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- 12 Nov 2012, 23:32
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Capability Maturity Level
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4985
Re: Business Capability Maturity Level
Hi, Just a quick note to let you know I've taken this question to the wider team to discuss the best approach we'll get back to you shortly. Neither approach you've suggested seems ideal and we think we may have better options for you in terms of sustainability and maintenance of your repository. We...
- 08 Nov 2012, 10:58
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: essential_baseline_v1.pprj
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4114
Re: essential_baseline_v1.pprj
The training is a paid service offered by The Essential Project sponsors, EAS, as part their professional services offering. They offer a wide range of training modules associated with Essential including standard meta-model training, view development, strategy management, change management and more...
- 08 Nov 2012, 10:35
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Application name not getting populated
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3642
Re: Application name not getting populated
HI Mohineesh,
We'll need a bit more detail to respond to this.
Which specific view are you looking at? What is the view name?
Cheers
Neil
We'll need a bit more detail to respond to this.
Which specific view are you looking at? What is the view name?
Cheers
Neil
- 08 Nov 2012, 10:33
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Creating new reports
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3885
Re: Creating new reports
The Essential Project sponsors, EAS, provide professional services to support this kind of activity. They can also provide view development training for those who wish to learn to do this themselves. You can get in touch with them via the Services Menu at the top of this page. If you want to try to ...
- 05 Nov 2012, 20:53
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Repository publishing failed
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4509
Re: Repository publishing failed
Hi Mohineesh, This is a common error when first using Essential and is typically the result of something going wrong during the install. A couple of quick questions... Is Tomcat running? i.e. if you visit [url]http:://localhost:8080[/url] do you see the standard Tomcat page? If not, then try startin...
- 05 Nov 2012, 09:58
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: essential_baseline_v1.pprj
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4114
Re: essential_baseline_v1.pprj
The tutorials are for v1.x of Essential and although they apply in principal to v3, there may be some differences. Do feel free to follow them but don't be surprised if some things have changed. We will update the tutorials but for now these are the only ones we have ready. EAS do offer formal train...
- 02 Nov 2012, 16:04
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Capability Maturity Level
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4985
Re: Business Capability Maturity Level
Apologies for taking a while to get around to this - it dropped of the queue for some reason.... Can you post the entire xsl as an attachment as the snippet refers to parts of the view which I can't see. I'm guessing this is added to an existing view - if so which one? I suspect from your code the i...
- 02 Nov 2012, 15:49
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: ev3: basic search capability (source code in xslt)
- Replies: 2
- Views: 69961
Re: ev3: basic search capability (source code in xslt)
Hi, Thanks for this. It's quite similar to ideas we've looked at developing. In fact v3 viewer has a hidden search box in the header which is current not linked to anything. This could be tweaked to pass the parameter to the view you've created. When I downloaded the file, it was actually an XML not...
- 23 Oct 2012, 07:08
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Unable to publish and see updates in the Viewer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3973
Re: Unable to publish and see updates in the Viewer
That's great news Michael.
- 22 Oct 2012, 12:20
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Unable to publish and see updates in the Viewer
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3973
Re: Unable to publish and see updates in the Viewer
It sounds like the reportXML file isn't being updated properly. You can check the Tomcat logs to see if you're getting any errors. Tomcat > Logs > Catalina.out is a good place to start. Sometimes, these can be due to not enough memory allocated to Tomcat or Protege. We typically allocate 1536mb to t...
- 22 Oct 2012, 10:20
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Report list not displaying in multi-user deployment
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5989
Re: Report list not displaying in multi-user deployment
Just a brief response on this.... Single vs Multi user will have no effect per se on Essential Viewer. However the context menu lists are repository driven therefore it requires a recent repository (i.e. a version 3 repository) in order to work. Are your single user / multi-user repositories differe...
- 15 Oct 2012, 09:56
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Multi-user installation on a single machine...?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6104
Re: Multi-user installation on a single machine...?
I have a multi user install on a single machine which I use for development and testing. Many multi user installs only ever exist on a single machine. I'd suggest you run through the install process and if you get any problems then post your questions here.
Thanks
Neil
Thanks
Neil
- 18 Sep 2012, 15:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Issues with Essential_Viewer
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8557
Re: Issues with Essential_Viewer
Hi Saïd, It sounds like you have things configured correctly. The "Success" messages means that Protege is able to talk to the Essential Viewer web app. A few questions... When you go to the URL http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer/ Do you see the Essential Viewer Homepage? If so, which ...
