Hi,

half a year ago you sent me a script for importing data from .csv Files. It works quite well but not very convenient. It has problems when importing Line breaks or " characters.

Is there now a more convenient way to import data?

Thanks
Wolfgang

Hi,

In Protege i can customize forms of the essential meta model classes. However, I can not use Group Boxes or static Text labels or sections to group the information.

Is there a way which I didn't see?

Wolfgang

Hi,

Protege does not check if a name (e.g. of an application) is unique.

For us it is an important requirement to have a constraint which enforces that certain key attribute are unique.

How can I implement this?

Thanks,

Wolfgang

Hi, we think of installing essential/protege in Client/Server mode (multi user installation). A must have is access control like "User A is allowed to edit Application "A" and instances of class "Software Component" that belong to application "A" . It is a must hav...

Hi, I was successful in importing data from a flat (.csv) file using the scripts you sent me last week. Thanks for that. Currently I try to import/export Data from essential metamodel using the XML Tab an have following problems: We think of an import of business Objects (like "Customer", ...

Hi,

The essential Meta model comes as .pont file (Protege Frames not OWL).

Why did you decide to use Frames instead of OWL?
OWL seems to be the more "trendy" approach?

Thanks
Wolfgang

Hi, I tried to find a plugin which can be used to import a CSV List into Essential Project. There is a plugin called "Excel Import" but it only works for protege 4.0 and I didnt find another plugin for 3.x What is the best way to import our List of applications which we currently maintain ...

Jonathan, thank you for your quick reply, it helps a lot. >>New versions of e.g. a technology product or an >>application are captured as a new element and we >>typically use the version number as part of the name - >>in particular for technology products. The problem I see with this approach that o...

Hi, Essential Project currently runs on Protege 3.x As I found on proteges web-page there is already Protege 4.x When we would start with essential and protege 3.x - what is the migration effort to migrate our architecture model from 3.x -> 4.x? What about all the protege plug ins available etc. Whe...

Hi, how do you deal with versions of the architecture model? In reality we have releases (in our case twice a year) where we rollout certain versions of the applications. One solution could be to add a version name and/or "in production since/until" date in the meta model. The problem here...

Hi, in Protege's Query Tab it is possible to query for entities by its attributes or relationships to other instances. I can query for example for all application providers that are used to implement a certain application service. The functionality i would need is to compose queries accross several ...

Hi, it is quite common to model a Domain Object Model. It consists of Domain Objects an Relationships incl. Cardinality. With Essential Meta Model it is possible to model Information Concepts. But there is only a simple relationship without catdinalities. What is the best thing to model cardinality?...

Hi.
I tried to delete widgets from a protegee form on the forms tab. Unfortunately I couldn't find a way to delete widgets. Thx for your hints!

For these sort of views there are a number of options. The Viewer framework uses standard web technology, which means that you can use any charting / graphical web widgets that you might need. We have used SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics and which is part of HTML 5) to render more 'custom' graphical ...

Jonathan, I have several concerns with this approach: 1. The concept of "Business Domain" and "Application Capability" is quite overlapping - we dont want to use both. 2. Application Capabilities can not be hierarchically divided into Sub-Application Capabilities. Thus they can b...

Hi,

I'd like to edit the form for class "Application Capability" as described in the users guide but the forms tab is not available. Any hints for that?

Wolfgang Göbl

Hi. What is the common way to generate grafical Representations of the EA data! For example Pie Diagrams, Gannt Charts or matrix kind of reports. Commercial EAM Tools like TROUX offer sofisticated ways to generate diagrams using Frameworks like BIRT. Is there.a BIRT plugin in essential project? How ...

Neil, thank you for your quick reply. In our current EAM tool we group applications by hierarchically structured business domains. E.g. A top level domain "loan" is divided into sub domains "loan sales" and "loan backoffice" to each of these sub domains there are severa...

Hi,
How much effort is it to upgrade data entered in Versoon X of Essential Project to Version X+1? Which Tasks must be performed? Thx Wolfgang

Hi,
What is the usual way to group applications?
We need a way to assign applications to domains or capabilities...


Thx for your help!
Wolfgang