Hi Keith,
The update for this issue is now available to download. It's just the Viewer package (v6.11.2)
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/os_download.php
Thanks for raising this. Let me know how you get on with this update.
Thanks
Neil
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- 27 Oct 2020, 11:12
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14651
- 22 Oct 2020, 10:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14651
Re: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
Hi Keith,
Thank you for sending the detailed logs, they have helped us identify a bug when using on Windows for which we have developed a fix. We're just progressing through testing and packing so hope to have this out tomorrow.
Thanks
Neil
Thank you for sending the detailed logs, they have helped us identify a bug when using on Windows for which we have developed a fix. We're just progressing through testing and packing so hope to have this out tomorrow.
Thanks
Neil
- 20 Oct 2020, 08:50
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14651
Re: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
Hi Keith, We've done a bunch of testing here with repositories with many special characters in multiple languages to see if we can replicate this but so far everything seems to be as expected. Is it possible this is just a typo problem? The Viewer WAR file should be called " essential_viewer_61...
- 19 Oct 2020, 11:01
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
- Replies: 7
- Views: 14651
Re: V6.11.1 (Open Source) - Publish Model Error
Hi Keith,
Can I ask if you've tried a restart of Tomcat to fix this?
Cheers
Neil
Can I ask if you've tried a restart of Tomcat to fix this?
Cheers
Neil
- 07 Oct 2020, 09:28
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Installation of Essential Architecture Manager
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9134
Re: Installation of Essential Architecture Manager
This sounds like either Tomcat isn't running or the Viewer web app can't be found. Does the name of the Viewer web app match the URL? For example, if your web app is called essential_viewer then the URL in Protege would be http://localhost/essential_viewer however if your web app is called essential...
- 04 Sep 2020, 16:46
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Slot Value Checker
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7732
Re: Slot Value Checker
Hi Keith, Essential Viewer makes an external call to check if there are any updates to Essential. It looks like from the trace that Viewer couldn't make that call. If you're working in an offline situation then you can edit the common/core_footer.xsl file to disable this feature. Comment out the fol...
- 25 Aug 2020, 10:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: [Import Utility 2.2 + Metamodel 6.9 or 6.10] Broken Result Issue
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16616
Re: [Import Utility 2.2 + Metamodel 6.9 or 6.10] Broken Result Issue
Hi Tshitshi,
It should be the top of the list. Perhaps you have a browser cache problem?
See screenshot attached.
Maybe try a private browsing tab?
Cheers
Neil
It should be the top of the list. Perhaps you have a browser cache problem?
See screenshot attached.
Maybe try a private browsing tab?
Cheers
Neil
- 24 Aug 2020, 10:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Downgrade 6.10.2 to 6.8
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7791
Re: Downgrade 6.10.2 to 6.8
Hi Tshitshi,
We have replied to your original post regarding this here....
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... =21&t=2426
Cheers
Neil
We have replied to your original post regarding this here....
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... =21&t=2426
Cheers
Neil
- 24 Aug 2020, 10:36
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: [Import Utility 2.2 + Metamodel 6.9 or 6.10] Broken Result Issue
- Replies: 9
- Views: 16616
Re: [Import Utility 2.2 + Metamodel 6.9 or 6.10] Broken Result Issue
Hi Tshitshi, We have identified the issue which you are experiencing and have just released two updates which should resolve this for you. The updates are for the meta-model and the import utility. You will need to apply both updates to fix the issue. The release notes can be found here https://www....
- 14 Jul 2020, 11:14
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: [Viewer 6.10.2] Special character Issue on Portal Label
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5987
Re: [Viewer 6.10.2] Special character Issue on Portal Label
Hi Tshitshi,
We have a fix for that in the next release. I've attached the file here which goes in the "common" folder.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Cheers
Neil
We have a fix for that in the next release. I've attached the file here which goes in the "common" folder.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention.
Cheers
Neil
- 19 Jun 2020, 14:24
- Forum: Community Contributions
- Topic: Contributing to Essential
- Replies: 0
- Views: 10695
Contributing to Essential
Making a contribution You can submit any contributions directly on this forum as a ZIP file attachment or for the more technically inclined, on GitHub by branching and issuing a pull-request. https://github.com/essentialproject/essential-contributions. Don't forget to include some form of readme.tx...
- 15 Jun 2020, 23:07
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi John, Thanks for sharing your repository. That helped identify the issue. In a previous upgrade of Essential we replaced an older version of the Application Reference Model with a newer version (the older version can be found by editing the URL to show application/core_al_app_ref_model_v1.xsl). A...
- 15 Jun 2020, 20:57
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi John, The ext folder should not be there in open-source. That's a bug but not one which would cause this issue. Would you be willing to share a copy of your repository to allow us to diagnose the problem? If so, you may wish to sanitise any especially sensitive information before doing so. We wil...