- 14 Aug 2012, 10:57
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Essential and Protege 4.x
- Replies: 1
- Views: 52421
Re: Essential and Protege 4.x
Hi, This is a popular question and Jon has posted a great reply and blog post on this before. http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=161&p=893&hilit=owl#p893 http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/blogs/2010/07/16/what-about-owl/ If you have any further questio...
- 06 Aug 2012, 15:04
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: "Implemented?"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3456
Re: "Implemented?"
Hi Steve, The "implemented" field on the "Implemented Applications" section of the "Application Service Summary" refers to the "Application Functions" of an Application not the Application itself. In the protege repository the slot "Provides Application F...
- 05 Aug 2012, 19:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: example import
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4977
Re: example import
Hi Fabrizio, I've just answered a similar question a few days ago... We're aware of the lack of example content for v3 and are working on getting a new demo repository together. As v3 was such a big leap forward there's quite a bit of work needed to get a great demo together. We had hoped to get a d...
- 02 Aug 2012, 11:18
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Training / Example for 3.0??
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4258
Re: Training / Example for 3.0??
Hi Paul, Thanks for your interest. We're aware of the lack of example content for v3 and are working on getting a new demo repository together. As v3 was such a big leap forward there's quite a bit of work needed to get a great demo together. We had hoped to get the demo available for launch but we ...
- 02 Aug 2012, 11:10
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Software Version in the meta model
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5162
Re: Software Version in the meta model
These slots do not exist in the current meta-model and therefore these are classed as a known bug with the view. We're reviewing the current bug list over the next few weeks and will try and put an update out shortly. This may either add the slots or remove them from the view.
Thanks
Neil
Thanks
Neil
- 02 Aug 2012, 11:07
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: UML Diagram not generated
- Replies: 28
- Views: 31121
Re: UML Diagram not generated
Hi, Let's see if we can help debug and understand whether it's an installation issue, a content/repository issue or a bug with the view. Would it be possible to post a screenshot of the error you're getting? I'd be able to narrow the bug down by understanding visually what's getting rendered. (use t...
- 04 Jul 2012, 14:59
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Multi User Installation
- Replies: 13
- Views: 11345
Re: Multi User Installation
Hi Sigi, We were discussing the issue your having here and we were having a bit of trouble understanding the issues and state of your current installation. Do you have a backup of the project prior to converting to multi-user? Is it possible you didn't save the project file after converting to multi...
- 04 Jul 2012, 14:45
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Viewer not finding published reports
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8410
Re: Essential Viewer not finding published reports
Hi Ramesh, A quick thought... Did you install the Server Component when you did the Essential Install? This installs the default Meta Project (metaproject.pprj) into the folder {my protege instal}/examples/server This file will have the starter instances which you can configure for your installation...
- 27 Jun 2012, 18:57
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Installation on Windows 7
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4276
Re: Installation on Windows 7
Hi, I just wanted to let you know that we are now able to replicate this issue and have a workaround which I'll post shortly. We'll continue to investigate the problem and update the install guide once we fully understand the correct approach for this.
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 27 Jun 2012, 18:53
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Viewer not finding published reports
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8410
Re: Essential Viewer not finding published reports
Hi,
There are no views currently in the Support section. We've put this in place for future use. It sounds like you've restored everything back. It's also worth mentioning that you can restore to the default state by publishing from a v3 repository (even an empty one).
Cheers
Neil
There are no views currently in the Support section. We've put this in place for future use. It sounds like you've restored everything back. It's also worth mentioning that you can restore to the default state by publishing from a v3 repository (even an empty one).
Cheers
Neil
- 25 Jun 2012, 21:42
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Installation on Windows 7
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4276
Re: Installation on Windows 7
Hi, We might need a little more information to help. Is the file located in a "user" directory e.g. Documents or Desktop? Depending on your configuration, you may need to run as an administrator (you can right click on the file for this option in Windows 7) Which Java runtime do you curren...
- 25 Jun 2012, 21:37
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Essential Viewer not finding published reports
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8410
Re: Essential Viewer not finding published reports
Hi Ramesh, Two quick points. Although we publish to the "report service" at http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer/reportService the correct url for the viewer is simply http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer. From there you access the different views available via the dedicated homepage. ...
