Is there an update pack for the meta-model changes (v6.16 - v6.18)?

Great that v6.18 (OS) is now released - fantastic job btw. And am certainly liking the new summary view styling.

Cheers
Keth

Hi, After some advice on how best to document the various Governance Bodies that exist in our organisation. I see the Governance Body class has a slot that points to a Group Actor but using that appears to simply create a whole bunch of "orphan" group actors that are not part of a hierarch...

Thanks John,
Adding data into the business_capability_index slot did the trick.

Thanks again.

Cheers
Keith

Hi, A, probably, really silly question: Can I change the order of display for the level 1 Business Capabilities on the Business Capability Dashboard view? It looks like the order of display is arbitrarily the order in which they were created - am I correct n that assumption? I base that analysis on ...

Hi John, Thanks for the advice - very much appreciated. I have tried adding the Performance categories, etc. but to no avail. But, interestingly, now and again I get interesting errors appearing in the essential-viewer.log file (excerpt copied below) which suggest a number of .xsl files are missing ...

Hi guys, Having just completed the upgrade v6.16 I noticed the "Business Capability - Application Fit" view has been deprecated. I have to admit to having struggled with getting consistent views (seemed to work well if only one application was complete in terms of "fit" for a giv...

Hi Guys, Discovered that Information impacts are not showing in the Project Summary view. After a wee bit of investigation and trial-and-error I managed to find the culprit....I think.... It appears to be in core_el_project_summary.xsl at line 889. The original line is: <xsl:when test="supertyp...

Hi, I'm trying to install the latest 6.14 to 6.15 .eup file in Protege and have struck an error during the update process. Here's the output from the Protege screen: Applying pack: Common Functions Pack of meta model and instance install functions Applying pack: Reset AutoText Reset AutoText on two ...

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 characte...

Hi, I'm trying to get the "Programme Plan" view to show, well, anything other than the header. i.e. it won't display any detail for the underlying projects that support the programme. The Programme Summary view shows them all but the Programme Plan just won't. Any hint/ideas as to where I'...

Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the reply and guidance - very much appreciated. I did as you suggested but still got a " Too many nested apply-templates calls. The stylesheet may be looping. " error in the Essential_Viewer.log file. After trawling through our business capabilities I couldn't see a...

Hi Guys, I noticed on the Essential GitHub site an upgrade was available. After downloading the .eup file (and updating via Protege - with no errors) and then installing new version of the viewer I went through the process to publish my model to the new version.....which is where I struck a few erro...

Hi Guys, I've been building out the data for a strategic plan and it's associated projects and have discovered a wee (but annoying) situation with respect to the display of "Impacted Elements" on a couple of views. In the Project Summary view none of my mapped Information elements will dis...

Hi Neil, Thanks for the update. Have downloaded and ran with no errors that I can see so it looks like you and the "Essential Elves" have cured the issue - thanks, very much appreciated. I'll let you know if I find any more "challenges" but, for now, everything's good. Thanks aga...

Hi Neil, Thanks for the reply - much appreciated. Here's where I've got to in terms of attempting to get a "clean publish" from Protege to Essential Viewer: I have downloaded the .war file again (on the slim chance a weird corruption had occurred). I changed the log4j settings to DEBUG on ...

Hi Neil, Tomcat has been restarted (several times) as I tried to work through the "challenge"....to no avail. The environment I'm running is: Win 10; Tomcat 8.5.57; Jre AdoptOpenJDK 13.33. I've been running that for v6.10.4 with no apparent issues. I've also tried reverting to JRE 1.8 - bu...

Hi Guys, Have, this morning, downloaded & upgraded to v6.11.1. After the upgrade my natural instinct was to try to publish our existing model.....which is where I struck a few errors. On Protege I got: Rendering repository... Sending repository snapshot... Checking for access... Sending XML snap...

Hi Neil, Thanks for the reply - very much appreciated. I tried commenting out those lines and only got slightly further (i.e. I no longer get the following 2 lines of errors: "Recoverable error on line 7 of core_footer.xsl:" and "FODC0002: javax.net.ssl.SSLException: Connection reset&...

