Hi. On the definition side: you should use the 'Security_Classification" Class to define such classifications ( public, private, confidential and restricted). You can then apply these classifications to architecture elements (such as data objects) with the "Classified XXXX" slots of t...

Hi,
glad to see you've found the right approach .

J.-M.

Hi Xiaoqi, Ugly quick solution : edit the file "common/core_search_results.xsl" replace the line <xsl:variable name="linkClasses" select="$allReportMenus/own_slot_value[slot_reference = 'report_menu_class']/value"/> with <xsl:variable name="linkClasses" select...

Hi xiaoqi, it may be because the rmiregistry process does not have the protege jar files in its classpath. For me, under unix, the most robust solution was to add these jars to the classpath when launching rmiregistry using its '-J' argument : rmiregistry -J-cp -J$CLASSPATH& I'm not proficient e...

Hi Gena, I can't comment about the group as I'm not part of it. However two pointers could help : Are you aware of the "starter capability model" here (based on a previous version of the UCISA UK cap. model) : https://enterprise-architecture.org/dupcentral.php If you are in Europe, the Eun...

Looks like an OS level problem : do you have access rights to delete this file ?

Hi Neil, 1: My intent was not to imply that you should change the DTD for i18n translation files, it was more about the choice of an intermediary format that translators could use to ease their work. 2: I missed this recent github repository dedicated to translations :) well done ... 3: About JSON/J...

Done ...:

See https://github.com/essentialproject/ess ... er/pull/14

Hi John,
I added some code to our instance in order to ... tell me if you think it would be of any interest, I'll submit a PR on github ...

J.-M.

Hi neil. See below, some thoughts about your call to translate : Discussion point 1 : use a "standard' file format for translation file exchanges ? As the former initiator of the French translation, I must confess that working from essential files is not the best way to maintain a translation p...

Hi,
Technology components (e.g. "technology products") are not accounted for in project impact capability heatmaps. Any reason for that ?
For example : impacts for "Drools BRMS" are not displayed in this view :
example view

Regards,
Jean-Marie.

well the app fails to start now It's difficult to tell why the application is not starting withour error message.Just two guesses : 1) if it doesn't start *after* you just renamed your jdbc driver file to some driverX.jar' : there is a problem with this jdbc driver file; 1) in case you modified you...

Hi Alex,
maybe, you could try one of the workaround described here :

https://appuals.com/fix-windows-error-2 ... g-java-vm/

J.-M.

Hi, protege does not scan for driver jars its installation directory at startup. By default, It expects these driver files to be called either driver.jar, driver1.jar, driver2.jar. Did you rename the driver jar file when you copied it to the install dir ? regards, J.-M. PS: Expected names (driverX.j...

Hi, Relation between app service and information views it may processes is indirectly done through functions : Application_Service --provides--> Application_Function Application_Function -->input_views-> Information_View Application_Function -->output_views-> Information_View J.-M. PS: I shortened s...

Many views are not functional when instance names or descriptions are containing an &apos; character. <= Function eas:renderJSAPIText@common/core_utils.xsl is escaping &apos; resulting in illegal JSON expressions (e.g. "\^'" is not legal json per JSON Notation standard ). A fix wou...

The 'new Style Group Actor Summary' cannot display any organizational chart as there is a bug in the org graph construction. The following diff should correct this defect: diff --git a/enterprise/core_el_org_summary_new.xsl b/enterprise/core_el_org_summary_new.xsl index 79d5cd8..9439de6 100644 --- a...

About your other questions (BC/AC mappings): I'll let someone from eas provide an answer as, AMHA, it depends on what kind of interface you would like for these mappings : json, "out of the box report", java, javascript...

Regards,

J.-M.

Wow, sorry I forgot a 'p' :

https://enterprise-architecture.org/os_download.php

Hi Marco, you'll have to install the opensource version as explained in the download page to study the whole metamodel. You'll need the following components : 'java 1.8', 'Essential Protege Ontology Editor', 'widgets', 'Meta-Model' (there is no reason to install tomcat or the viewer in your case). N...

