Hi Elena,
In the Import Spec the Simple Instance that you have created for the Supplier needs to be above the Application Simple Instance - if it is below it will not pick it up. You can move it up by selecting it and clicking on the Move Up button.
Could that be the issue?
Sarah
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- 23 Nov 2023, 16:33
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Launchpad v5 - Next Version
- Replies: 3
- Views: 17770
- 06 Apr 2023, 07:25
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: customise meta-model to reflect architecture standards
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5856
Re: customise meta-model to reflect architecture standards
Hi Vivek, We manage application standards by adding the standard to the Application Provider Role – so you are setting the standard against the usage of the app. This allows you to say, for example, that App A is our standard for Employee Onboarding but App B is our standard for Payroll Management. ...
- 14 Mar 2023, 15:29
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process RTO/RPO Mapping issue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7141
Re: Business Process RTO/RPO Mapping issue
Hi, On business process you populate the business criticality field, which is linked to the required RTO/RPO of an application and so populates the view. There is not an RTO/RPO field on business process. You can follow the instructions for setting up the view and capturing the data on the Essential...
- 25 Aug 2022, 09:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Documentation link not working https://university.enterprise-architecture.org/
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7513
Re: Documentation link not working https://university.enterprise-architecture.org/
The links should work, they are published and are not private. Are you still experiencing this issue?
Sarah
Sarah
- 29 Apr 2022, 14:00
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Contract currency showing in $ not £
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6133
Re: Contract currency showing in $ not £
Hi,
This is a bug in that the view is showing the default currency and not picking up the specified currency. We will add it to our backlog to be resolved.
Sarah
This is a bug in that the view is showing the default currency and not picking up the specified currency. We will add it to our backlog to be resolved.
Sarah
- 09 Oct 2020, 09:01
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How 'durable' is the Internal ID?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6383
Re: How 'durable' is the Internal ID?
Hi,
Yes you are right, the Internal ID that is created when an instance is created in Essential is constant and does not change when the instance is updated. It also remains the same if you copy one repository to another and retrieve an instance from the repository via the REST API.
Sarah
Yes you are right, the Internal ID that is created when an instance is created in Essential is constant and does not change when the instance is updated. It also remains the same if you copy one repository to another and retrieve an instance from the repository via the REST API.
Sarah
- 14 Sep 2020, 14:41
- Forum: General
- Topic: Essential University User Group
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13880
Re: Essential University User Group
I'll ask the group and come back to you - it may be after the next meeting..
Sarah
Sarah
- 17 Aug 2020, 13:34
- Forum: General
- Topic: Essential University User Group
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13880
Essential University User Group
A number of our Universities and Higher Learning Institutions are getting together to form an Essential University User Group, to share ideas and best practise about Essential and EA in general. If you are a university or higher education organisation using Essential and would be interested in joini...
- 17 Aug 2020, 11:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Where has import gone?!
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6606
Re: Where has import gone?!
Hi Angela, Have you looked at the import utility tutorial which walks you through the setup and use of the import utility? You can access it via the link here - https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/docs/import_utility/import_utility/#import-utility-for-essential-open-source. The viewer links are ...
- 16 Jan 2020, 17:25
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Process Family
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7926
Re: Process Family
Hi,
Apologies, the launchpad is using a deprecated slot, this changed prior to Launchpad 4 and we had failed to update it. The import spec has been uploaded now, so if you download the new import spec from the original link and use that it will work.
Sarah
Apologies, the launchpad is using a deprecated slot, this changed prior to Launchpad 4 and we had failed to update it. The import spec has been uploaded now, so if you download the new import spec from the original link and use that it will work.
Sarah
- 08 Jan 2020, 09:03
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Launchpad v5 - Next Version
- Replies: 3
- Views: 17770
Launchpad v5 - Next Version
Hi All,
We're just starting work on the next version of the Launchpad and we're thinking of adding extensions for Lifecycles and Suppliers.
Would be very interested to hear your views and any suggestions you have for how we can improve it.
Sarah
We're just starting work on the next version of the Launchpad and we're thinking of adding extensions for Lifecycles and Suppliers.
