Hi, We have been using the business strategy footprint but have now seen some data clashes with how the Strategic Goals Summary works. The Strategy Footprint looks at Business_Objective but not at the Business_Goal class. The Strategic Goals Summary seems to look at both but dosnt bring back multipl...

Hi All,

Has anyone put together any reports in this area. We are looking for inspiration to demonstrate the impact of strategy on skill gaps. An image or two would be great if you have put anything together.

Regards
Colin

Hi Matt,

Have you checked you technology product role class for the relatisonships between component and technology provider. You will probally find there is a relationship for everything shown as active / blue.

Regards
Colin

Hi, This is a simple report, that works in cloud and open source, we use to show what is loaded in the repository. We use it when we load data using our version of the launchpad and it shows for each key classes, what has been loaded, counts and a link though to instances. There is no additional req...

Hi Over the next few months we will be sharing our custom models. These are NON-STANDARD and are not supported by EAS. This report was designed to create an easy to view current and target state using standard classes. You will have to change three lines in the report by adding in your class for cur...

Hi,

Is it this type of view:
or this
Regards
Colin

Hi, I am considering sharing our entire library of custom reports as a co-develop activity. There are a few hundred but probally about 30 that are structurally sound. If you give me an idea of what you are trying to create we may have something close and i'm happy to share that report. Note: We have...

Hi, The dup files may load a capability vie (all capabilities) etc but not the drill through detail you see in the repoprts. For this you need to populate via the launchpad spreadsheets. I would suggest you do the following. Step 1 1) Download the demo repository. 2) Publish it to a duplicate instan...

Hi,

The link is incorect..

https://www.ucisa.ac.uk/Groups/Enterpri ... lity-Model

Regards

Hi, There are multiple ways to change the view styling and dependant on how far you want to go, what report, what element you want to change. 1) Styling chnages depending on what Viewer_Styling you choose. Primary and Secondary colors can be cahnged and you can create your own style. We use a predom...

Add an image though attachments below box then place inline, use preview to ensure it was picked up

Colin

Hi Jonathan, I'm on a windows system. We are busy preparing for our migration to the cloud by getting our oun source version up to date and ready. Only hit the problem when we started adding the last two eup files to version up 11. No issue with the dup file we applied. I have followed the guide and...

Hi I have started getting classloader error when using the essential update service or upload. Wondering if this has been reported before: "Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.LinkageError: JAXB 2.1 API is being loaded from the bootstrap classloader, but this RI (from jar...

Hi, Most common issue is the permisions on the directory ie: read only vs write on the unpacked viewer directory. A report.xml file is create and placed in that directory at root. Or the path name in the publishing service (essential Viewer) is wrong and lastly there is a memory issue but sounds lik...

Ni Neil,

Definately still an issue when behind firewalls.

Regards
Colin

Hi Chris, I will check with the team if they have time to scrub. We are a government agency and my security and risk group use these reports as a direct publication. We use full integration to an active directory and we embed into each page a per user permissions view and usage analytics. These repo...

Hi, If you paste an example to your last question. Our use case for interest. My CISO uses this report to report on our risks so we have focused on ensuring that the data matches across application provider, physical process, technology family, however: We report on business risk! - we have modified...

Hi,

Just a suggestion. There were some % in some of the descriptions which the viewer took exception. Do a string search for %, &, #, which we never use and always remove unless the # is used in the color schemes.

Regards
Colin

Hi

Did you download the last version of the security posture report in the forum?

Colin

Hi, The All screen is only reading data from the cve file, the filter is then applied as a match and what is returned is the cve data with the impact as the link back to your actual data. Your data looks correct but in the cve file it excludes: "cpe23Uri" : "cpe:2.3:a:sitecore:experie...

Hi, You have some grammatical errors in the report eg: line 59: <xsl:variable name="techProdListAsTableCatalogue" select="eas:get_report_by_name('Core: Technology Product Cataloigue as Table')"/> Dosn't change the load routine but I thought you might want to know. Regards Colin W...

Hi, for what it is worth. We experienced the same behavior on the Application_Provider, Business _Capability and a few others where there were multiple relationships. This was a few years back and we threw a lot of resource at it as we had 10 users across a business capability model for a $80 billio...

Hi, There is always impact if any library's change so the advice would be to maintain a section with css / js links within the user folder. We do not modify any of the core. But as an institution with over 5000 applications and 30 organisations the core structures don't work. You can achieve scale w...

Hi, Our approach to this has been to identify key views where the full conceptual to physical design would be impacted by lack of data or maturity. An example would be where we needed physical process, function and service across all applications, logical tech linkages etc. We then defined around a ...

