Bulk Data Capture (Drag and Drop)

5 min

Usage

Use Drag and Drop to quickly map data to your model, e.g. Applications to Business Capabilities, using placeholder processes. Currently this is only available for mapping applications to business capabilities, applications to business processes, and mapping your application disposition.

Application to Business Mapping Bulk Data Capture

Application to Business Capabilities

This mapper will link applications to capabilities with placeholder processes. If no process exists a placeholder process mapped to the root org Operations will be created.
Capabilities with multiple processes cannot be mapped to here and are locked (shown by lock symbol) use the Application to Process mapper.

To map an application, select and hold an application from the list to drag and drop it to the corresponding capability.

Applications mapped during the same session are highlighted. You can remove newly added applications by selecting the unlinked chain.

Applications to Business Processes

This mapper will link applications to processes in capabilities. If there is no box to drag to then no processes exist. This will create a direct mapping, if you want to add services then use the Application Editor.
To see any updates made in the Capability to Applications Panel, refresh the page.

In this drag and drop screen, after dropping an application, you will be prompted to select the Organisation(s) that uses the application to perform the process you are mapping it to.

It is assumed that if you map more than one application in a single session, that it is the same organisation(s) that are using them, so your initial selection of Organisations is saved for each application you map to any process. As seen below, the second application mapped has the recently selected organisation, Acquisitions.

Application Mapping

Disposition

You can use this bulk data capture to quickly map your application disposition, e.g. TIME.

As with the other bulk data capture options, newly mapped applications from a single session are highlighted.

Enumerations

The drag and drop dashboard now supports application enumerations so you can drag and drop any application to any enumeration.  Simply pick enumeration type you want to drag and then drag the applications across to that enumeration.

Meta Model Diagram

 

View Setup

If the view is not displaying in your View Library, you can enable it from the Capture screen or using the Viewer Configurator. In the repository, go to the Capture tab, then the Class Tree. Select EA > Class > EA Support > Essential Viewer > Report. Use the filter to search for the ext: Drag and Drop Data Capture View. Make sure the Report Enabled box is ticked, and publish to the Viewer. Alternatively, find the Viewer Configurator

Updated 17 February 2025