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by sarah.smith
23 Nov 2023, 16:33
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Launchpad v5 - Next Version
Replies: 3
Views: 13561

Re: Launchpad v5 - Next Version

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
by sarah.smith
06 Apr 2023, 07:25
Forum: Essential Cloud
Topic: customise meta-model to reflect architecture standards
Replies: 1
Views: 3643

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. ...
by sarah.smith
14 Mar 2023, 15:29
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Process RTO/RPO Mapping issue
Replies: 2
Views: 4066

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...
by sarah.smith
25 Aug 2022, 09:18
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Documentation link not working https://university.enterprise-architecture.org/
Replies: 2
Views: 4235

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
by sarah.smith
29 Apr 2022, 14:00
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Contract currency showing in $ not £
Replies: 1
Views: 3638

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
by sarah.smith
09 Oct 2020, 09:01
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: How 'durable' is the Internal ID?
Replies: 1
Views: 3785

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
by sarah.smith
14 Sep 2020, 14:41
Forum: General
Topic: Essential University User Group
Replies: 6
Views: 9804

Re: Essential University User Group

I'll ask the group and come back to you - it may be after the next meeting..

Sarah
by sarah.smith
17 Aug 2020, 13:34
Forum: General
Topic: Essential University User Group
Replies: 6
Views: 9804

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...
by sarah.smith
17 Aug 2020, 11:18
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Where has import gone?!
Replies: 1
Views: 3780

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 ...
by sarah.smith
16 Jan 2020, 17:25
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Process Family
Replies: 2
Views: 4494

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
by sarah.smith
08 Jan 2020, 09:03
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Launchpad v5 - Next Version
Replies: 3
Views: 13561

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
by sarah.smith
23 Aug 2019, 17:24
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Application by host country view
Replies: 2
Views: 5303

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...
by sarah.smith
04 Jul 2019, 11:10
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: A few questions about the business layer
Replies: 2
Views: 5044

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...
by sarah.smith
22 May 2019, 11:14
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Country wise Applications implementation
Replies: 3
Views: 5834

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...
by sarah.smith
22 May 2019, 11:07
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business ->Application-> Application - including Data
Replies: 4
Views: 6697

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...
by sarah.smith
22 May 2019, 10:57
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: IT Asset Dashboard view - queries
Replies: 10
Views: 10238

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...
by sarah.smith
22 May 2019, 10:47
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Application Reference Model - appearance
Replies: 1
Views: 4289

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
by sarah.smith
09 May 2019, 12:53
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: IT Asset Dashboard view - queries
Replies: 10
Views: 10238

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...
by sarah.smith
11 Apr 2019, 10:43
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: achieving data flow diagram
Replies: 1
Views: 4416

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...
by sarah.smith
11 Apr 2019, 10:39
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Data Capture and Uploading a file through portal
Replies: 11
Views: 13987

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...
by sarah.smith
22 Jan 2019, 16:54
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Information Architecture Metamodel
Replies: 1
Views: 4728

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
by sarah.smith
22 Jan 2019, 16:51
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: business svc to application
Replies: 1
Views: 4504

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...
by sarah.smith
05 Jul 2018, 12:03
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Value streams
Replies: 5
Views: 7579

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...
by sarah.smith
26 Jun 2018, 12:16
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: core_bl_bus_cap_model.xsl empty boxes appearing
Replies: 4
Views: 2960

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
by sarah.smith
26 Jun 2018, 12:04
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Importing activity does not reflect new changes (new slot)
Replies: 12
Views: 5466

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...
by sarah.smith
21 Jun 2018, 11:58
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: download current repository
Replies: 2
Views: 2405

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 ...
by sarah.smith
15 Feb 2018, 13:18
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Persistent timeout when dowloading Spreadsheet Data Capture Template
Replies: 1
Views: 2352

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
by sarah.smith
31 Oct 2017, 11:15
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Access Levels
Replies: 5
Views: 4928

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...
by sarah.smith
31 Oct 2017, 11:03
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: business capability chain
Replies: 1
Views: 5086

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...
by sarah.smith
06 Oct 2017, 14:20
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: How to model business lifecycle?
Replies: 1
Views: 4727

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...
by sarah.smith
05 Oct 2017, 09:46
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Process hierarchy
Replies: 3
Views: 6422

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...
by sarah.smith
29 Aug 2017, 15:14
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Multi-level parent child views
Replies: 5
Views: 7369

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
by sarah.smith
21 Aug 2017, 09:26
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Multi-level parent child views
Replies: 5
Views: 7369

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...
by sarah.smith
14 Oct 2016, 15:23
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
Replies: 9
Views: 12235

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...
by sarah.smith
13 Oct 2016, 11:14
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
Replies: 9
Views: 12235

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...
by sarah.smith
10 Oct 2016, 16:09
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
Replies: 9
Views: 12235

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
by sarah.smith
07 Oct 2016, 14:13
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Applications and their documentation
Replies: 4
Views: 9326

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 ...
by sarah.smith
07 Oct 2016, 14:07
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Process Flow Diagram
Replies: 9
Views: 12235

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
by sarah.smith
04 Aug 2012, 17:02
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Training / Example for 3.0??
Replies: 3
Views: 4063

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
by sarah.smith
21 May 2012, 08:34
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: 100 Out of the Box Views
Replies: 1
Views: 3380

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
by sarah.smith
20 Feb 2012, 12:23
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Component Heat Map View
Replies: 7
Views: 8874

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...
by sarah.smith
09 Jun 2010, 21:33
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Meta Model Interconnections
Replies: 3
Views: 4275

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...
by sarah.smith
30 Mar 2010, 12:44
Forum: General
Topic: Privacy Policy
Replies: 0
Views: 53719

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...
by sarah.smith
16 Feb 2010, 15:12
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Finding Protege and Java
Replies: 3
Views: 4315

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 ...
by sarah.smith
01 Feb 2010, 17:31
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Need Protégé installation assistance:
Replies: 9
Views: 7211

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...
by sarah.smith
01 Feb 2010, 13:28
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Business Capabilities & Processes
Replies: 3
Views: 3934

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 ...
by sarah.smith
02 Dec 2009, 08:59
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: ECP-5 Skills modelling in Business Layer
Replies: 14
Views: 161309

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 ...
by sarah.smith
15 Sep 2009, 17:16
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Platform roadmap
Replies: 7
Views: 6554

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...
by sarah.smith
15 Sep 2009, 14:04
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Platform roadmap
Replies: 7
Views: 6554

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...
by sarah.smith
12 Sep 2009, 13:23
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Simplified and Graphical modelling
Replies: 4
Views: 60882

Re: Simplified and Graphical modelling

Aaron,

Thanks, don't hesitate to get back to us if you have any queries or quandries.

Sarah
by sarah.smith
09 Sep 2009, 08:21
Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
Topic: Demo Videos
Replies: 1
Views: 3089

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...
by sarah.smith
08 Sep 2009, 14:55
Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
Topic: Simplified and Graphical modelling
Replies: 4
Views: 60882

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...
by sarah.smith
24 Aug 2009, 14:22
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: current state vs future state
Replies: 3
Views: 4697

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...
by sarah.smith
18 Aug 2009, 10:22
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Exporting data for use in other tools?
Replies: 2
Views: 3522

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...
by sarah.smith
22 Apr 2009, 09:42
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Essential Sample Repository
Replies: 8
Views: 11685

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 ...
by sarah.smith
11 Mar 2009, 17:43
Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
Topic: Meta Model Extensions
Replies: 2
Views: 4073

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...