Hi Carlo, I think you are looking for the "app_cap_supports_bus_cap", this relation/slot relates an app_cap to a bus_cap. According to the metamodel (Protége): there is not inverse relation for "app_cap_supports_bus_cap" so there is no direct relation from bus_cap to app_cap. Reg...

Hi,
subject should says all : it seems that java sources of the essential viewer are no more available since some (undetermined) revision ..

Do you plan to re-publish them, at least in some github repo ?

Regards,

J.-M.

Hi Alex, when you write "if I try to call the model something different from "essential_viewer'"", is it that you try to change the name of the war of else are you trying to change the publication url in the publish tab of protégé? Tip : The url you use for publication in the tab...

Hi Jean-Marie, Thanks very much for your post and commentary. As soon as I saw the note about the &quote character I realised what the problem was.......the names of the projects included in the programme had a common denominator - i.e. an abbreviated word that included the single quote charact...

You may give a try to the attached file. You'll need a recent version of essential, though, at it uses xstl 3.0 capabilities (maps/arrays) which should be more robust than the text oriented approach actually in place. Edit: I'm unable to attach the file (not sure why). You'll find it attached to the...

Hi Keith, essential viewer is sometimes not very resilient to syntax errors in its JSON data processing. Under Firefox I would go under the "Web developer Tools' to get a meaningful error message first; and then I'll try to search the culprit JSON data. With other browsers (chrome ? edge ?) , t...

Hi, ( see Sarah's post here : https://enterprise-architecture.org/blogs/new-view-style/ and the demo here : https://essentialviewer.com/demo/report?XML=reportXML.xml&XSL=enterprise/core_el_bus_cap_analysis_dashboard.xsl&LABEL=Business%20Capability%20Dashboard&cl=en-gb ) The sliding featu...

Hi Matt,

By any (mal)chance, did you uncheck the "System is published slot" on some view related instance, (maybe a predefined one) ?

Jean-Marie

Thanks Colin.

Hi,
I'm trying to understand the model part related to security. Not an easy task as there is no report or references -- to standards or method -- related to it.

Do any exemple/prepopulated demo model about security_capability/solution/deployment/policy/controls relationships exist ?

Jean-Marie

Hi Neil,

These calls to an external server do not behave well when essential viewer is used in protected network zones.

Could it be possible to make this feature conditional ? Maybe through a report variable ?



Jean-Marie.

Thanks for the answer.

J.-M.

Chris,

thanks for the pictures.

J.-M.

Hi Chris,

for those of us unable to use powerbi, would it be possible for you to post some screenshots demonstrating the kind of reports you defined through the connector ? Either here or on github ?

Thanks,

Jean-Marie.

A related question (problem ?), this time about Application Info Dependency Model :of composite / component app provider ... Still on the demo, Starting from the view "Info dep". for component "BlackCurve" https://essentialviewer.com/demo69/report?XML=reportXML.xml&PMA=store_...

Hi, As an example, in the demo viewer, "AMS Fleet Solutions" is a composite app. provider containing "BlackCurve" as an app component. See https://essentialviewer.com/demo69/report?XML=reportXML.xml&PMA=store_55_Class1190&cl=en-gb&XSL=application/core_al_app_provider_...

Hi, ReportXML.Xml is somewhat related to the "Experimental XML Format" for protege frame. See https://protegewiki.stanford.edu/wiki/PrF_UG_files_all#Experimental_XML_Format] . Thereis an xsd schema file at https://protege.stanford.edu/xml/schema/protege.xsd In brief the tag tree is followi...

Hi Tshitshi,

You may try the xsl files in the attached zip.

cd <essential_webapp_rootdir> then unzip the file (do some backup before) .

J.-M.

Hi Jonathan, Can I confirm: Is it strings with apostrophe's in - the ' character - that are being broken by these operations? eas:removeQuotesFromString 1) Strings with apostrophe are indeed broken by a call to eas:removeQuotesFromString if the strings are already escaped. n this case, the viewer is...

Hi,
Only countries are displayed in "Application Deployment Summary View".

This is not the case in "It Asset dashboard" where both geographical locations (point data) and geographical regions (polygon data) are displayed....

Regards,
J.-M.

HI,

FYI : it seems that the demo was updated las monday (September 02).

J.-M.