- 15 Jun 2020, 20:25
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi John,
The footer of the penultimate screenshot suggests that you're still on 6.10.1. Has the v6.10.2 not deployed correctly for you or perhaps you need to changes the URL?
Cheers
Neil
The footer of the penultimate screenshot suggests that you're still on 6.10.1. Has the v6.10.2 not deployed correctly for you or perhaps you need to changes the URL?
Cheers
Neil
- 15 Jun 2020, 20:10
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Thanks for these. Can I ask you to look in the browser console and let me know if there are any errors shown.
In Chrome you can get to the console by clicking on the Menu icon > More tools > Developer tools.
In Edge you can click F12
Thanks
Neil
In Chrome you can get to the console by clicking on the Menu icon > More tools > Developer tools.
In Edge you can click F12
Thanks
Neil
- 15 Jun 2020, 18:47
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Can you post a screenshot of the error
- 13 Jun 2020, 08:50
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi John,
Pretty sure you’ll find that fixed in 6.10.2
Cheers,
Neil
Pretty sure you’ll find that fixed in 6.10.2
Cheers,
Neil
- 12 Jun 2020, 14:54
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi John, Thanks for raising this. This is a bug and we have just pushed a point release for Viewer (v6.10.2) which address this as well as some minor issues for handling special characters in Views. You can either download the latest version or if you'd rather just address the log issue in the versi...
- 12 Jun 2020, 12:21
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi,
It's possible that you have an problem WAR file. I do recall a packaging issue with the 6.9 release at some point which we resolved.
Can I suggest you try downloading again from the website?
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/os_download.php
Neil
It's possible that you have an problem WAR file. I do recall a packaging issue with the 6.9 release at some point which we resolved.
Can I suggest you try downloading again from the website?
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/os_download.php
Neil
- 27 May 2020, 13:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
- Replies: 24
- Views: 38393
Re: Error applying upgrade essential_meta_model_6_5_to_6_7_update_pack.eup
Hi, We would strongly recommend using the WAR file from the website which is packaged to use as a web app. The GitHub download is a ZIP which must be unzipped and repackaged to use in Tomcat so we wouldn't recommend that unless you know what you're doing there. I'd recommend downloaded the 6.9 WAR f...
- 06 May 2020, 15:55
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: Azure Gallery App
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9162
Re: Azure Gallery App
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. We really welcome the input but have no immediate plans to implement this specifically given the wide variance of SAML solutions (ADFS, Okta, Ping, etc) our customers currently use. We will keep this under review and let you know if we have anything more to share in this...
- 20 Apr 2020, 15:40
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: [essential_viewer_692] Issues
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8354
Re: [essential_viewer_692] Issues
Hi Tshitshi, We've been unable to reproduce the errors you've listed which suggests there is something particular about your data that is causing these issues. Would it be ok if my colleague Jason Powell contacted you directly to discuss these so we are able to identify the root cause of the problem...
- 13 Apr 2020, 16:54
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Publishing V6.9 Produces an error
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9964
Re: Publishing V6.9 Produces an error
Hi Keith, The log file you will need to look at is called catalina.out (or catalina.somedate.log). Can you take a look in there and let us know if you see any errors there. One minor thing to consider is that the Viewer download is called essential_viewer_692.war which will deploy as an application ...
- 12 Apr 2020, 15:22
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: [MetaModel 6.9] Download Issue
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7513
Re: [MetaModel 6.9] Download Issue
Hi Tshitshi,
Apologies, there was a typo in the link for the meta-model download. This is fixed now.
Cheers
Neil
Apologies, there was a typo in the link for the meta-model download. This is fixed now.
Cheers
Neil
- 25 Mar 2020, 16:24
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Windows 10 Install
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7541
Re: Windows 10 Install
Hi Francois, We're working on a proper solution to address this however in the interim, you could try the following. Install Protege 3.5 with built in java https://essential-cdn.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com/protege/install_protege_3.5-Win64-JVM.exe During the install process, Protege will ask you to c...
- 19 Feb 2020, 16:02
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: Technology Product Lifecycles not showing in cloud
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11263
Re: Technology Product Lifecycles not showing in cloud
Hi,
Can you send an email to [email protected] and we'll raise a ticket to investigate this further.
Just reference the URL
posting.php?mode=reply&f=23&t=2334
Thanks
Neil
Can you send an email to [email protected] and we'll raise a ticket to investigate this further.
