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Nick BowlerRookie

It's all about Community

Looking for a sample Powershell script using the API

We want to keep data in a reference system and in LeanIX in synch. The administrators of the reference system are proficient in powershell, and the easiest path is a powershell script that uses the LeanIX APIs. Does anyone have a powershell script that uses the LeanIX APIs that we could use as a reference model?

Application Portfolio Management

Reclassify applications to IT components

Hi everyone,We’re currently undertaking an initiative to review and reclassify our LeanIX inventory. During this process, we’ve identified a number of fact sheets currently classified as Applications that may be more appropriately categorized as IT Components.While we’ve reviewed the definitions provided in the LeanIX documentation, we’d really appreciate hearing from the community:What criteria do you use to distinguish between an Application and an IT Component? Are there any practical examples or decision frameworks you’ve found helpful?Additionally, for those who have gone through a similar reclassification effort:Did you manually create new IT Component fact sheets, or did you find the Export/Import method more efficient? Any lessons learned or pitfalls to avoid?Thanks in advance for your insights and experiences.

Michael HuisinkveldCommunity Manager

Asia-Pacific User Group

🌟 Join Us for our Upcoming August Customer Success Office Hours! 🌟

Our next office hours are coming up again. We are looking forward to addressing your queries, sharing updates, and discussing all things LeanIX! Whether you're a long-time customer or new to our community, we welcome you to join in for an informative and engaging session. 🗓 Date: 11/08/2025🕒 Time: 1pm - 2pm AEST📍 Online: Register here To make the most of our time together, we encourage you to submit any questions you might have ahead of the meeting by simply responding to this post. Whether they’re specific challenges you’re facing, feedback on our recent updates, or topics you’d like us to cover, your input helps us tailor the session to best serve our community. We're looking forward to connecting with you and exploring your questions in detail. This is also an opportunity to exchange your ideas and thoughts with the wider community and get their input and feedback. Don't miss out on this opportunity to engage, learn, and share with fellow LeanIX users! Thank you for your continu

Jim FisherRookie

The Americas User Group

Can you set Diagram read/write permissions by role?

We have a couple of custom LeanIX roles set up in our organization, facilitated via SSO. One of these roles is associated with the majority of employees in our company, we’ll call it “RO” for short, and another is associated with the team of individuals responsible for updating these diagrams (we’ll call it "RW”). If I set the baseline permissions of a diagram to read-only, I haven’t been able to find a way to assign Read/Write permissions to members of the RW role. It looks like the only way to assign these is at the user level for every diagram we have published. The end goal is to have a sort of “diagram reference library” which, when published to, is read-only visible to the larger role group without having to manually grant write permissions to the smaller individually, per user, per diagram.Is anyone doing this today?

Beau RouseRookie

Asia-Pacific User Group

Roadmap item - #580 – Jira Asset Configuration Management Integration - Any experiences to share?

Hi SAP LeanIX community,I am keen to start a conversation around the upcoming integration between SAP LeanIX and Jira Asset & Configuration Management (Jira Assets/CMDB). I believe it’s currently in testing.This integration promises alot, bringing architecture and operational data closer together, helping with things like: Linking LeanIX Fact Sheets with Jira CIs and tickets Bi-directional updates between architecture and asset metadata Asset-aware incident and change management Better visibility and governance across transformation initiatives These use cases sound powerful on paper, but I’d love to hear from others in the community:🧠 Are you currently exploring this integration?📦 Have you joined the beta?🔍 What use cases are you aiming to support?💬 Any lessons learned or challenges you'd flag?I'll be particularly interested in understanding: Where people are choosing to master data (LeanIX vs Jira Assets) How lifecycle status, risk, or ownership metadata flows across

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Anonymous

Asia-Pacific User Group

Personal subscription/licence/instance

Love the product and use daily in a work account context. As a EA always looking at ways to improve my methods. Is there a way to get a personal (low cost!) Instance for experimentation or as part of consultancy engagements?

Roald RoosRookie

SAP LeanIX Developers

Select subtypes through Json in custom KPI

For a custom KPI I want to create a Json filter on Application subtype ‘Deployments’ but I can't get it to work. As the subtype is showed as a field in the Factsheet I added it as fieldName “subtype” and fieldValue “Deployment” but this gives an error. Is the subtype not a field? And any idea how to note it in Json? { "type": "none", "filters": [ { "type": "equals", "fieldName": "subtype", "fieldValue": "Deployment" } ] },

Michael HuisinkveldCommunity Manager

Asia-Pacific User Group

🌟 Join us for our upcoming SAP LeanIX User Group Sydney - The EA Exchange 🌟

To all LeanIX users and enthusiasts! This is your opportunity to join us in Sydney for our next in-person User Group where we will discuss SAP LeanIX - An Enterprise Architecture tool not only for EA. This is your chance to hear from industry leaders about adoption stragies and driving engagement with a wide range of internal stakeholders. 🗓 Date: 21st of August🕑 Time: 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM | Networking Reception: 5:15 PM - 6:00 PM📍 Location: SAP Sydney Office – Level 13, 1 Denison Street, North Sydney NSW 2060 Join us for an insightful afternoon where we delve deep into strategies to engage internal stakeholders beyond the architecture team. We're excited to feature presentations from seasoned industry leaders:👉 Ampcontrol @Neil MacKellar - LeanIX Unleashed: Beyond Application Management. LeanIX is well known for mapping and managing applications—connecting EOL, integrations, and initiatives. What happens when you push past the basics? Neil explores how to evolve beyond LeanIX 1.0.1

Application Portfolio Management

Query regarding consolidating Business Capabilities

Hello to Everyone!I am new to this group, please redirect me to older post if this question has been answered in the past. I am basically trying to consolidate the business capabilities in my SAP LeanIX instance from non-standard capabilities (~380 of them) to standard. Is there a best/smarter way to do it?Thanks!RegardsSouvik

Jiwon LeeRookie

It's all about Community

Signing in for workspace

Hello, I got invited as admin of a LeanIX workspace, but I can’t sign in. It’s my first time using LeanIX.Could I get any help?Thank you.