Hi, the roadmap enabled views are great! However these views are unusable in French as there are many problems with JSON string escaping in the released code (v6.5.3). So, I would like to know the intent of the following two XSL functions (defined in the file common/core_js_function.xsl) : eas:remov...

Hi Neil, The main reasons would be the new map data-type defined in xsl 3.0/xpath 3.1, and the associated serialization functions from/to json : fn:xml-to-json and fn:json-to-xml. As E.V. seems to rely more and more on javascript, this would simplify both native stylesheets and i18n handling. Jean-M...

Hi:

You may try to install/use Matomo :

https://matomo.org/why-matomo/

J.-M.

Forgot to attach the file ...

Hi Julian, > Then I would like to ask if and how it is possible to have a combination of pages, in particular >I would like to see in the same page both the application summary and the application dependency > mapping, is it possible or is it a dream? Not an optimal solution but you can embed an htm...

Hi,

adding a parameter isRenderAsJSString in the RenderMultiLangInstanceName (common/core_utilities.xsl) would ease json value escaping of protege strings.

Please see https://github.com/jfcjm/essential_view ... lities.xsl

Regards,

Jean-Marie

Hi, I found dubious calls to 'fn:translate' in information/core_il_data_object_model.xsl. It seems that the author intend was to use "point json expression" to access the value of slots in json e.g (in pseudo code) : dataObject.translation-in-json-point-notation-of (instance/name) ... inst...

Hi,

do you plan to switch to a more recent release of saxon ? maybe switching from xslt 2.0 to 3.0;

Regards,

Jean-Marie

OK, thanks.

Jean-Marie

Saxon allows to set a default collation before applying a tranbsformation : with the java API one must set the 'DEFAULT_COLLATION' feature in order to do so.... As an example with the cli : java -jar WEB-INF/lib/saxon9he.jar --defaultCollation:'http://saxon.sf.net/collation?lang=en-gb;case-order=upp...

Hi, it seems that no default collation is defined in the open source viewer. In this case saxon uses the "http://www.w3.org/2005/xpath-functions/collation/codepoint" collation. In this collation the sequence ('e','A','f', 'b', 'c', 'E','a') is sorted as A E a b c e f thus separating upper ...

Hi,

is the github repo planned to be used as an issue/pull request manager or is it better to post
stuff in the forum ?

Regards,
Jean-Marie

Hi, In the instance tab : in the "Class browser" part : search for the class ":APU-TO-APU-STATIC-RELATION" then in the "Instance Browser" go to the menu icons and open the last entry .. This entry allows you to choose which attributes are used as labels for instances of...

Hi dag, you may try the files i the zip file attached to this answer . These files try to correct two problems : 1) essential viewer is unable to display architecture elements whose name starts with a diacritic (such as 'É' or 'Ç' in french) 2) essential viewer is unable to use alternative localized...

Hi, As some essential classes got many attributes I played with the use of tabs in Protégé. You may find the result interesting at it allows to simplify editing forms... Screenshot at 2018-06-19 10-57-48.png Remark: it is possible to use these tabs only by configuration of classes/slots. The attache...

I'm not sure what is going on here but I added the following lines in core_bl_bus_cap_2_change_footprint.xsl after line 639 ($('.threeColModel_valueChainObject').css('background-color', '#c6bd9a')) and the view seems to work now : $('.threeColModel_valueChainObjectDouble').css('background-color', '#...

THe same for strategic roadmap views ....

Jonathan, we have an analog problem in French (as we use letter with diacritics, such as 'É') :) We have done some modification to the xsl code for catalogs in order to cope with this problem. I can post a patch/diff if you are interested. Please tell me. Regards, Jean-Marie We’ll take this away and...

Hi, some views relying on javascript are not rendering when quote characters are used in name or description instance. The attached file contains a patch against the following files : common/core_utilities.xsl : add a isRenderAsJSString parameter to "RenderInstanceLink", "RenderMultiL...

Acl problem ?

I'd check if files under tomcat/webapp are owned/readable/writable by
the tomcat process user.