- 19 Jun 2012, 22:36
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: (v 3.0.4) : missing technology report
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5040
Re: (v 3.0.4) : missing technology report
For now, we have an internal solution however a public bug-tracker is something we'd like to do. We need set a bit of time aside to figure out the best approach for the Essential Project and then make it happen. We've been a bit busy recently :D We'll post back when we have a bit more to report... T...
- 14 Jun 2012, 09:18
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: (v 3.0.4) : missing technology report
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5040
Re: (v 3.0.4) : missing technology report
Thanks for your feedback. I've added these to the bug tracker. This will be definitely fixed in the next minor release.
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 13 Jun 2012, 12:50
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Objective to Project link
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4981
Re: Objective to Project link
Hi, We see Goals as longer term objectives and model them using the Objectives meta-class. However, we understand that there are scenarios where you might want to distinguish these separately and we use Taxonomy Terms to separate the kinds of objectives we have (for example, in a custom view). We ha...
- 12 Jun 2012, 09:09
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: (v 3.0.4) : missing technology report
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5040
Re: (v 3.0.4) : missing technology report
Can you describe the path you take to try to view the page. This will help us debug. Like most pages, the Technology Instance Summary page has been renamed in line with a standard naming convention. In this case it's technology/core_tl_tech_instance_summary.xsl I can view the instance summary on my ...
- 07 Jun 2012, 15:46
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential viewer v3 : no output encoding in xsl files
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8251
Re: Essential viewer v3 : no output encoding in xsl files
The Protege team have written a great page which explains more about file encoding within Protege and their choice of UTF-8.
http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/file_encodings.html
Is there any reason you're looking at the ISO-8859-1 standard?
http://protege.stanford.edu/doc/file_encodings.html
Is there any reason you're looking at the ISO-8859-1 standard?
- 07 Jun 2012, 14:22
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential viewer v3 : no output encoding in xsl files
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8251
Re: Essential viewer v3 : no output encoding in xsl files
Apologies, I wasn't quite clear enough. The encoding for the output is set in the file called ev3_common_head_content.xsl within the common folder. The following line sets the encoding for all the html output <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> A...
- 07 Jun 2012, 11:13
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: (v3) : html formatting for descriptions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4550
Re: (v3) : html formatting for descriptions
The same problem applies really. Just by using this widget, it creates default styles in the output which overwrite the default Viewer styles which means you'll need to write a function to handle this. If you revert back to the TextAreaWidget you could use the HTML <br/> tag to force a line break in...
- 06 Jun 2012, 20:46
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential viewer v3 : no output encoding in xsl files
- Replies: 10
- Views: 8251
Re: Essential viewer v3 : no output encoding in xsl files
Thanks for the tip. All the xsl files in Essential Viewer have UTF-8 encoding. Is this proving a problem for any reason?
- 06 Jun 2012, 20:43
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: (v3) : html formatting for descriptions
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4550
Re: (v3) : html formatting for descriptions
Hi, We made the decision to keep the separation of content and formatting between Protege and Viewer to allow a consistent look and feel across the whole of Essential Viewer. As a result we chose to use the TextAreaWidget rather than the EditorPaneWidget as this provides us with clean plain text whi...
- 07 Feb 2012, 16:12
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: TM Forum Application Map Framework (TAM)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6180
Re: TM Forum Application Map Framework (TAM)
I've attached a small snippet of the poster to aid discussion. TAM_snippet.png Firstly, I've not come across this before and at first glance, I'm unsure of what all the various colours and boxes mean in terms of relationships but I understand the general gist of the model. That said, these look to m...
- 06 Feb 2012, 15:27
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: TM Forum Application Map Framework (TAM)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 6180
Re: TM Forum Application Map Framework (TAM)
Hi Rungsima,
I'm not familiar with the Telecom Application Map you mention. Can you provide a link or website to help us better answer you question.
Thanks
Neil
I'm not familiar with the Telecom Application Map you mention. Can you provide a link or website to help us better answer you question.
Thanks
Neil
- 05 Jan 2012, 13:49
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: How to delete a widget from a form?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 4313
Re: How to delete a widget from a form?
No problem... In the form editor left hand pane you will see 4 icons near the top. The first of these icons is "View Form Customisations". From here, you can set a widget type for each slot or you can set it to "none" which removes the slot widget from the form. Importantly, this...