Just reference the URL
posting.php?mode=reply&f=23&t=2334
Thanks
Neil
- 19 Feb 2020, 13:52
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: Technology Product Lifecycles not showing in cloud
- Replies: 6
- Views: 11263
Re: Technology Product Lifecycles not showing in cloud
Hi, It looks like you have an error in your dates which is causing the problem You have set the extended support date (2025) after the end of life (2022). This is an invalid pattern and the view is filtering this out. You don't have to fill in all the dates but they should follow in sequence BETA > ...
- 17 Feb 2020, 15:19
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: performance improvement by RDM (Vmware)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18916
Re: performance improvement by RDM (Vmware)
Hi Rajaraman, I can see from the screenshot you shared with us the View is called "abc/core_bl_bus_cap_list_as_table_" - is that correct? That means it's some kind of custom view? When we have slower views, we do seek out opportunities to optimise the queries to help the perform more quick...
- 17 Feb 2020, 14:39
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: performance improvement by RDM (Vmware)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18916
Re: performance improvement by RDM (Vmware)
Hi Rajaraman, Thanks for the detailed numbers, can you let me know which specific Business Capability view you're looking at as we have a few different ones. My first thought is that 4000+ business capabilities sounds like quite a lot. We typically see several hundred capabilities and then lower lev...
- 06 Feb 2020, 09:29
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: [Viewer 6.8 : Information Representation Summary View] i18n issue for Instance Name and Description
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6005
Re: [Viewer 6.8 : Information Representation Summary View] i18n issue for Instance Name and Description
Great stuff. Thanks for the contribution. We'll roll this into the next release.
- 23 Jan 2020, 12:58
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Import Utility - Server not available (467)
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10114
Re: Import Utility - Server not available (467)
Hi, Sorry to hear you are having trouble getting this set up. You mentioned you are using Essential 6.2b. We have moved to a more component based install as we believe this will be more transparent for our users. The latest versions for all components can be found here https://www.enterprise-archite...
- 13 Nov 2019, 18:46
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Updating essential viewer problems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11851
Re: Updating essential viewer problems
That’s great to hear
Thanks for letting us know
Thanks for letting us know
- 09 Nov 2019, 00:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Updating essential viewer problems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11851
Re: Updating essential viewer problems
Thanks for posting back. I suspect the issue may be related to the version of Java you are running. Java 13 was only released about 8 weeks ago and we haven’t tested against that version. Java 8 is the current recommended version and has long term support from Oracle. It is a mainstream version whic...
- 08 Nov 2019, 17:01
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Updating essential viewer problems
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11851
Re: Updating essential viewer problems
Hi Tim, The application name used in the browser (e.g. essential_viewer in http://localhost:8080/ essential_viewer[/b]) is based on the name of the WAR file itself. If you download the latest 6.7 WAR file from our site on this page https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/os_download.php you will see...
- 07 Nov 2019, 09:33
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Updating existing projects to the latest meta model
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7994
Re: Updating existing projects to the latest meta model
Hi,
You need to apply an update pack
https://enterprise-architecture.org/downloads.php and select Update Packs
These allow you update the meta-model to the latest version. Do take care to apply them in the correct order.
Thanks
Neil
You need to apply an update pack
https://enterprise-architecture.org/downloads.php and select Update Packs
These allow you update the meta-model to the latest version. Do take care to apply them in the correct order.
Thanks
Neil
- 06 Nov 2019, 19:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying EMM 65 upgrade EUP file in Protégé 3.5
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24332
Re: Error applying EMM 65 upgrade EUP file in Protégé 3.5
Hi,
700000000 is too small. That's 700mb. We'd suggest a value of 2048000000 (2GB)
Thanks
Neil
700000000 is too small. That's 700mb. We'd suggest a value of 2048000000 (2GB)
Thanks
Neil
- 06 Nov 2019, 07:55
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying EMM 65 upgrade EUP file in Protégé 3.5
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24332
Re: Error applying EMM 65 upgrade EUP file in Protégé 3.5
The error shows you’ve run out of memory whilst opening the project or applying the update. Protege will need at least 1.5 GB or ideally 2 GB or more to run correctly. You can find out more about setting the correct memory values for Essential here… https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/docs/essen...
- 04 Nov 2019, 23:51
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Slow performance using the viewer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20615
Re: Slow performance using the viewer
Thanks. Really appreciate you bringing this to our attention.
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 04 Nov 2019, 15:11
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Slow performance using the viewer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20615
Re: Slow performance using the viewer
All, I've attached an updated core_footer.xsl file which disables the version check feature. We'll look to handle this better in a future release. If you prefer to makes the changes manually you can make the following updates to the core_footer.xsl file yourself. Comment out the following lines Line...
- 31 Oct 2019, 22:37
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Slow performance using the viewer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20615
Re: Slow performance using the viewer
I can answer this but unfortunately I’m away from my machine for a couple of days. I’ll try and post ASAP.
