say, there're 6 stages end to end, I found only the #5 stage is in differe...

xiaoqi

Hi John,

Any new development plan for XSL=business/core_bl_value_stream_summary.xsl, in the post, I'm still interest to see whether to show two (or more) levels of Value Stream, means L2 value stage included in upper level L1 value stage.

Thanks,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello,

Just update here that we've upgraded Tomcat to v9.0.86, and things (Viewer and its publishing) are running smoothly.

Regards,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Great thanks for your confirmation.

xiaoqi

Thanks Neil for your so quick reply, sure, will proceed the upgrading today.

xiaoqi

Hi Neil,

Do you mean the whole "edu.stanford.smi.protegex.owl" folder? It contains quite a lot other files as attached, not required by Essential?

Best regards,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello, I setup our open source package almost one year ago in one remote server and it works smoothly so I keep all the configuration no change until now. The Tomcat version was v9.0.71 when I did the initiatilization last year, recently our company's server scanning report the vulnerability on this...

xiaoqi

Hi all, Happ New Year! During my past months' experience and practice on Essential open source package, I'd gotten quite a lot help from Essential team and friends here. Since I really got many problems for making the tool working in my environment (not blaming the tool, but those are naturally happ...

xiaoqi

Hi Neil, Thanks for your so quick reply, good to know there's no file size limitation ;-) The "curl -v" command gets the successful reply. Indeed, the issue is from the Java Heap Size, we just checked that setting. We had just checked the max heap size in remote server's Tomcat setting, st...

xiaoqi

Hello, This problem troubles me for more than one month, I've kept monitoring the behavior and now would like to report to you to see whether there's any constraints inside the viewer design. We'd used the OpenSource editor for quite several months, and one day (about a month ago) suddenly I cannot ...

xiaoqi

same to me, it's "file not found", could you please make it available?

The link is in this page: https://enterprise-architecture.org/uni ... essential/

xiaoqi

Great catch! I've tried again and put content with the code block into the attached image, now the question is able to posted.

Thanks a lot!
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello, I've modeled business process and showing that in "Business Process Summary" view. Within the "Implementing Processes" table, I'm able to show following contents: - PROCESS PERFORMED BY: slot "Performed By Organisation", OK - APPLICATION SERVICE UTILISING: so far...

xiaoqi

Hello, Thanks for response, I'm sitting in Canada, and yes, I'm behind company VPN, when the VPN connected, I see the gateway is also using Canada, so the location is same. I'm attached my message in attached as one image, and there's one line of code in the middle, not sure whether that line is poi...

xiaoqi

It is so strange that this post is allowed submitting but blocked another one, in same PC (same IP) and without special character, will try to re-compose and try.

xiaoqi

Does anyone see this before? I just compose one another post and get this when try to either Submit or "Save draft".

Thanks a lot,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi there, update my current status, after following steps, the viewer is now published successfully -- 1. Login to remote server. 2. Stop TomCat 3. Delete all war files and extracted folders in webapps folder 4. Use the latest downloaded viewer war, rename to my target name, copy to webapps folder 5...

xiaoqi

Hi John, Thanks for your support. After I've mapped "Process Performed At Sites" to "Sites" within slot "Performed by Organizations", the locations are starting to show the numbers of the sites have mapped now. See attached picture 1. However, see the other screen, I co...

xiaoqi

Hello,

We have modeled several business processes, and linked the process (as well as activities) to the geographic location.

But now in this Process Map view, no response when clicking on the country in the map.

Could you help to check?

Thanks, Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello Elena, Just want to share my views on this for your reference. Firstly, it's quite depending on the positioning of those Microsoft products in your enterprise architecture landscape. In my opinion, we've used Application_Provider within Application_Logical layer for modeling the Business Appli...

xiaoqi

Further troubleshooting try with following steps, but still no help: 1. I've stopped the Tomcat in server side, delete the current Viewer folder; 2. then from the downloaded "essential_viewer_6187.war", rename it to my model's viewer name; 3. copy the war file to server's webapps folder 4....

xiaoqi

It's really strange this time, below are some more testing I've done: - it's not all the time cannot publish, some seldom times it's just "successful". but most of the time it's error. - the URL is working when opening in browser, Tomcat is running without problem When it's failed publish,...

xiaoqi

I recently upgrade viewer 6.18.9 from our website and upgraded.

xiaoqi

Hello, My viewer publishing have run smoothly after I've moved to this 64GB RAM machine, with proper Java Heap Size setting in both Protege and Tomcat side. But today, I got below error again, Rendering repository... Sending repository snapshot... Checking for access... Sending XML snapshot... Excep...

xiaoqi

One more input, besides the Top Layer Business Processes are now sorted by adding "business_process_index" slot, which can be controlled in customized way, below I also found the template for sub-processed under every Top Process. Original code: "subProcess":[<xsl:apply-templates...

xiaoqi

Update again, it's working now, there's one additional "]" is earlier code, now as below: var model=[<xsl:apply-templates select="$topBusinessProcesses" mode="model"><xsl:sort select="current()/own_slot_value[slot_reference = 'business_process_index']/value" o...

xiaoqi

Added, it's still working when I remove those "sorting" part:

Code: Select all

var model=[<xsl:apply-templates select="$topBusinessProcesses" mode="model"><xsl:sort /></xsl:apply-templates>]

Need consult from you whether the middle Sorting part is the issue?

Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi John, Thanks for your help. In my current "core_bl_business_process_hierarchy.xsl", I found that code mentioned by you in line 251, as below: var model=[<xsl:apply-templates select="$topBusinessProcesses" mode="model"/>] However, it's wrapped in the "var model =...

xiaoqi

Thanks greatly Neil, I'll enable these two files under my OS Business folder and configure them into the views to see the result.

xiaoqi

Hi, See new Value Streams (business/core_bl_value_streams.xsl) view is added in 6.18.9, may I know whether and how it can be available to Open Source edition? Where can I find the xsl file? Would like to experience this new view with our repository since I've the VS-App mapping already, thanks. Rega...

xiaoqi

Thanks John, I've applied this fix and it's working on our view. Now the information looks great!

Regards,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello Jason and all again, With our recent further research, we found it would be good to still link three Product classes -- Product_Concept, Product_type and Product -- altogether for one cross mapping in our repository, as attached updated mapping pattern. The two out of box views - Business Func...

xiaoqi

Hello,

May I know when the feature can be added? Or is there any hints that I can customize the current view for making the sort possible?

Thanks, Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Update: I've troubleshot this on my client side, the Protege doesn't have any issue, then after I restart the Tomcat service in the server (where Essential Viewer is running on) side, it's working now and I can successfully publish. Will keep monitoring.

xiaoqi

I see this error today again: WARNING: Invalid cookie header: "Set-Cookie: essential_viewer.i18n=en-gb; Max-Age=31535000; Expires=Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:57:50 GMT; Path=/". Invalid 'expires' attribute: Sat, 31 Aug 2024 03:57:50 GMT -- ResponseProcessCookies.processCookies() In Protege, it's l...

xiaoqi

Great thanks John, I'll try to apply to my views base on your guide.

xiaoqi

Hello,

Is there any hints on this configuration?

Now I found another sample, see attached picture, "Business_Activity" vs "Business_Process", the "Business_Activity" instance list is not sorted automatically.

Thanks,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hello, Recently, I noticed the really useful feature from the top banner called ESSENTIAL VIEWPOINT in some views, see attached picture, like Business Capability Dashboard, Application Dashboard. From this banner, it will be valuable to show some sub-scoping contexts, e.g. geographic, Business Units...

xiaoqi

Thanks a lot Jason, using Initiating & Raised event nodes is really one good workaround, I've added then to the flow and now at least can see the starting and ending. Two more tiny points before perfecting, referring to attached screenshots: 1. It's strange still that the text in the line, here ...

xiaoqi

Hello, Recent days I'm working quite a lot in Business Process modeling, here is one question of using this view. Background: (see attached 20230720-01.png) some of our processes may have the decision element used in the last step, like this sample, if the decision is "yes" then the proces...

xiaoqi

Hello, With help gotten recently, the usage of Business Process Model view is quite smooth and it provides easy way to show the hierarchy of business process then drill down to process flow. Just one tiny suggestion, in attached picture, by default, the display of visualized process flow is "To...

xiaoqi

Hi all, Also problem of using Business Process Model view. As attached, this is quite commonly model, that "1.1. Sales" process (or activity) is cross owned by two parties. When modeling in Protege, I put two role in the "Business Process Owned By Business Role" slot, within the ...

xiaoqi

Hi John,

I use this version and it's display special character in proces flow perfectly. See attached image.

Thanks.
Xiaoqi

p.s. I have another displaying issue on using this view, raise one new question to prevent mixing here.

xiaoqi

Got it Neil, will refer the page and keep monitoring the repository. Now it's already having 17K+ instances, and I'll try to keep increase both heap size and get the good-enough settings.

xiaoqi

Thanks greatly Neil, yes, you catch the point. I've troubleshot with my colleague and he also found the issue was due to setting in Tomcat, see following log: 10-Jul-2023 13:50:45.093 SEVERE [http-nio-8080-exec-3] org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process Failed to complete proces...

xiaoqi

Hi Neil, Hope I can use the attached diagram to explain my case, it's kind of complexity since I think I may miss something when do package migration which causing now the publishing error. In short, I have one old laptop before and build the repository initially (the top block), it is working well ...

xiaoqi

Hello, Today I install Essential OS in new Windows laptop, the local TomCat is up and running, the URL: http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer_6181/report?XML=reportXML.xml&XSL=home.xsl&cl=en-gb&LABEL=Home can display the correct initial viewer page. But I keep get this publish error. Co...

xiaoqi

Hi Tshitshi,

Thanks for your information, I've followed your tips and added the variable into the System Environment setting, and tried to change one word in Business Activity to add " ' ", but the result is the whole process flow cannot be shown (empty).