Hi Glyn, My team have created a few which describes how we build our complex capability models as these need an understanding of the different div structures. As most standard reports have the same structure I don't think a video would help. My team has a standard template we use based on: 1) Has a ...

Hi

I created the xml file in my root folder but I would suggest you put it in the user folder, which I do for all our custom reports. Mine is working fine so I assume that it is not finding the file in your case and you need to fix the link.
Regards
Colin

Hi Neil, #Solved# Need to comment out the line <!--<xsl:variable name="updateFile" select="document('https://s3.amazonaws.com/essential-updater/viewerLatestVersion.xml')"/>--> and create a local version of the xml file <xsl:variable name="updateFile" select="docume...

Hi Neil, I am having the same problem and had already edited out the version checker. I am on a corporate network but over the past 10 years I have never had a waiting (TTFB) of 56s. It is obviously a timeout of sorts but cannot find it anywhere. I'm assuming there is an administration setting someo...

Hi, Might be drivel or something useful in here: For whats its worth, my comments, having gone through a similar exercise. Firstly: The Application_Provider should be see as a conceptual object. Its not technical and typically described by a local name. Changes against the application occur as a tec...

Hi Joe, If Tomcat is running then your war file hasn't been fully deployed. I would suggest that you: 1) Shutdown Apache 2) Delete your viewer folder in webapps (assume you haven't got any customised reports) 3) Cleat browser cache / restart computer 4) Put viewer war in webapps folder / restart apa...

Hi,

I would also check that 'if' you copied and pasted the value you didn't leave a space before or after, that seems to annoy protege. I fond it easier to edit the protege.properties file.

Colin

Hi,

It's actually a very clever design. It means you can pre-create all of the Capability's and then add them to the applications as required. That way you have a full list of avilable and you can use them for future architecture states.

Colin

Hi,

I can't see in the models but did you add "Required Technology Capability" to the application provider?

Colin

Hi, "Asked & Answered" We published all projects then imported into the new structure the resulting report xml with a modified xsl script to deal with our modifications. Used the error messages on each import to identify changes required. We have re implemented some but not all of our ...

Hi All, We have become quite skilled at using the import utility as well as building a comprehensive list of excel exports and this is a primary means of uploading / downloading data -however- With the latest update to 506 our imports have stopped working. We do have modifications against our meta m...

Hi Jonathan I tried it again and got it into an XMI model. Not sure what was going on, gremlin maybe. Argo worked fine and I have access to a large plotter so all good. Pity the XMI version is so old (1.2 UML 1.4), but having said that Argo does everything we really need. We also have an extensive d...

Hi Jonathan You post jogged my memory and I decided to do a uml model update, however, on xmi export (using xmi backend) the import failed to load into ArgoUML or Altovo. Have you tried this sonce the update. I know I had issues with the version 1.2 last time but this export gave a number of slot er...

Hi Thomas, Yep, we use D3 as the visualisation of Essential Data with (dendrogram, treemap, etc) WE have used http://vizuly.io/product/radial-progress/?demo=d3js in a few scenarios. You will need to do some json work initially although we built our later reports by building a report.xml2 with a subs...

Hi Thomas,

We created a number of these reports using d3. It is easier to build network views and very quick.

https://d3js.org/

Colin

No, you need to define what type of stakeholder you want to show on the report, for example: You may want to have: Application Owner IT Contact Business Owner or even users of the application, these are all types of stakeholders that are defined through their relationship. There is already a report ...

Ok,

Looks correct, in application_provider when you select the stakeholder do you select the instance of actor to role or and individual?

Hi, You need to have set up a relationship which is an actor to role relationship. IE: John Peter as IT Contact. The single stakeholder IE: Individual is not seen as a stakeholder without the link. If you need to differentiate owner, contact, business owner etc you could create a new slot which make...

Hi Thomas

You shouldn't be entering a name. When you select the application provider protege will build the name. This is the case in most of the graphical classes. The name slot you are entering the Name into is really a relationship slot. Check out the details int eh clsinstance tab.

Colin

Hi,

Did you go into protege project/configure tab and enable the report publishing tab?

Colin

Hi Thomas, Something I have had to work through and there are a few causes: 1) Memory - Java Heap Size setting in protoge. Should be at least a 1gb, I allocate 4. Read Neils post on this. 2) Created duplicate slots or instances. If you have duplicate instance data across multiple slots used in a sin...

Hi Neil, We can close this topic. I created a set of scripts to check for issues. At one point we had a PAL constraint that stopped duplicate slot values, ie:Duplicate instances used in slots. We removed this constraint and our admin ppl created duplicates. On the update script it was hanging when i...