On a wider note, we’ll review the implementation of this feature to minimise impact in a future release.
I’ll update soon
Neil
On a wider note, we’ll review the implementation of this feature to minimise impact in a future release.
I’ll update soon
Neil
- 31 Oct 2019, 10:22
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Slow performance using the viewer
- Replies: 12
- Views: 20615
Re: Slow performance using the viewer
Hi, The mostly like cause of this will be the outbound callback from Essential Viewer to the version update checker service. Viewer makes a call to see if there is a later version available and displays a notification in the footer of the Viewer application. You can disable this by commenting out or...
- 30 Oct 2019, 13:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Error applying EMM 65 upgrade EUP file in Protégé 3.5
- Replies: 13
- Views: 24332
Re: Error applying EMM 65 upgrade EUP file in Protégé 3.5
Hi David, We have done some work to improve the install guide and improve the downloads for open source users. The GitHub downloads by default can't just be renamed from ZIP to WAR as they wrap the content in a folder. This is a likely cause of the issue you are experiencing. You can now however dow...
- 30 Oct 2019, 13:13
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege jumps out of instance
- Replies: 11
- Views: 20908
Re: Protege jumps out of instance
Hi Alex, Apologies for the delay, this was somewhat of a mystery for us. What we think is happening is that you are all connecting your local Protege installs directly to the database rather than connecting to Protege Server (which in turn connects to the DB backend). This has the effect of everyone...
- 30 Oct 2019, 12:56
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: [Essential V6.5] Problem with JSON string Escaping in roadmap enabled views
- Replies: 18
- Views: 32601
Re: [Essential V6.5] Problem with JSON string Escaping in roadmap enabled views
Hi Tshitshi, We've release version 6.7 today which has lots of improvements around the handling of JSON in views as well as many other features and updates. I can't guarantee it will fix all your issues but it should provide an improved experience. https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/os_download...
- 01 Oct 2019, 08:31
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: [Essential V6.5] Problem with JSON string Escaping in roadmap enabled views
- Replies: 18
- Views: 32601
Re: [Essential V6.5] Problem with JSON string Escaping in roadmap enabled views
Hi,
Meta model 6.6 is available however 6.6 Viewer is not yet ready.
Cheers,
Neil
Meta model 6.6 is available however 6.6 Viewer is not yet ready.
Cheers,
Neil
- 30 Sep 2019, 12:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege jumps out of instance
- Replies: 11
- Views: 20908
Re: Protege jumps out of instance
Hi Alex,
That's not a scenario we've heard of before.
Can you provide some technical details on your install. Specifically, the version of all the components you''re using and which DB you're using as a backend.
Thanks
Neil
That's not a scenario we've heard of before.
Can you provide some technical details on your install. Specifically, the version of all the components you''re using and which DB you're using as a backend.
Thanks
Neil
- 30 Sep 2019, 12:36
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: [Essential V6.5] Problem with JSON string Escaping in roadmap enabled views
- Replies: 18
- Views: 32601
Re: [Essential V6.5] Problem with JSON string Escaping in roadmap enabled views
Hi Tshitshi,
The code Jonathan shared here has an extra line which will only work with a forthcoming release. I've removed the problem lines and reattached zip here.
Let us know how you get one with these
Cheers
Neil
The code Jonathan shared here has an extra line which will only work with a forthcoming release. I've removed the problem lines and reattached zip here.
Let us know how you get one with these
Cheers
Neil
- 19 Aug 2019, 14:03
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential import utility - issue with Java 11 ?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8072
Re: Essential import utility - issue with Java 11 ?
We haven't done any testing yet with Java 11 and we are already aware of issues with Java 9. We're hopping to address this in the next month or two.
In the meantime, you can install Java 8 alongside Java 11 if you need to have 11 installed but Java 8 remains our recommended version at the moment.
In the meantime, you can install Java 8 alongside Java 11 if you need to have 11 installed but Java 8 remains our recommended version at the moment.
- 10 Jul 2019, 07:36
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege 3.5 (663) in windows 7 vs windows 2012 R2
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13440
Re: Protege 3.5 (663) in windows 7 vs windows 2012 R2
Hi,
You need to rename the file from .install to .jar
Cheers
Neil
You need to rename the file from .install to .jar
Cheers
Neil
- 09 Jul 2019, 21:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege 3.5 (663) in windows 7 vs windows 2012 R2
- Replies: 5
- Views: 13440
Re: Protege 3.5 (663) in windows 7 vs windows 2012 R2
Hi,
It looks like the Essential Widgets haven't been installed. You'll need to download and run the Essential Installer and ensure Widgets and Tabs are selected from the list of available items.
Cheers
Neil
It looks like the Essential Widgets haven't been installed. You'll need to download and run the Essential Installer and ensure Widgets and Tabs are selected from the list of available items.
