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HBuchner

Dear Team,
i downloaded the new essential import utility 2.10.1 and am trying to upload data. It looks, that my import_specification_5.8 is outdated.
The import tries to load appplication lifecylces from a separate "application lifecycle" worksheet, whereas the data has moved to "REFERENCE_DATA" in ...

HBuchner

Dear Team,
i have created a large import file using the Essential playbook and the Essential Import Module (~3200 applications). It generated a DUP-File import with ~320k lines. After resolution of a few unicode special character escape topics, i was able to upload the file to Protegé.
When i am now ...

HBuchner

Hi Neil,
yes, thanks for the reply.
Holger

HBuchner

Hi John,
thanks for providing the new version 6.21.7 of the essential viewer on GitHub. I was able to launch the viewer and test it with some data, that i have on meta model version 6.20.6 (EUP from release notes page).
Not sure, what updates are needed to have all new views in the viewer supported ...

HBuchner

Hi Terry,
cool stuff. Thanks for your brilliant ideas and contributions!
Holger

HBuchner

Dear EAS Team,
thanks for the super fast Hot-Fix !
The Version 6.21.1 published yesterday fixes the problem and the view works now.

Screenshot 2025-10-16 132653.png

Holger

HBuchner

I re-checked with Viewer 6.21.1 and it it working now fine.

Excel-Export-Working 2025-10-16 085638.png

Thanks for the fast fix.
Holger

HBuchner

Cool, I’ll try out and give feedback

HBuchner

Hi John,
i clicked in various ways on the selection right for the views or on the selection left for the objects / slots.
In any case, it does not generate an Excel-Sheet at all.
In the new version of the standalone and baseline repo the launchpad exporter is disabled and i enabled it first.
Holger

HBuchner

Hi John,
thanks for getting back to me. I've send you log files from my tomcat on the not opening Application Provider Summary View.
Here at work, the application information dependency view is working correctly. I need to check on my computer at home to re-produce the above error.

As the ...

HBuchner

Dear Essential Team,
the Lauchpad Export generates a broken Excel File.
Steps to reproduce:
1) install Essential Standalone 6.21
2) open Essential baseline 6.21 model
3) import lauchpad_loader.dup
4) upload repository to "http://localhost:8080/essential_viewer"
5) navigate to Lauchpad Exporter
6 ...

HBuchner

Hi Terry, Declan,
very intersting discussion. I had in mind to modify the one page editor from Terry to be able to add an application with modules, APIs and dependencies (to other applications) as well as to human actors. If successful, it should be possible to export a dup file to add an ...

HBuchner

Dear Team,

i have applied the recent meta data model updates and installed the new essential viewer 6.21.

The new export & Launchpad section look great ! Thanks for improving the user experience and the option to use external IDs.

When i try to view my existing data, the Application Provider ...

HBuchner

Hi xiaoqi,

you can have a look on the one page editor from Terry. It should at least be possible to use them for initial data capture.
[url]https://enterprise-architecture.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=3146 [/url]
You can download the complete HTML page from his GitHub repository and enter data. You ...

HBuchner

Hi Neil,
thanks for publishing the new relaeses on Gandhi's birthday. I nice gift.
I'll investigate during the weekend.
Holger
[url]https://github.com/essentialproject/essential_viewer/releases/tag/6.21.0 [/url]
[url]https://github.com/essentialproject/essential_import_utility/releases/tag/2.9.4 ...

HBuchner

Dear Xiaoqi,

if you go to the Essential Viewer Demo website (https://essentialviewer.com/demo/report?XML=reportXML.xml ), there are in the essential launchpad plus section examples how to populate an Excel-Sheet and import specs to import that Excel-Sheet for the strategy development portion ...

HBuchner

Wow Terry, what a great job! The missing Editors for Essential_Viewer are really the biggest thing users miss to maintain data. Protegé is nice, but needs lots of training.

HBuchner

cool, i will have a look at it. I created a repository on GitHub (very basic), where i'm replacing the viewer.xml file prior to deploy a .war instance on a tomcat azure app service. I wasn't skilled enough to solve the SSO topic from tomcat in the app-service to Azure AD.
Holger

HBuchner

Hi John,
thanks for getting back on this. I used the official Enterprsie Viewer Demo from the Website:
https://essentialviewer.com/report?XML=reportXML.xml&PMA=&XSL=view_library.xsl&LABEL=View%20Library&cl=en-gb
Essential Spreahsheet Exporter 2025-02-10 162827.png
Used the "Support" - "Launchpad ...

HBuchner

Dear Team,
i have downloaded the demo repository from the Essential Viewer Demo 6_20_3. When opening the file in MS Excel 365, there are some refences missing (see attached screenshot).

