Object hints in Architecture views

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Nolen, Keith C

9 maart 2023 23:04

This wish is inspired by a feature of Archi, a free modeling tool. 

• What is your wish?
  When clicking on an object or a relationship in an architecture view, provide a Hints box that describes the type, legal relationships, typical uses, and examples.
  
  
• What is the problem you encounter?
  For those less familiar with the objects and relationships, this would accelerate modeling, decrease the learning curve, encourage proper usage, and discourage improper usage and workarounds. 
  
  
• Why do you want this wish?
  To support my community of users most of whom are new to Archimate, and to reduce the support burden upon myself and BlueDolphin

• Do you have a workaround? And if so, what is it?
  Provide links to other Archimate references. These are not context-sensitive, however. 

• How would you ideally solve the problem?
  Implement the feature as described. Could perhaps be implemented as a tab on the same control as the Object Browser.

 

• How big is the problem on a scale from 1 to 5?
  2 - would be quite useful but is not critical

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• Officiële opmerking

  

  Sebastiaan Bosman

  28 maart 2023 11:29

  Hi Nolen, Keith C, 

  Thank you for posting your wish and your patience while we were looking into an answer. 

  We do have parts of the solution to your comment on our roadmap, and have made a start in creating such functionality in the BlueDolphin platform. However, further development has been put on hold as we prioritized different functionalities in our past and upcoming releases, unfortunately. 

  Still, we are currently working on a course to teach the basics of ArchiMate to help those who are less familiar with the modeling language get up and running with Enterprise Architecture and BlueDolphin more easily. This is projected for release in Q2. 
  I hope that will help alleviate some of the support you encounter, and will help to standardize your ways of working. 

  Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns about this topic. 
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  Nolen, Keith C

  20 april 2023 19:50

  Idea - this could be done with a specialization of the ObjectViewer functionality. 

  Behavior:

  1. When clicking on an object in a view, an additional tab appears in the ObjectViewer 
  2. The tab title is the name of the object type
  3. The tab shows the standard description of the object from the OMG ArchiMate reference
  4. The tab lists the valid relationships in the instance for that object type
  5. Display of the tab is controlled at the user profile level with these options:
     A. Always show
     B. Show only in edit mode
     C. Always hide

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  Roeland Loggen

  9 juni 2023 08:39

  Great idea. Same for BPMN!

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