Cheers
Neil
- 05 Jul 2019, 14:24
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: ... class="content-section" style="display:none;" as default
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9170
Re: ... class="content-section" style="display:none;" as default
I'm still not sure I fully understand where you're going with this but this will probably work for most summary views. You can then click on the icons to show the content for the various sections. <script> $(document).ready(function(){ $('.content-section').hide(); $('.content-section:first').show()...
- 03 Jul 2019, 08:28
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: ... class="content-section" style="display:none;" as default
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9170
Re: ... class="content-section" style="display:none;" as default
Hi Tshitshi,
That's a rather unusual request. What is it you are ultimately trying to achieve?
Let me know and I'll see if we can find a way to help
Cheers
Neil
That's a rather unusual request. What is it you are ultimately trying to achieve?
Let me know and I'll see if we can find a way to help
Cheers
Neil
- 19 Jun 2019, 09:19
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Webprotege Yet?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8178
Re: Webprotege Yet?
Unfortunately, the Protege team dropped support for the Frames-based ontologies that Essential uses in version 4+ which includes WebProtege. Protege 3.5 will be used in the Essential open-source platform for the foreseeable future. I don't think there's any technical limitation with regards to using...
- 19 Jun 2019, 08:39
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential Import Utility Exception v6
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6680
Re: Essential Import Utility Exception v6
Duplicate post
Answered here viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2126
Answered here viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2126
- 19 Jun 2019, 08:37
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential Import Utility Exception v6
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8219
Re: Essential Import Utility Exception v6
Hi,
It looks like you're currently running Java 7 and you'll need Java 8 to run the Import Utility hence the Maj/Min version error being thrown.
Cheers
Neil
It looks like you're currently running Java 7 and you'll need Java 8 to run the Import Utility hence the Maj/Min version error being thrown.
Cheers
Neil
- 09 May 2019, 16:07
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Any plan to use xslt 3.0/ xpath 3.1 ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9592
Re: Any plan to use xslt 3.0/ xpath 3.1 ?
Thanks Jean-Marie, I'll feed your comments here back to the team
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 09 May 2019, 13:07
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: attaching stats for views
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9025
Re: attaching stats for views
Hi, Just to follow up on John's comment. Matomo (formerly Piwik) is a robust analytics package you can install either on the same machine as Viewer or one within the same network. Matomo isn't too hard to set up though like all analytics software, it does require a database. Once you have your analy...
- 26 Apr 2019, 15:19
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Any plan to use xslt 3.0/ xpath 3.1 ?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 9592
Re: Any plan to use xslt 3.0/ xpath 3.1 ?
This would certainly be on our review list for Viewer 7.0. Is there any specific use-case or motivation from your perspective to moving to XSL 3.0?
- 12 Apr 2019, 20:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Issues / Pull requests on github
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8211
Re: Issues / Pull requests on github
Better to post in the forum. For now at least, the Github repo is intended to be a read-only archive of our open-source Viewer releases though we may evolve this over time.
If you have anything you'd like to share them feel free to post on here
Cheers
Neil
If you have anything you'd like to share them feel free to post on here
Cheers
Neil
- 05 Apr 2019, 16:46
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: 6.2 to 6.4 Strategic Tech Selector View not working
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18989
Re: 6.2 to 6.4 Strategic Tech Selector View not working
Great stuff. Nice way to end the week
- 05 Apr 2019, 16:16
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: 6.2 to 6.4 Strategic Tech Selector View not working
- Replies: 10
- Views: 18989
Re: 6.2 to 6.4 Strategic Tech Selector View not working
Hi, Have you upgrade the Viewer application fully from 6.2 > 6.4? The EUP upgrade file only updates the meta-model but not the actual Viewer application. If not, then that's probably the best place to start. You can find the 6.4 release on our Github account https://github.com/essentialproject/essen...
- 14 Mar 2019, 15:45
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: How to save an application provider page in PDF
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10631
Re: How to save an application provider page in PDF
Hi Julian,
So if I understand correctly, you can print from our demo site ok using the same browser and OS but not from your local version?
Are there any errors in the Browser console?
Open using F12 or Control+Shift+I
Neil
So if I understand correctly, you can print from our demo site ok using the same browser and OS but not from your local version?
Are there any errors in the Browser console?
Open using F12 or Control+Shift+I
Neil
- 13 Mar 2019, 13:40
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: How to save an application provider page in PDF
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10631
Re: How to save an application provider page in PDF
Hi Julian,
I just tested PDFing this view on our demo site https://essentialviewer.com/demo and it worked fine for me there.
Which version of Essential you running?
Which OS / Browser?
What are you using to generate the PDF?