Would be very interested to hear your views and any suggestions you have for how we can improve it.
Sarah
- 23 Aug 2019, 17:24
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Application by host country view
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8887
Re: Application by host country view
In this view the role Application User is used to identify the Applications that are used by organisations and the link to their site and location. If you are doing it manually you will need to set up an actor (the org) to role (Application User) relation and map it to the application. Alternatively...
- 04 Jul 2019, 11:10
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: A few questions about the business layer
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8692
Re: A few questions about the business layer
Hi Brendan, 1) Group Actors to Bus Caps - we could do this in a number of way: - via processes - so an organisation performs a process and a process supports a capability] - via a Stakeholder - all classes have the stakeholder slot where you can associate an Actor to Role Relation - an Actor playing...
- 22 May 2019, 11:14
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Country wise Applications implementation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10821
Re: Country wise Applications implementation
This depends if it is a different instance of the application - if it is the same deployed in lots of places then it should be just the application name, if it is a different configuration then it is a different application and so you would need a different name, in which case you could use "ap...
- 22 May 2019, 11:07
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business ->Application-> Application - including Data
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11927
Re: Business ->Application-> Application - including Data
Hi, We do hold the information in the meta model but we don't currently have a view that shows it end to end. We have the application information dependency model that shows the dependencies between applications, this uses the static application architecture model. You can drill down to an Informati...
- 22 May 2019, 10:57
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: IT Asset Dashboard view - queries
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21682
Re: IT Asset Dashboard view - queries
Hi Rajaraman, You need to classify the applications as left, right and middle in this view - we are in the process of swapping the classifications and for now both are used in different views. So, as with the other you need a parent and child and you need to add a classification of left, right and m...
- 22 May 2019, 10:47
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Application Reference Model - appearance
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7507
Re: Application Reference Model - appearance
Hi Rajaraman,
You do need to have two levels of capability, so you do need a parent and a child, and the parent needs to be mapped to the classification.
Hope that helps
Sarah
You do need to have two levels of capability, so you do need a parent and a child, and the parent needs to be mapped to the classification.
Hope that helps
Sarah
- 09 May 2019, 12:53
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: IT Asset Dashboard view - queries
- Replies: 10
- Views: 21682
Re: IT Asset Dashboard view - queries
Hi Rajaraman, There is no direct link between capabilities and sites. Note that capabilities are conceptual and sites are physical so this would be incorrect. We link through other relationships, for example, the link between a business capability and a site will be via the process, either the locat...
- 11 Apr 2019, 10:43
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: achieving data flow diagram
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7697
Re: achieving data flow diagram
Hi, Currently the first view you show does not have data, although we will be adding this. The Data Provider model does look at data from a provider perspective. At the moment we can only do it in that context, although when we update the first view to show information exchange this will meet that r...
- 11 Apr 2019, 10:39
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Data Capture and Uploading a file through portal
- Replies: 11
- Views: 25743
Re: Data Capture and Uploading a file through portal
Hi, Can you clarify what you are trying to do? Are you looking to create a link to an external document from an Essential view, for example, in the Application Summary link off to a document that is stored elsewhere in your environment? Essential can do this, or you can embed an image in the page, s...
- 22 Jan 2019, 16:54
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Information Architecture Metamodel
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7650
Re: Information Architecture Metamodel
Hi,
We have updated the documentation and you should find that all the classes are now documented.
Regards
The Essential Project Team
We have updated the documentation and you should find that all the classes are now documented.
Regards
The Essential Project Team
- 22 Jan 2019, 16:51
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: business svc to application
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7854
Re: business svc to application
Hi Rajaraman, The meta model diagram you are showing is the Business Function Service Model, but the view you are showing is the Business Service Interaction Model. If you have modelled correctly the Business Function Service Model will show the application in the view. Regards The Essential Project...
- 05 Jul 2018, 12:03
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Value streams
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13077
Re: Value streams
Hi Dag, We are currently working on both meta-model extensions and additional views covering not only Value Streams, but also Customer Journeys. We are looking at linking Customer Journeys and Value Streams/Stages to existing classes such as Business Capabilities, Processes and Applications to under...