@+

BTW, une tentative de traduction française pour le viewer :

https://sourcesup.renater.fr/plugins/sc ... e7;hb=HEAD

@+,

Jean-Marie

Hi Sarah, Your answer is a real help for the graphical view on org structure (business/core_bl_bus_org_structure_model.xsl). But I think that @tmacfarlane was talking about the organisation summary view (enterprise/core_el_group_actor_summary.xsl). As far as I know there is no means to parametrise t...

The attached files should correct the problem you encounter.

You should copy core_utilities.xsl under webapp/common and core_el_strategic_roadmap2.xsl under webapp/enterprise.


J.-M.

About the diacritic issue in reports : we have created a patch against release v6 viewer.,the patch is available here : https://sourcesup.renater.fr/frs/download.php/file/5251/equivletters.patch Feel free to integrate it in the open-source (GPLed) release ... J.-M. PS: you may see related changes by...

We also find an issue with "catalogue" reports when item names are starting with a diacritic (e.g É,È, ...) . See urls below for screenshots. Our solution was 1) to add "letters equivalence class" in the language file, and then 2) to modify related reports... Incomplete catalog: ...

Hi, you'll find an attempt to localize Essential for French at https://sourcesup.renater.fr/frs/download.php/latestfile/2064/essentialv6-fr.zip/ This zip should contains both an "fr-fr.xml" file and an adapted v6 metamodel. Feel free to integrate it in the essential open-source distrib.......

Thanks Jonathan for taking over .... I would ask/remark one more thing, while we are at the Product related parts of essential : How does it come about that Product_types and Products are both in the Business Logical Layer (both are subclasses of the Logical Business) ? I would expect Products to be...

Hi,
You have to use the Product_Type class to enter business services under essential

See the following description
http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/ ... _Type.html

Hi, I'm currently working with strategic roadmap models and I noticed some discrepancies between the metamodel and the way related reports are using it. My problem is that related reports (milestone summary, strategic plan summary) do not display the KPI values for impacted objectives. I saw that th...

It is not possible to browse from application provider summary to the database dependencies. There is a missing link in "linkClasses" for 'Information_Representation' The following diff should correct that : diff --git a/application/core_al_app_provider_summary.xsl b/application/core_al_ap...

Hi Jonathan, In terms of ways forward, an option would be to produce an alternative view that uses something like the Plant UML rendering component (as we do for the Business Process Flows) to produce a PNG that can be zoomed, printed etc. Jonathan SVG would be a better format than PNG for that. Mor...

jonathan.carter wrote: This view looks excellent.

Except that I'm not really sure that a "SAML identity provider" wouldn't be better described in the technology_layer.

Jonathan,
Thanks for your detailed answer. I had no time yet to elaborate a reply. I will do it later.

J.-M.

Note: I'm a rather old fan of Jambalaya .

So, we advanced on this.... Now we get a view with (directed) radial graph with appProviders as nodes and flowing infoRepresentations as edges[/list] The graph can be difficult to read when edges (infoReprensentations) are too numerous thus we also added a control panel in order to filter unwanted e...

This error maybe tomcat related.

I'd check owner rights for ${TOMCAT_ROOT}/webapp/essential_viewer directory :
is the tomcat user able to write files in it ?

Some of this already works at the meta model level, e.g. the Facet Constraints tab is helpful when trying to identify instances that do not comply with the constraints of the meta model. I think what you describe here is more about working at the model level (rather than meta model). I was thinking...

It would be handy to have some way to check constraints against the architecture. Something such as: For each information I flowing from appProvider A to appProvider B then both A. an B. have to use I. The first step would be to describe such rules in plain english ... Another step would be to use P...

EAS chose to use the frame model for the essential ontology. That's fine as the open world logic associated with owl may be too open for well definite entities such as those defined in an E.A. But .. in some case it would be fine to have an rdf model of the ontology at hand *in the viewer*. Some use...

We would like to have a global view of the information flow betweenn application providers. We started some development using radial graph, starting with the project interaction view already present in essential. As the starting global view may be too dense: we are adding some controls to the report...

The URL you gave lists the services. so I understand the suspicious style sheet is "core_bl_bus_svc_interaction_model.xsl". This stylesheet worked out of the box for me (I did not modify it). So this view should work if you follow the modelling requirements described in the manual page : h...