Hi Neil,

Jason has my new details but I will contact him directly as he understands our meta model.

Thanks
Colin

Hi Neil, When I apply the update it freezes after applying Common Functions.. When applying the update pack.. produces no errors at all.. does not update the protoge or any other logs. The only major changes we have made are the packs we bought last year from you for the risk and excel upload. We ha...

Hi Neil, I had tried most of this before and I gave up on: 64 bit Java Installed, Allocated 8gb to Java, Nothing else running: As per log, I hit the garbage collector / heap error again. I will try again allocating more than 8gb but can't see why it would need that much. FINE: Exception caught -- ja...

Hi Neil, Yes that is correct, it is the EUP upgrade. We are also having an issue with publishing to the report server and we are wondering if this could be related. We are running 16gb memory on 64b machine. The log that I have uploaded only gets generated every other time, normally it just hangs. C...

HI, WE have a pprj file that fails the update. WE have processed on Windows 10, 64, Windows 7,10 32. It either generates no process and freezes on apply or it creates a number of java heap memory or garbage error messages. The systems we are running this on has 16gb memory and runs dual i7's and we ...

I would also suggest that you build up a set of adminsistration reports which would help with circular references and or identifying parent child relationships. As this is a data driven tool it is advisable to test the data through some error checking reports rather than relying on the models. Regar...

Various views of the capability model ... with levels 1,2, 3, 4

Easy to do with current class structure

Change is already linked to business capabilities in the model but depending on your level of maturity may require significant effort. Options which include modelling all the way down to Physical Process to model how an application automates a process through a role may require more data than is ava...

Hi Pascal, We can chat offline but there is already a hierarchy in Business capability. Once you a capability root you can derive the hierarchy from the parent child relationships. We have however, also added in an index which we use for reporting positions although this can be used to generate the ...

Hi Pascal, We may be able to provide you with an Application Capability Model. You will need to make some modifications to the Class Structure but as Jonathan has said this is not overly complex. You need to make sure you understand how you want to link the capabilities. i.e.: You may not want a lin...

Colin, We've stuck to the out of the box views so far. Do you have any screenshots that you could post showing what sort of views you have created and what they are used for? It'd be good to see what we could potentially do. Thanks John Hi John, We have created many new views where we have specific...

I Jonathan, We have created a query against the parameter class. We are using this to pass personalized reports to the portal structure. Thanks Colin Hi Colin, There are a couple of mechanisms available for passing parameters to the Views and you will see both applied in the out-of-the-box Views. Fi...

Hi, We are trying to push out a number of reports with default parameters already set. This creates a list of personalised reports. But we are struggling to get the default parameter to work. What is the structure of the string value? We jhave tried many variations of this "PMA=KB_247201_Class1...

Hi Adam, If you are still looking at going down this apth we have built up the dashboards using d3.js, timeline.js and a few other specific library's. We havnt automated the report.xml formation to json object and this still provides us some difficulties. Happy to share where we have got to if there...

Hi Colin, Are you able to post some screenshots and details of the libraries you've used? You could also share your xsl code via the forums. Cheers Neil https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-aQl0xnYv4Og/Uum-5OCvR_I/AAAAAAAAAFU/1m8ZEAthwPg/w958-h508-no/screenshot-by-nimbus.png This using the timeline.j...

Hi All, We have created a number of new roadmap for use with the standard essential data structure using a open source javascript library for timeline. We are happy to make this and others available if there is any interest and of course to those who contribute to the extension of Essential Viewer. ...

Hi Neil, Once again, thanks for the reply. We are more looking for some inspiration to be able to take our message into group risk. Looking for a few report views to take to group risk to get their by in to stop using excel. Regards Hi Colin, We've added a number of dashboards and reports around mon...

I Neil, I am more than happy for you to contact me directly. I used my work email address to register. Happy to provide phone number if you wish to contact this way. Regards Colin Hi Colin, We'd love to hear more about what kind of things you're doing with Essential and there are a number of ways fo...

Hi All, We are a large $60 billion company and have been using Essential for 5 months. We have built up the data based on projects, capabilities, risk, governance, application etc... We have built up around 20 new reports. We are happy to share reports, views and experience with other organizations ...

Hi,

Keen to understand if anyone has added reports for views for particularly policy's but also standards. Or if there is report usage which we haven't been able to find.

Regards
Colin

Hi, We are modelling the capability of a large retail organization with a number of brands. We originally took the concept of a owning Domain (Parent) for a set of capabilities. We have used capability to link into risk and issues as well as at a lower lvl. Our issue is that we can't represent at an...