- 05 Jan 2012, 13:35
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: JBoss 7 and Protege 4?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3358
Re: JBoss 7 and Protege 4?
Although I don't have any personal experience of running Essential under JBoss, I understand that some of the Protege team have used it successfully. Regarding v3 vs v4 of Protege, Jonathan has covered this in a previous post which should answer your question. http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/...
- 22 Dec 2011, 22:43
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Roadmap
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3760
Re: Roadmap
There isn't a set time for updating the roadmap. We update the roadmap when something changes e.g. a shift in demand or completion of phases of the roadmap, etc... If there are things you'd like to see on the roadmap then let us know. We're always looking to the community to help set the direction o...
- 16 Dec 2011, 16:02
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Installation problems
- Replies: 15
- Views: 11055
Re: Installation problems
That's great news. Thanks for the update
- 15 Dec 2011, 13:41
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Forms Tab not available
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3454
Re: Forms Tab not available
Hi Wolfgang,
To turn on the Forms tab (as well as many of the other tab options) goto "Project" from the main menu and choose "Configure" and select the "Tab Widgets" section.
Cheers
Neil
To turn on the Forms tab (as well as many of the other tab options) goto "Project" from the main menu and choose "Configure" and select the "Tab Widgets" section.
Cheers
Neil
- 13 Dec 2011, 11:58
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Diagrams in Reports
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4663
Re: Diagrams in Reports
Hi Wolfgang, Just to build on Jon's answer a little more... You could use BIRT, though we don't currently. For some of our client work, we've used the following tools and they're straightforward to implement. We're using some of these in the release http://thejit.org/ http://mbostock.github.com/prot...
- 11 Dec 2011, 23:12
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: migrating data when version upgrade
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3484
Re: migrating data when version upgrade
Hi Wolfgang, Typically, we provide separate upgrade scripts for version upgrades. Currently, these are run from the script tab within Protege though we're working on simplifying this even more. This current method isn't complex but can be prone to "user error" or typos so we thought we'd t...
- 11 Dec 2011, 22:37
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: structuring applications
- Replies: 7
- Views: 7705
Re: structuring applications
Hi Wolfgang, Could you expand a little on the question... What is it you'd like to do when you say "group applications". How? For what purpose? Can you provide an example of what you might like? Essential can group applications in many different ways. If you provide a little more detail on...
- 31 Oct 2011, 17:12
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Deploy Report Service
- Replies: 12
- Views: 9408
Re: Deploy Report Service
quick one...
I think the 'essential_viewer.war' needs to be in the web apps folder. from there Tomcat should deploy the app and a folder should automatically appear called essential_viewer.
Yes Tomcat needs to be running...
Cheers
Neil
I think the 'essential_viewer.war' needs to be in the web apps folder. from there Tomcat should deploy the app and a folder should automatically appear called essential_viewer.
Yes Tomcat needs to be running...
Cheers
Neil
- 11 Oct 2011, 10:25
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: technology product build question
- Replies: 23
- Views: 15460
Re: technology product build question
Ok... To define a deployment... 1. Choose the Application Provider you wish to define a deployment for. 2. In the form for the Application Provider, find the Physical Deployment field and choose Add New 3. You should now have a new form to create a deployment 4. Give the deployment a local name e.g....
- 14 Sep 2011, 20:24
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: SVG Addin is Obsolete
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4787
Re: SVG Addin is Obsolete
Do let us know how you get on... I tried this and although the rendering wasn't quite as pretty as it should have been, it was quite usable. Only took about 5 mins to add too... Add this line of code as the first line in the <head> section <script src="js/svg.js" data-path="js/" ...
- 14 Sep 2011, 15:50
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: SVG Addin is Obsolete
- Replies: 4
- Views: 4787
Re: SVG Addin is Obsolete
Hi schulmkg, Whilst it is true that the SVG plugin developed by Adobe for Internet Explorer is no longer being actively developed, it is a stable product and does (to the best of my knowledge) work fine in IE6, IE7 and IE8 for using Essential Viewer. In the new IE9, SVG support is baked directly int...
- 09 Sep 2011, 21:56
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Multiuser setup instructions
- Replies: 31
- Views: 19625
Re: Multiuser setup instructions
Just a brief thought that might help with your troubleshooting is to install to a folder in your users directory e.g. Documents. This will bypass the permissions issue and you will be able to ensure you have all the files you need. You can copy them manually if necessary. This does feel like a permi...