- 26 Jun 2018, 12:16
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: core_bl_bus_cap_model.xsl empty boxes appearing
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3110
Re: core_bl_bus_cap_model.xsl empty boxes appearing
Hi,
Have you altered the view code, as I've never seen this in the bus cap view? If so, can you upload the code and we can have a look. Or, do you have any orphan capabilities that are linked to parents?
Sarah
Have you altered the view code, as I've never seen this in the bus cap view? If so, can you upload the code and we can have a look. Or, do you have any orphan capabilities that are linked to parents?
Sarah
- 26 Jun 2018, 12:04
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Importing activity does not reflect new changes (new slot)
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5761
Re: Importing activity does not reflect new changes (new slot)
Hi, I’ve tested both the scenarios you mention using a local set up and it all works fine. Publish to Test Viewer If you have added the URL for the viewer when you add the repository in Import Settings then, when you click the 'Publish to Test Viewer' button, it will update the viewer with the insta...
- 21 Jun 2018, 11:58
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: download current repository
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2542
Re: download current repository
Hi, Just want to confirm what you are asking. When you set up the import utility you add a repository in Target Environment in the Import Settings tab. Once you have done this you then run your imports against this 'target repository' - it adds all the instances from your spreadsheet to the 'target ...
- 15 Feb 2018, 13:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Persistent timeout when dowloading Spreadsheet Data Capture Template
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2464
Re: Persistent timeout when dowloading Spreadsheet Data Capture Template
Hi Tshitshi,
The data capture templates are for internal use only and shouldn't have been published in the demo. Apologies, we have removed them now.
Regards
Sarah
The data capture templates are for internal use only and shouldn't have been published in the demo. Apologies, we have removed them now.
Regards
Sarah
- 31 Oct 2017, 11:15
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Access Levels
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5168
Re: Access Levels
Hi Jason, In Open Source Essential the access control available in the viewer is as my colleague Neil described in his earlier email: In the Viewer (which by its very nature is read-only), there is no built in security in the application however it's easy to add some basic Tomcat security on this. S...
- 31 Oct 2017, 11:03
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: business capability chain
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8272
Re: business capability chain
Hi Jamal, In terms of a view, we do not have a current view that uses the capability chain; we have the capability in the meta model but we have not had demand for a view as yet, although it is possible that other users have built their own. We are always looking to expand our view library, so if yo...
- 06 Oct 2017, 14:20
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How to model business lifecycle?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7890
Re: How to model business lifecycle?
Hi, Lifecycles are held in EA Support/Enumerations, and for this I would suggest that you create a new subclass of Lifecycle_Status called Well_Lifecycle_Status. Also create a new slot on the Business Process Type Class called supported_well_lifecycles with allowed classes set to Well_Lifecycle_Stat...
- 05 Oct 2017, 09:46
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Process hierarchy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 11385
Re: Process hierarchy
Hi Stepan, A process can have sub processes, which you model using the business process flow, although you don't actually have to model the flow if this is not required. Each process can be tied to an application in the physical process, so if you model sub processes you can tie a different applicat...
- 29 Aug 2017, 15:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Multi-level parent child views
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14207
Re: Multi-level parent child views
Hi both,
I think you have discovered a view bug that we were unaware of. As a work around you can use the Organisation Structure view and we will look to get this fixed.
Sarah
I think you have discovered a view bug that we were unaware of. As a work around you can use the Organisation Structure view and we will look to get this fixed.
Sarah
- 21 Aug 2017, 09:26
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Multi-level parent child views
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14207
Re: Multi-level parent child views
Hi, You need to set the root organisation in the repository - so the view knows where to start navigating from in effect. To do this, in the repository go to EA Support/Essential Viewer/Report Configuration Then find Org Model - Root Organisation in the instance list and add the top level of your or...
