How to Create an Application Landscape · Copyright 2019, Dragon1, 24. Roadmap March 2019 Content Viewer 1. Improving opening speed of visualizations (5 - 10 seconds) Import

Copyright 2019, Dragon1, www.dragon1.com

How to Create anApplication Landscape

A Dragon1 Tutorial

26 februari 2019

v0.6 draft

http://www.dragon1.com/


Contents

1. Create Cabinet Structure

2. Import Data

3. Enter/Update Data

4. Enter/Update Attributes

5. Create Model Entity

6. Create Relationships

7. Watch the Model

8. Create Views

9. Create Visualization

10. Watch the Visualization

11. Publish the Visualization

12. Watch Visualizations Overview

13. Watch Visualization in Content Viewer

14. Place comment on visualization

15. Search/Filter Visualization

16. Hide/Show Data Using Buttons

17. Highlight Data Using Buttons

18. Show/Hide related Entities Using Model relationships

19. Principles

20. Standards

21. Rules

22. Update Landscape with 5 new applications

23. Glossary of Terms



Use Case

The use case for this tutorial is:• how to create a clickable application landscape• that provides overview of process-application dependencies• that provides insight in application metadata• that can be used for deduplicating functionality and replacing applications• that can be used to reduce IT costs• that can be used for mitigating IT risks• that saves time when updating / adding data, like new applications or metadata• that has buttons to show only parts/views of the application landscape• that is based on imported data containing applications and metadata



Exercise

• In this tutorial we are going to create an application landscape that can be used for various goals.

• In order to have an application landscape on Dragon1 we need to:

• 1 – create a cabinet structure where we can store and manage data in. The benefit of this is we can prevent typos and mistakes in data names and improve reuse.

• 2 – create a model

• 3 - Create views

• 4 – create a visualization

• 5 – publish a visualization

Once we have the visualization of the app lansca people canmanage with it

• View apps that introduce risks, ....



1. Create a Cabinet structureHow to create a cabinet structure:https://www.dragon1.com/help/architecture-repository/setup-dossier-structure


https://www.dragon1.com/help/architecture-repository/setup-dossier-structure


2. Import Data (I)How to import data:https://www.dragon1.com/help/import-data

We will create a correct import file for your data today.


https://www.dragon1.com/help/import-data


2. Import Data (II) – the original dataHow to import data:https://www.dragon1.com/help/import-data

We will create a correct import file for your data today.


https://www.dragon1.com/help/import-data


3. Enter/Update Data for EntitiesHow to enter data:https://www.dragon1.com/help/enter-data

Use the reference field to make an entity unique for the cabinet.


https://www.dragon1.com/help/enter-data


4. Enter/Update Data for AttributesHow to enter data for user defined attributes:https://www.dragon1.com/help/enter-data




5. Create Model EntityHow to create a model:https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-model




6. Create Model RelationshipsHow to create relationships:https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-relationship


https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-relationship


7. Watch the Model in the Visual DesignerHow to create/update relationships by drawing:https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-relationship


https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-relationship


8. Create View (as filter of a model)How to create a view:https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-view


https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-view


9. Create a Visualization (linked to views)How to create a visualization:https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-visualization


https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-visualization


10. Watch Visualization (Click View Data)How to create a visualization:https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-visualization


https://www.dragon1.com/help/create-visualization


11. Publish VisualizationHow to publish a visualization:https://www.dragon1.com/help/publish-diagram-in-content-viewer

Fill in a project name for filtering


https://www.dragon1.com/help/publish-diagram-in-content-viewer


12. Watch Visualizations OverviewHow to publish a visualization:https://www.dragon1.com/help/publish-diagram-in-content-viewer


https://www.dragon1.com/help/publish-diagram-in-content-viewer


13. Watch Visualization in Content ViewerUsing the content viewer:https://www.dragon1.com/help/content-viewer

You can export it to PDF


https://www.dragon1.com/help/content-viewer


14. Place CommentUsing the content viewer:https://www.dragon1.com/help/content-viewer




15. Search/Filter VisualizationUsing the content viewer:https://www.dragon1.com/help/content-viewer

If you type in the name of an attribute, like in the Search field, you get two dialog boxes: one with the occurring values of that attribute and one with the entities that have that value.




16. Hide/Show Data Using ButtonsCreating Buttons:https://www.dragon1.com/help/button-visualization-view-selector

The green buttons “Business Area View” and “Process View” were clicked to hide the business areas and processes.

Show rule for three buttons.


https://www.dragon1.com/help/button-visualization-view-selector


17. Highlight Data Using ButtonsCreating Buttons:https://www.dragon1.com/help/button-visualization-view-selector

Here the button “Server End of Life is 2016” was clicked, coloring the applications red that have this for attribute value.


https://www.dragon1.com/help/button-visualization-view-selector


18. Show related Entities using Relationships (I)Show Related Entities (How to work with Visual Items:https://www.dragon1.com/help/visual-items

If you have set “showrelatedentities” as attribute for a visual item in the Visual Designer, upon clicking an entity, the related entities are shown and the not related entities of the same class are hidden.First there was a click on Manufacturing, then there was a click on Procure to Pay. Then there was a click Oracle EBS


https://www.dragon1.com/help/visual-items


18. Show related Entities using Relationships (II)Show Related Entities (How to work with Visual Items:https://www.dragon1.com/help/visual-items


https://www.dragon1.com/help/visual-items


23. Glossary of Terms

• Repository

• Cabinet

• Dossier

• Folder

• Data

• Model

• View

• Visualization

• Visualization Template

• Content Viewer

• Entity

• Entity Class

• Attribute

• Relationship

• Button



24. RoadmapMarch 2019

Content Viewer

1. Improving opening speed of visualizations (5 - 10 seconds)

Import

1. Improving import of ArchiMate data (5 – 10 seconds)

Architecture Repository

1. Improving open speed of cabinet (5 - 10) seconds

2. Easily adding User Defined Attributes in the Architecture Repository

3. Easily enforcing and working with unique Reference IDs

4. Easily creating/editing large number of relationships in the Architecture Repository

5. Easily deleting folder with data

6. Easily adding data to a model via import

Visual Designer

1. Easily adding data attributes on visual items

2. Easily drawing and instantiating relationships

3. Easily creating thumbnails for visualizations on Save

4. Easily creating an Architecture Center (via publication settings)

5. Easily linking Visualizations to Projects (via publication settings)

6. Easily modeling ArchiMate with smart tools



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