Hi, In a brief and unusually quiet moment I downloaded the latest update (v6.10.4), ran the .eup with no errors and then "fired up" the new version of the viewer. Upon trying out the new Slot Value Checker view it just "sat there" stating: "Loading slot check data. This may ...

Hi John, Thanks for that - very much appreciated. Have tried the .xsl and appears to work fine. I must say the UX "feels cleaner" than previous versions - excellent work. My only suggestion is while the numbering for the Business Footprint section is great I have to admit to "missing&...

Hi, After upgrading to v6.10.2 I've noticed the Project Summary report (core_el_project_summary.xsl) no longer displays the project description, lifecycle, approval status, roles & people, business capabilities footprint, any of the impacted elements. It does, however, show the project name and ...

Hi Guys, Thanks again for the speedy reply. From Jonathan's note I went "hunting" for caching stuff.....the trail lead me through web.xml to /platform/essentialCache.xml to the directory ../graph_images/pageCache to oscache.properties. The difference between our v6.7 deployment and the sta...

Hi Neil, Thanks for the speedy reply - very much appreciated. The log file (Catalina.<date>.log) just shows everything starting normally with no errors. And nothing is logged there as a result of the publish action from Protege. The only log that records the error is the essential_viewer.log file. I...

Hi, After upgrading to v6.9.2 I get the following when publishing to our Tomcat server: "Failed to send snapshot to the Report Service : Essential Viewer ReportService encountered an internal error while receiving your repository snapshot. Contact your system administrator and check Essential V...

Hi, After following the demo links we thought the view would be a great visual addition to our "dashboards". That lead onto this silly question - where can I find a copy of: ess_al_app_cost_analysis.xsl ? Is it contained within a launchpad? If so then, clearly, I haven't requested it and n...

Hi,
Did the trick - thanks very much for your help.

Cheers
Keith

Hi, Have just noticed (as a result of having to update one of our applications static architecture) that Protege no longer displays the Relation Label element - it appears to now use the Relation Name element. This is perpetuated when sending to the Essential Viewer (selected "Send Graph Images...

Hi Neil,
Adding the sub directory appears to have resolved the issue - thanks for your guidance, very much appreciated.

Cheers
Keith

Hi, I get a java exception of file not found every time I select "Application Data Dependency Model" report that points to a non-existent file in the ../graph_images/uml directory.....The ../uml directory, also, doesn't exist. Same thing happens for the Technology Platform Model report as ...

Hi All, I too have been having some "challenges" in getting the Hierarchy Report to display - albeit a bit different from previous posts. After following the advice (thanks John & Gunther) I've managed team reporting structures to display - except the root organisation. i.e. our compan...

Hi Guys, A couple of tests have revealed the inability to display the process model has been rectified :) - with one, maybe, slight anomaly. i.e. The process model displays but the display of the decision point seems a bit weird. The name of the decision appears in the same box type as for normal ac...

Hi Neil, Thanks for the quick reply - much appreciated. The uml directory does exist but with no entries in it (before or after running the request). Have copied a section of the log file that shows a java exception being thrown - hopefully that will help. Let me know if there's anything else you wa...

Hi John, Thanks for the files :) . Unfortunately when I attempt to run the view nothing appears to happen :( . The Tomcat console shows "Recoverable error on line 46 of core_utilities.xsl: FODC0005: java.io.FileNotFoundException: D:\tomcat\webapps\essential_viewer\language\.xml (The system cann...

Hi Guys, I've been experimenting with the business process model capabilities of the Essential Viewer and for any process flow that has a decision point the diagram only displays the activities leading up to the decision point. The activities table (below the diagram) lists all the activities define...

Hi, Have noticed when an Application Provider is referred to in more than one Strategic Plan we get: "DataTables warning: table id=dt_stratPlans – Cannot reinitialise DataTable. For more information about this error, place see http://datatables.net/tn/3" for each strategic plan. The summar...

Hi, Being somewhat of a newb to Essential I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but it is to do with the same subject. As a precursor - we're on v5. We have followed what documentation we could find and have added our Group Actor to the "Associated Instances" slot (Report Co...