Let me know and I'll look into it
Thanks
Neil
I just tested PDFing this view on our demo site https://essentialviewer.com/demo and it worked fine for me there.
Which version of Essential you running?
Which OS / Browser?
What are you using to generate the PDF?
Let me know and I'll look into it
Thanks
Neil
- 22 Jan 2019, 16:02
- Forum: Essential Project Suggestions
- Topic: Placing essential project opensource related contributions
- Replies: 5
- Views: 11316
Re: Placing essential project opensource related contributions
Hi, You can submit any contributions directly on this forum as attachments. If your view has additional dependencies, e.g. 3rd party libraries, please provide links to the appropriate sites so they can be reviewed and downloaded separately. This allows any users to download and explore your submissi...
- 10 Dec 2018, 16:31
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Application Provider Description problem
- Replies: 2
- Views: 7903
Re: Application Provider Description problem
Hi Julian, For Essential Open Source, the description box should support basic line breaks and is what we would recommend although the description boxes also support basic HTML formatting. This should be applied with great care however as even minor typos can cause the entire viewer to fail and tryi...
- 28 Nov 2018, 14:33
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: PDF Process Flow
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10706
Re: PDF Process Flow
Hi Richard, I've done some digging here and there are two issues at play. The first is that the feature John described earlier does indeed show a link but the feature which renders the image inline is not yet rolled out and will be available in the next release, early in 2019. Once you come to use t...
- 28 Nov 2018, 10:33
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Application Data Dependency Model - File Not Found
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8162
Re: Application Data Dependency Model - File Not Found
Hi Keith, Have you installed Graphviz as mentioned in the installation guide? See installation pre-requisites here... https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/downloads/ Some older views such as this use a library called PlantUML which depends on Graphviz. We're in the process of updating these views...
- 19 Oct 2018, 17:33
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Jobs, Skills and Actors
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6318
Re: Jobs, Skills and Actors
Duplicate post. See here viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2014
- 19 Oct 2018, 17:32
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Catalogue Views - Actors/ Roles/ Skills
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6509
Re: Catalogue Views - Actors/ Roles/ Skills
Hi Brett, All the views are indeed possible but we don't provide explicit Views out of the box for these specific requirements. Some of the information you're looking for can be found in other views. For example, in an Actor Summary, you would see the roles and skills for that specific actor. Howeve...
- 19 Oct 2018, 17:21
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: MetaModel Reference
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6341
Re: MetaModel Reference
Hi Brett, In Protege, go to File > Export to Format > HTML There are a bunch of options for customising the layout and what's exported too. We tend to make sure we've selected EA Class, EA Relation and EA Graph Relation in addition to :THING in the Root Classes box. We also check all on the Slots an...
- 11 Sep 2018, 15:07
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Tomcat Not Serving the Import Utility Page
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6196
Re: Tomcat Not Serving the Import Utility Page
Hi Will, Apologies for the delay, did you manage to resolve this already? If not, here's a couple of things that will help to move this forward. Which version of Tomcat are you using? We recommend Tomcat 8.5. The current version of the Import Utility hasn't been tested with v9 yet. We have a new ver...
- 06 Sep 2018, 10:31
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: open source and Data Management packs side by side
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5666
Re: open source and Data Management packs side by side
Hi Rajaraman, The Data Management pack views are designed to extend an existing Viewer application rather than function as a standalone application. Maybe if you could describe your motivation/requirements in a bit more detail, we could advise on the best approach but let me give you a few things to...
- 04 Sep 2018, 20:32
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Latest JDBC Driver with built in Protege JRE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4702
Re: Latest JDBC Driver with built in Protege JRE
Quick follow up... Here are a couple of links to other forums posts which have explored the same or similar type issue. https://enterprise-architecture.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1959 https://enterprise-architecture.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=1951 If you are still having issues the...
- 04 Sep 2018, 20:22
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Latest JDBC Driver with built in Protege JRE
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4702
Re: Latest JDBC Driver with built in Protege JRE
Hi Robert,
Can post some details of your setup?
Which versions of
Protege
Java
Tomcat
MySQL
Thanks
Neil
Can post some details of your setup?
Which versions of
Protege
Java
Tomcat
MySQL
Thanks
Neil
- 14 Aug 2018, 14:59
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: New views in Essential Cloud
- Replies: 9
- Views: 15942
Re: New views in Essential Cloud
Just a quick note to say we've moved this project to a new account on GitHub. It's now at
https://github.com/essentialproject/essential_viewer
Apologies for any inconvenience
Neil
https://github.com/essentialproject/essential_viewer
Apologies for any inconvenience
Neil
- 24 May 2018, 09:57
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: Issues with views - sorting using the index
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8062
Re: Issues with views - sorting using the index
Hi Karen, Thanks for spotting this bug. We've just done a fix on this and it will make it into the next release. If you want to manually update your own Viewer it's pretty easy to do. Open the files core_bl_bus_cap_model.xsl and core_bl_bus_cap_2_change_footprint.xsl . Both of these are located in t...