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Nick BowlerRookie

It's all about Community

Looking for a sample Powershell script using the API

We want to keep data in a reference system and in LeanIX in synch. The administrators of the reference system are proficient in powershell, and the easiest path is a powershell script that uses the LeanIX APIs. Does anyone have a powershell script that uses the LeanIX APIs that we could use as a reference model?

Application Portfolio Management

Reclassify applications to IT components

Hi everyone,We’re currently undertaking an initiative to review and reclassify our LeanIX inventory. During this process, we’ve identified a number of fact sheets currently classified as Applications that may be more appropriately categorized as IT Components.While we’ve reviewed the definitions provided in the LeanIX documentation, we’d really appreciate hearing from the community:What criteria do you use to distinguish between an Application and an IT Component? Are there any practical examples or decision frameworks you’ve found helpful?Additionally, for those who have gone through a similar reclassification effort:Did you manually create new IT Component fact sheets, or did you find the Export/Import method more efficient? Any lessons learned or pitfalls to avoid?Thanks in advance for your insights and experiences.

Roald RoosRookie

SAP LeanIX Developers

Select subtypes through Json in custom KPI

For a custom KPI I want to create a Json filter on Application subtype ‘Deployments’ but I can't get it to work. As the subtype is showed as a field in the Factsheet I added it as fieldName “subtype” and fieldValue “Deployment” but this gives an error. Is the subtype not a field? And any idea how to note it in Json? { "type": "none", "filters": [ { "type": "equals", "fieldName": "subtype", "fieldValue": "Deployment" } ] },

Application Portfolio Management

Query regarding consolidating Business Capabilities

Hello to Everyone!I am new to this group, please redirect me to older post if this question has been answered in the past. I am basically trying to consolidate the business capabilities in my SAP LeanIX instance from non-standard capabilities (~380 of them) to standard. Is there a best/smarter way to do it?Thanks!RegardsSouvik

Jiwon LeeRookie

It's all about Community

Signing in for workspace

Hello, I got invited as admin of a LeanIX workspace, but I can’t sign in. It’s my first time using LeanIX.Could I get any help?Thank you.

EricSophomore

It's all about Community

Where did you (all) start?

Hi everyone,as I already mentioned in my personal introduction, I`m a freshman, so I hope that question doesn`t reach to far.Where did you start, as you started with LeanIX (EA)? (I hope the following thoughts narrow down a bit what I mean.)I understood, that you should start with Business Capabilities - which kind of makes sense. In the second step, you connect the application landscape to these business capabilities. Now to the…. First question: I read, that todays approach in EA is more agile (project by project). Means for me, you shouldn`t create that monster map, that shows “all” the dependencies and connections between business and IT. Is that correct?So have you generated your first content by joining a first project (e.g. new application XY) and then iteratively grew your EA by continuing that “process” (project by project by project)? Or have you at least started with the core applications or something similar? Second question:How “deep” your information is defined (by partit

geoffrey.lowneyVeteran

Application Portfolio Management

When does deleting a Transformation result in other fact sheets being archived?

Hey LeanIX team.I create a Transformation such as Change Application Technology. I want to specify a New IT Component that does not already exist, so I type the name and click “+ Create new fact sheet...” in the popup menu, and that results in the fact sheet being created (as expected).If I delete the Transformation then the newly-created fact sheet gets automatically archived. This happened (in a simple test) even if I had added a description to the referenced fact sheet.Creating and then deleting a Transformation that references an existing fact sheet does not cause the referenced fact sheet to be archived (in my test, the existing fact sheet had lots of other data and relationships).Muy question is: What are the rules defining when fact sheets referenced by Transformations are auto-archived as part of deleting the Transformation? e.g. is it related to lifecycle dates or other data on the referenced fact sheet.Thanks

fredrika.slikkersLeanIX Team

The Americas User Group

Save the Date: San Francisco VIP Customer-Only Session + Lunch - August 21st

Join us for an exclusive, customer-only VIP session ahead of the San Francisco SAP Transformation Excellence Tour. This special session is designed specifically for LeanIX and Signavio customers.Morning VIP Session (Customer-Only): Reserved exclusively for SAP LeanIX and Signavio customers Connect with peers in the Bay Area Share best practices and learn how others are driving transformation with SAP LeanIX and Signavio Choose your focus: LeanIX, Signavio, or both — sessions tailored to your interest Morning coffee & refreshments ☕ and catered networking lunch 🍽️ Afternoon Agenda Highlights: Explore how to combine enterprise architecture with process excellence Learn strategies for continuous business transformation Hear from experts and customer stories 📄 View Agenda + Register HereWe look forward to hosting you!

graziela.sRookie

SAP LeanIX Developers

Factsheet Fields in an ADR

Is it possible to use a link to a factsheet field to render it in an ADR?

kedar.mahajaniRookie

The Americas User Group

Best Practices for Capturing IT Components and Managing Granularity in LeanIX

I’m currently working on capturing all IT components used across our organization in LeanIX. While using the reference catalog is helpful—especially for details like lifecycle (e.g., end-of-life dates)—the list is becoming quite large and difficult to manage.I’d like to understand how other teams are approaching this:What level of granularity are you using when modeling IT components? Do you include every tool/library/framework or focus only on critical or enterprise-level technologies? How do you balance accuracy with maintainability when using the reference catalog?Would love to hear your strategies or lessons learned for keeping the IT component list meaningful yet manageable.

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