Regards,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi John,

Could you check attached two images reposted?

Thanks,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi John,

Both server.xml and web.xml are updated per the change recommendation, but still cannot display the block if having ' in the text.

Regards, Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi, I'm making business process modeling, when create the Activities (or Process) element in the PROCESS_FLOW Diagram, it will not be shown in the Business Process Model view. I capture one video to demo this problem I'm facing: https://youtu.be/eK9ImP8yfLI Any hints or is there any configuration I'...

xiaoqi

Thanks a lot, it's really powerful!

xiaoqi

Hello, I'm trying to add some customized slots for one class, I added some new slots, most of the slots are displayed in the bottom of the class screen, but one slot is wrongly displayed in the overlapping of the top of the screen, resulting it's not usable. Attached is the screenshot of the problem...

xiaoqi

got it, thanks

xiaoqi

The link is not working, could you please help to give the correct link? Thanks.

xiaoqi

Hi, same question, I cannnot find download link from here: https://enterprise-architecture.org/res ... ase-notes/, could you please advise where the 6.17 can be downloaded?

Thanks, Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi John, Add one more test on the searching of the instance, in attached picture, you can compare. To my understanding, it's the sort not set for any situation when listing the Data_Subject instances, that make it unique behavior than any other classes. Hope it's clear and you can duplicate this iss...

xiaoqi

Thanks John, the tip you mentioned is working for other classes, as switch and back will trigger re-load the instance list and that normally get sorted display.

But it's not working for this Data_Subject, kind of strange

Regards,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Here is the preferences in Protege, I didn't change this, looks like the "slot tree" should be sorted, but not applying to Data_Subject class.

xiaoqi

Thanks John, have downloaded your file and will deploy to my environment for verification.

xiaoqi

Hello, I think this is the question relating to Protege, but not able to find answers, so asking here. Attached you can compare the two class: Information_Concept and Data_Subject, in both I've created numbers of instances for mapping them each other. In class Information_Concept (and all other clas...

xiaoqi

Thanks a lot, have tested and it's working now as list format.

xiaoqi

Thanks John and hope to have the findings soon.

xiaoqi

here is the file you mentioned. I see the timestamp is no change after extracting.

xiaoqi

Hello, It's regarding to the view XSL file: information/core_il_data_object_summary.xsl. The View name is Data Object Summary. I have mapped multiple (3) Data Subject to one common Data Object. In this "Data Object Summary" view, these 3 Data Subjects are correctly shown in the Parent Data...

xiaoqi

Hi John, Here are the path for these 2 views -- Business Process Family Catalogue as Table: (OK of Chinese characters displaying) -- From Business Process Family Summary https://[host/ViewerPath]/report?XML=reportXML.xml&XSL=business/core_bl_bus_process_fam_list_as_table.xsl&LABEL=Business%2...

xiaoqi

Thanks a lot Neil!

xiaoqi

Hello,

After the new website changed, the link https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... meta-model (which is in default viewer portal) is not accessible.

Could you help to let me know whether there's changed URL for documentation and this meta-model page?

Thanks,
Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Hi John,

Looks like after the forum upgrading, most of the attached image files are lost, could you check for that on other posts as well?

Here is the original image I uploaded.

Xiaoqi

xiaoqi

Thanks John for your taking care.

xiaoqi

Thanks a lot, I've added your suggested parameter in the server-start batch file, the command is running but the terminal window closed without any notice. And I cannot find either service or task about Protege Server to prove it's running. However, I cannot connect to server from Protege client, it...

xiaoqi

Hello all, I've built the parent-child relationship to Business Processes, and now it's OK to have the Business Process Hierarchy visualized, content is OK for now, but I'd like to know whether there's possibility to allow me customized the sorting order of those Top level business processes, e.g., ...

xiaoqi

Hi Declan, I'm using OpenSource Platform, however hope the meta-model structure is able to be leveraged each other. Attached is the meta-model that I used to connect Technology_Capability with other classes, and with those relations I can show the Tech_Reference_Model in nested structure. Regards, X...

xiaoqi

Hello all, I made business process flows for China company, there're certain Chinese characters in description field. As attached screenshot, the Chinese characters are displayed correctly in "View: Business Process Family Catalogue as Table" (the right), but not recognized in "View: ...

xiaoqi

Hello, I'm trying to use the view:Application Dependency Model v2 to show the integration pattern including API in the middle, after built in the static architecture with using Interface element, the overall visualization is good, however, when I examine the detail data flow through switching applic...

xiaoqi

Hello, When I work on the Static Archiecture for the application, and click the "Information Exchanged" to pop up the screen, there's one screen when click the step-3 to enter (or choose) the information used. In that screen, the Name field part has overlapping display, while I can type in...

xiaoqi

Hello, I checked forum here with a few similar discussion on protege server cannot start error, but not fix the problem. I installed the multi-user environment in one Windows Server 2022, and have connected the MySQL DB in the same server. Follow the thread suggestion https://enterprise-architecture...

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