Hi, In order for this view to have some content you have to classify instances of the 'Technology_Capability' class with relevant instances of the 'Taxonomy Terms' classs. "Relevant instance' for this view are Taxonomy Terms whose name is prefixed by 'Technology Capability Layers'. Say you have...

Hi,
I had to modify some stylesheet and would like to know which report you're talking about.

The name of the used stylesheet is in the url of the report you are trying to view . Can you post this url or at least its the parameter part (after the '?').



J.-M.

Hi, Please correect me if I'm wrong but it seems that you are somewhat new to essential .... In brief : you don't need a database to start using it. Did you read the tutorial at http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/getting-started-docs/51-open-architecture-model ? If you are working Stand Alone, s...

Hi, Thanks for this. It's quite similar to ideas we've looked at developing. As there is no technical roadmap I decided it was better to develop this tool than to wait for a new viewer release :). The license is similar to the GPL so you may reuse the code in next releases ... Be warned that I'm no...

jmk. Thanks for your response. I figured out what the problem was (as always it seems pretty obvious once you find it :oops: ). Fine ... FYI, just in case you'd like to add some search capabilities to your viewer you may have a look to the following article : http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/...

Thanks for the quick response. Unfortunately the linkclasses variable is not the problem as I already had this class in the list: <xsl:variable name="linkClasses" select="('Business_Objective','Business_Capability')" /> fail :( Also, the purpose of the report is to show our key ...

Hi, Hi, I have created a new report to show the relationships between business objectives and business capabilities. Fine I'll take it if you release it :) [ .. snipp ...] The report works fine but the link to the next report (Capability Summary) does not. The generated URL http://localhost:8080/ess...

Hi, you'll find attached an xslt file doing a search of one word in the reportXML.xml file. As other stylesheets in ev3, this file may be run with the a PMA parameter in the invocation URL. If the PMA parameter is defined then the stylesheet cleans the value, downcases it and then search if the resu...

Thanks for your help. I do have two installs one on Win XP and a second on Windows Server 208 R2. First, beware that I never installed essential on a microsoft machine... Nevertheless I see at least four things you should try :) I tried clearing the browser cache but that didn't work. Then I replac...

I have installed Essential both as stand-alone and multi-user. ..... Some users experience the problem, others don't. I have tested both with IE and Firefox . As this depends on users I would first clear the navigators cache between each attempt ... Moreover, I think menu displays are driven by the...

Hi We defined 1 Group Actor as our parent, with it's Parent Organization being itself This self-reference seems dubious to me, i would try without it. We added that Actor to the EA Support-Essential Viewer-Report_Constant-Org Model - Root Organization. Can you supply us with any more information? We...

One use of such parameter could be, in the future, to allow for output of archimate like diagrams through the stereotype uml mechanism...

I just noticed that plantuml uses skin parameters to taylor its output. Skins may for example change generated (uml) components color, size or shape. Would it be possible to add some capability to essential in order to parameterize skins plantuml outputs ? I think this may be done through either an ...

The Product class has a slot called 'product_implemented_by_process' which relates the Product to the Physical Process that is used to deliver that Product. OK. Physical Processes have no flow to define HOW they work - that is defined at the Logical level - but describe who is performing the proces...

The roadmap http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/about/roadmap seems out of date to me.

Will it be possible to update it ?

Thanks,

Jean-Marie.

rhimbo wrote:Hello all,

1. Is Apache Tomcat required for standalone installation (I believe so from reading the standalone installation instructions

Yes

rhimbo wrote: 2. Which version will work, Tomcat 6 or 7 or either?

Tomcat v6 will work. Not tried with v7.

J.-M.

We have some tools that we have built to extract content from repositories for the purpose of importing it into others, e.g. a new baseline version. We welcome any contributions and in this case, probably the simplest approach would be for you to submit the repository (Protege files) that you have ...

I entered a bunch of open source technology products in my model and I wonder 1) how I may add these products either to the example or in the baseline. 2) If a specific license will be needed for external submissions or if the GPL will also cover initial data entered in the example/initial models. D...

We can use the Product class ...... ... Product type lets us take this up a level of abstraction so that we can understand things like where we have more than one Product of the same type. e.g. I could be an electronics organisation with a Product Type of Mobile Phone and then have Product instance...