- 14 Oct 2016, 15:23
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
- Replies: 9
- Views: 23346
Re: Business Process Flow Diagram
Hi Joseph, Yes I was able to access the examples. We can capture the majority of the detail you show, however, we cannot add external information and text such as the red box round a number of steps with the text 'current process does not assign a role', although we can capture notes against individ...
- 13 Oct 2016, 11:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
- Replies: 9
- Views: 23346
Re: Business Process Flow Diagram
Hi Jospeh, Glad to hear that the initial flow is working. I'll cover your points in order: - Re the cross functional flows, can you send me an example so I can see exactly what you are trying to achieve - Importing Visio directly into the tool - at the moment no, although we do have this as a high p...
- 10 Oct 2016, 16:09
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
- Replies: 9
- Views: 23346
Re: Business Process Flow Diagram
Hi Joseph,
This often indicates that there is an error in the modelling. Could you post a screenshot of your business process flow, from within the logical business model, and then I will be able to provide some more info.
Regards
Sarah
This often indicates that there is an error in the modelling. Could you post a screenshot of your business process flow, from within the logical business model, and then I will be able to provide some more info.
Regards
Sarah
- 07 Oct 2016, 14:13
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Applications and their documentation
- Replies: 4
- Views: 15492
Re: Applications and their documentation
Hi Bradley, We would usually link off to external documents using the "External Document Link" that is included in each class - this allows you to add the name and url of any documents associated with, for example, an application. This is accessible from the summary view pages. Would this ...
- 07 Oct 2016, 14:07
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
- Replies: 9
- Views: 23346
Re: Business Process Flow Diagram
Hi Joseph,
Have a look at this article in the tutorials section of the website - it should tell you exactly what you need to do - http://www.essentialproject.org/busines ... -modelling
Regards
Sarah
Have a look at this article in the tutorials section of the website - it should tell you exactly what you need to do - http://www.essentialproject.org/busines ... -modelling
Regards
Sarah
- 04 Aug 2012, 17:02
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Training / Example for 3.0??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4261
Re: Training / Example for 3.0??
Hi Paul,
I have responded to your email, but am guessing that it must have got lost in your spam filter. I will re-send it now, maybe you can check your spam if you still don't receive it.
Sarah
I have responded to your email, but am guessing that it must have got lost in your spam filter. I will re-send it now, maybe you can check your spam if you still don't receive it.
Sarah
- 21 May 2012, 08:34
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: 100 Out of the Box Views
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3540
Re: 100 Out of the Box Views
Hi Juan, We're glad you like the look of Version 3! You can find a list of all the views in the Version 3 Release Note - look at the Essential Viewer Section. Your post has made us think that this list should be more prominent and we will look at making the list available elsewhere on the site. Sarah
- 20 Feb 2012, 12:23
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Component Heat Map View
- Replies: 7
- Views: 9321
Re: Business Component Heat Map View
Hi Rungsima, Thanks for you post. This is an older view which will be updated and available with the v3 release that is due shortly. Further information on that release can be found in The Essential Roadmap blog http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/blogs/2011/12/19/the-essential-roadmap/ . Regards...
- 09 Jun 2010, 21:33
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Meta Model Interconnections
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4453
Re: Meta Model Interconnections
Hi, I'm glad you like the diagrams, we felt they would be really useful to try to explain the meta model. We first looked at trying to show everything but we found it impossible without making the diagrams overly complex. What we have done, therefore, is to show a series of simplified views from a n...
- 30 Mar 2010, 12:44
- Forum: General
- Topic: Privacy Policy
- Replies: 0
- Views: 68363
Privacy Policy
The Essential Project is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and community members. Any personal information that you supply to The Essential Project in the course of using this web site is stored securely. From time to time we may send emails to our registered users advising of essenti...
- 16 Feb 2010, 15:12
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Finding Protege and Java
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4535
Re: Finding Protege and Java
Hi David, Currently Essential Architecture Manager does not support Protege 4.x., and this may be the cause of your problems. You should download the latest version of Protege 3, which is linked to from the downloads page of our website. Hopefully this will resolve your problem, but if you have any ...