- 19 Apr 2018, 10:55
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Docker for the ESP
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4374
Re: Docker for the ESP
Thanks for your work on this. We're hoping to get an "official" Docker at some point but it's not made it's way to the top of our list yet. This might be a good way for some users to take a look at Essential in a non-production setting.
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 19 Apr 2018, 10:52
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: essentialinstall611.jar installation not working in console mode
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3088
Re: essentialinstall611.jar installation not working in console mode
Running in headless mode can always be challenging so it's great to hear you've finally got it working.
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 19 Apr 2018, 10:50
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: essential_import_utility: Loading. Please Wait...
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2298
Re: essential_import_utility: Loading. Please Wait...
Hi Rick,
This is a memory allocation issue. Take a read of this blog article which will give you guidelines for allocation memory to the various components
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... essential/
Cheers
Neil
This is a memory allocation issue. Take a read of this blog article which will give you guidelines for allocation memory to the various components
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... essential/
Cheers
Neil
- 26 Mar 2018, 18:41
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Multi-User Essential DB question
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2333
Re: Multi-User Essential DB question
Hi Julian, You certainly don't require a separate physical machine for the database. You can quite comfortably run the multi-user stack on a single laptop. You'll need plenty of RAM in the machine but most modern computers have 8GB+. We'd recommend running MySQL as the database as it's the most stra...
- 14 Mar 2018, 09:17
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Protege throwing "Out of memory" exception
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2497
Re: Protege throwing "Out of memory" exception
Hi, We've created a blog post which tackles many of the memory setting for setting up Essential. This includes a section on memory settings for Protege (or lack thereof) which I imagine is the likely cause of the issue. Take a look and let me know if this resolves the issue for you https://www.enter...
- 08 Mar 2018, 10:29
- Forum: Essential Cloud
- Topic: Cloud viewer identity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7448
Re: Cloud viewer identity
Hi Tudor, We have some things in the pipeline to support this and I'll definitely add your feedback to the feature requests list. In addition to the understanding which Viewer you're looking at we think know which repository you've published might be useful too. For example, you've published the &qu...
- 18 Dec 2017, 09:23
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: How to create new relation?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 3194
Re: How to create new relation?
Hi, You should try to avoid editing the PONT file directly as this could have unintended consequences for the integrity of the meta-model. If you need to change the meta-model for any reason we recommend that you extend the meta-model via the Protege UI (enable the classes and slots tabs via Project...
- 16 Oct 2017, 09:38
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Access Levels
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5131
Re: Access Levels
Hi Jason, There haven't been any changes to the security model in the Open Source version of Essential and my previous post below describes the current capabilities well. It's just read, read/write and admin at a repository level (not an entity level). There are unlikely to be any significant change...
- 02 Oct 2017, 21:17
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Bug in core_bl_bus_process_model_uml_script.xsl (viewer 6.02)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12441
Re: Bug in core_bl_bus_process_model_uml_script.xsl (viewer 6.02)
Thanks, I've logged this for investigation
- 02 Oct 2017, 21:16
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process: Performed by Organisation vs. BP Performed By Business Role vs. Stakeholder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12803
Re: Business Process: Performed by Organisation vs. BP Performed By Business Role vs. Stakeholder
Our Meta-Model documentation will likely contain the information you're looking for
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... meta-model
Thanks
Neil
https://www.enterprise-architecture.org ... meta-model
Thanks
Neil
- 02 Oct 2017, 21:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Process hierarchy
- Replies: 3
- Views: 10088
Re: Process hierarchy
Hi, In the example shown, we would model the parent object as a Capability and we typically model multiple layers of Business Capability until we reach a lowest level Business process. In practice, this results in a more robust model and lends itself to the definition of a multi level Business Capab...
- 02 Oct 2017, 21:03
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Import utility is producing only V5 projects
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2559
Re: Import utility is producing only V5 projects
Hi,
This sounds like it could be a bug in the latest release.
We'll investigate and report back
Thanks
Neil
This sounds like it could be a bug in the latest release.
We'll investigate and report back
Thanks
Neil
- 02 Oct 2017, 20:55
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Summary Level View for Technology and Business Apps
- Replies: 5
- Views: 3815
Re: Summary Level View for Technology and Business Apps
Hi David, Your "Technology Applications" are what we call "Technology Products". A Technology Product can be defined as a commercially available Technology product that an organisation can buy in order to provide Technology Components. We have some OOTB views to what you're looki...