Screenshot 2025-02-05 201612.png

Perhaps some meta date needs to be fixed here.
Cheers, Holger

HBuchner

We are using more and more SaaS services or PaaS services. The application as such is represented as Application Service, but we do have usually staging like DEV, QA, PROD and these do have not different hardware (as we don't know), but different tenant IDs and sometimes different endpoints to ...

HBuchner

Dear Neil, John, Marie,
i was on vacation and couldn't follow up on my initial request. The good news: it is solved .

After setting up a Tomcat server as Azure App-Service, i am deploying the essential_viewer by copying the essential_viewer.war file into the Tomcat webapp root directory and ...

HBuchner

Dear Neil,

thanks fo your reply too! I‘ll try to figure out, how I can map the folder in the Azure App Service configuration.

I‘ll keep you updated on the progress.

Thanks for your patience with me.

Holger

HBuchner

Dear Jean-Marie,

the log-files i could download from Azure look ok (Catalina log):

10-Jul-2024 15:27:37.845 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup.VersionLoggerListener.log Server version name: Apache Tomcat/9.0.88
10-Jul-2024 15:27:37.846 INFO [main] org.apache.catalina.startup ...

HBuchner

Hi John,

i deployed the open source viewer to a Tomcat running on Microsoft Azure App Services and am able to connect to it via Webbrowser. the URL is something like:
<b>https://xxxxxx.azurewebsites.net/essential_viewer/report?XML=reportXML.xml&XSL=home.xsl&cl=en-gb&LABEL=Home</b>
Now i wanted to ...

HBuchner

Dear Team,

thanks for providing the new version of the Essential Project EA Open Source Tool.
On the web-page, there is a typo in the date. We already have 2024.

EAS 2024-06-10 160003.png

Just a hint

HBuchner

Hi Neil, thanks for the fast reply. I'll try and it should work out then.
Holger
BTW: i changed the form and it works fine now !
Thank you so much.

HBuchner

Dear Essential Team,
i'm trying to edit the business criticality in Protege. When i'm scrolling down on the composite application provider form, it shows the field for "business criticality" (screenshot 1).
Screenshot 2024-04-24 200834.png
As soon as i am moven the mouse over it, the field ...

HBuchner

Hi John,
the URL points to a non existing file:
Business Process Hierarchy Application Mapping:
http://XXX/essential_viewer/report?XML=reportXML.xml&XSL=business/core_bl_process_maps.xsl&LABEL=Business%20Process%20Hierarchy%20Application%20Mapping&cl=en-gb
Error Message:
Oops! Essential ...

HBuchner

Dear Neil,
thanks for the fast reply.
Holger

HBuchner

I just wanted to support Ralph. Some views in the Viewer 19.2 are not supported / missing:
Business Process Hierarchy Application Mapping
Value Stream Canvas
Value Streams Application Mapping

HBuchner

When i'm pushing my repository from Protegé (Repository version 16.8.8) to Viewer 19.2, everything work fine, until i request the images to be generated.
Then the pushing to the repository runs ~ 80% and then the JRE crashes during rendering:
----------------------
Set type on 253000 instances ...

HBuchner

Hi Neil,

thanks for providing the update packs for the meta model for Open Source.

HBuchner

Will Essential publish an update pack to upgrade existing repositories from 16.8 to 16.9?

HBuchner

Hi there,

i'm trying to upload additional applications and application services into essential using the import utility 2.7 provided with essential 6.18.8 stand alone.
It imports the applications and the application services and the relationships between them, but the attributes like application ...

HBuchner

Hi John,
couldn't reproduce the issue again.
Yes, please close

HBuchner

Dear Team,

i see, you are puiblishing a new open source version 6.18.8 for installation, but there does not seem to be an update file for upgrading existing repositories to 6.8.18.
Have i simply missed out something or is it still pending and to come.

Holger

HBuchner

Dear John,
here's the generated export file:

launchpad_export_finance.zip

I have manually renamed the second worksheet tab into "Technology Products2"
If needed, i can share privately the repository file too.
Holger

HBuchner

Hi John,
1) i used the Launchpad Spreadsheet export View (Support - Launchpad Spreadsheet Export View)
2) i selected all Views under "Foundation Views"
3) the exported file is called "launchpad_export.xml" i just renamed it.
4) yes, i can share the file privately (tomorrow from the office).
Holger

HBuchner

When generating the lauchpad export file (XML) with Essential Viewer 6.18 based on an Essential Repository with Metamodel 6.18, the viewer generates an XML file accordingly. But when I'm trying to open it with Microsoft Excel 365, it throws an error message saying: too many tags.
Any hint how to ...

HBuchner

Dear John, thanks for the reply. The Website was updated and now contains the list with all DUB files.
Holger

HBuchner

You have published the new version of the Essential tool (V6.18), but there is no schema update file yet. By when can we expect it to be published to be able to upgrade existing schemas?
Thanks in advance

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