- 01 Feb 2010, 17:31
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Need Protégé installation assistance:
- Replies: 9
- Views: 7593
Re: Need Protégé installation assistance:
Hi, It would be possible to set up a web session with you, however, free support is only available through the forums so this would be chargeable. If you wish to pursue this option could you contact us via a services request form. If you wish to pursue this via the forums that should be possible, bu...
- 01 Feb 2010, 13:28
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Capabilities & Processes
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4120
Re: Business Capabilities & Processes
Hi Gary, Thanks for your post. Originally we thought that a process would only support one capability as the process defines 'how' the capability is realised, however, we agree that this constraint could cause problems in practice and we will, therefore, alter the meta model as you suggest. We will ...
- 02 Dec 2009, 08:59
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ECP-5 Skills modelling in Business Layer
- Replies: 14
- Views: 273648
Re: ECP-5 Skills modelling in Business Layer
A few words of caution about making sure that this doesn't become too complex. It is not too hard to add this extra information. In order to make it available, however, the relationship is no longer a simple connection between e.g. an Actor and a Skill. Now, you need to also define the instances of ...
- 15 Sep 2009, 17:16
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Platform roadmap
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6911
Re: Platform roadmap
Hi Kolja, No we haven’t asked them to load the Essential repository yet, as that would require them to install our plugins, and really we need to have our own version of Web Protégé running first, which we don’t want to do until it is in a stable version, but we’ll keep our eye on it. AWS is an exce...
- 15 Sep 2009, 14:04
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Platform roadmap
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6911
Re: Platform roadmap
Hi Kolja, We are definitely keen to provide facilities for web based access to the Essential Architecture Mnager. Fortunately, our good friends at Stanford University (developers of Protege) are developing Web Protégé, which we plan to use to provide this facility. At the moment it is only available...
- 12 Sep 2009, 13:23
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Simplified and Graphical modelling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 102510
Re: Simplified and Graphical modelling
Aaron,
Thanks, don't hesitate to get back to us if you have any queries or quandries.
Sarah
Thanks, don't hesitate to get back to us if you have any queries or quandries.
Sarah
- 09 Sep 2009, 08:21
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Demo Videos
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3252
Re: Demo Videos
Thanks for your post. The demo video represents a view of the various scenarios that Essential may be used to assist with. The particular report you refer to, Project Technology Strategy Alignment, was really developed as a proof-of-concept to demonstrate some of the analytical views that could be p...
- 08 Sep 2009, 14:55
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Simplified and Graphical modelling
- Replies: 4
- Views: 102510
Re: Simplified and Graphical modelling
Hi Aaron, Thanks for your post. To answer your first question, an incremental approach to populating the model is very much what we advocate and recommend. Our approach is to complete as much of the meta model as you can, with details relevant to what you are modelling. If you don’t have the informa...
- 24 Aug 2009, 14:22
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: current state vs future state
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5071
Re: current state vs future state
Hi, The way to capture different states, e.g future, current etc, is as you suggest. Basically, you create a model, or architecture, that reflects the nature of the elements in a particular state. This could be current state, future state and any interim stages required to move from one to the other...
- 18 Aug 2009, 10:22
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Exporting data for use in other tools?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3742
Re: Exporting data for use in other tools?
Hi, Sorry for the delay in replying, we have been hampered by the holiday season! We have an Integration Tool, currently in beta testing, which is designed to allow importing or synchronisation of information between Essential and other tools. In fact, we have used this tool to synchronise informati...
- 22 Apr 2009, 09:42
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Sample Repository
- Replies: 8
- Views: 12427
Re: Essential Sample Repository
Thanks for your response. We are aiming to have the first release of the sample repository available this Friday and have, in fact, based it on a fictional financial services organisation. See Jason's blog for more information http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/blogs/ . Once it is available, if ...
- 11 Mar 2009, 17:43
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Meta Model Extensions
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4282
Re: Meta Model Extensions
Gaurav, Although anything can be changed, we would not recommend making changes to the core meta-classes of the Essential Meta-Model as such changes would need to be reflected all the way through the Essential Modeller and in the reports in the Essential Viewer. In addition, if you alter the core me...