- 25 Sep 2017, 13:14
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: The JDBC driver is not on the classpath
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2015
Re: The JDBC driver is not on the classpath
Hi, In the install guide at... https://www.enterprise-architecture.org/documentation/doc-installation/148-installer-multi-user ... you need to copy the appropriate JDBC driver file for your chosen database to the Protege install location and rename the driver file to driver0.jar The actual location ...
- 08 Sep 2017, 09:34
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process: Performed by Organisation vs. BP Performed By Business Role vs. Stakeholder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12803
Re: Business Process: Performed by Organisation vs. BP Performed By Business Role vs. Stakeholder
I've just check this and on the flow diagram the role is populated by the slot "business_process_owned_by_business_role".
Cheers
Neil
Cheers
Neil
- 08 Sep 2017, 09:30
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Annotations model
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2112
Re: Annotations model
Hi,
Have you enabled the "Collaboration Panel" from the Collaboration menu at the top of the screen?
There's also a Collaboration User Guide here and some configuration options. Have you had a look at these?
Cheers
Neil
Have you enabled the "Collaboration Panel" from the Collaboration menu at the top of the screen?
There's also a Collaboration User Guide here and some configuration options. Have you had a look at these?
Cheers
Neil
- 08 Sep 2017, 09:23
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Views for Business Activity
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7106
Re: Views for Business Activity
Hi, To date, we haven't created any views for Activities as most users have used Processes and sub-Processes to model. I'll feed this back to the team and discuss options for extending support to Business Activities in the Viewer. Given the inherited nature of the Process / Activity relationship thi...
- 08 Sep 2017, 09:14
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: EA_System under Thing in Class Browser
- Replies: 1
- Views: 6969
Re: EA_System under Thing in Class Browser
Hi,
It shouldn't
It's for internal use by Essential Cloud, our new hosted subscription version of Essential. This is in the open source release because we're committed to keeping the meta-models aligned.
Cheers
Neil
It shouldn't
It's for internal use by Essential Cloud, our new hosted subscription version of Essential. This is in the open source release because we're committed to keeping the meta-models aligned.
Cheers
Neil
- 08 Sep 2017, 09:08
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process: Performed by Organisation vs. BP Performed By Business Role vs. Stakeholder
- Replies: 5
- Views: 12803
Re: Business Process: Performed by Organisation vs. BP Performed By Business Role vs. Stakeholder
Hi Martin, 1.) between the slot "Performed by Organisations" and "Business Process Performed By Business Role" I understand the confusion here and perhaps we could have labeled these slots slightly better. Business Process Performed By Business Role - this slot looks for a logica...
- 18 Aug 2017, 13:18
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Options to Graphviz
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2126
Re: Options to Graphviz
Hi, Graphviz is used to support the PlantUML library which provides UML style rendering for some views, most notably the business process model. We have recently become aware ourselves that a vulnerability has been identified with Graphviz in version 2.34 and have updated the website to recommend ve...
- 09 Jun 2017, 11:10
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: [Viewer 6.0.1 Issue - Business Objective Summary] : Broken Links for Strategic Goal and Business Owner
- Replies: 2
- Views: 8600
Re: [Viewer 6.0.1 Issue - Business Objective Summary] : Broken Links for Strategic Goal and Business Owner
Hi Tshitshi, Thanks for spotting this. It's a small bug in the view that's easy to fix. The view is in the "business" folder of the Essential Viewer webapp and is called core_bl_bus_obj_summary.xsl. To fix this you can change line 28 from <xsl:variable name="linkClasses" select=&...
- 28 Apr 2017, 10:54
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Model - Activity not showing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18906
Re: Business Process Model - Activity not showing
Hi Keith, We discovered a similar issue very shortly after release. We've just released a minor update which addresses this and some other issues with Viewer. You can find it on the downloads page http://www.enterprise-architecture.org/downloads/ The release notes for this release can be found here ...
- 18 Apr 2017, 11:02
- Forum: Essential Open Source - Platform
- Topic: Essential Version 6 is Now Available
- Replies: 4
- Views: 20572
Essential Version 6 is Now Available
Essential Version 6 is the latest release from EAS of the world’s most popular open-source EA toolset. It is available to download for new users and as an upgrade for existing users. It is a truly major release and represents thousands of hours of effort, more than a quarter of a million lines of co...
- 28 Mar 2017, 09:09
- Forum: Essential Modelling and Viewer
- Topic: Business Process Model - Activity not showing
- Replies: 8
- Views: 18906
Re: Business Process Model - Activity not showing
Hi Keith, Just a quick follow up to say we're planning to release a new version of Essential in the next few days and this will contain an updated version of the Business Process Model which is a lot more tolerant of different modelling approaches. Perhaps you can post back if you get the chance to ...