Unanswered questions

I’m currently trying to integrate Signavio Glossary data into LeanIX so that it appears on our Fact Sheets.The data being returned from Signavio looks like this: comment: {"updateTimestamp":"2025-10-03T08:06:53.424320227Z", "useAlternativeName":false, "dictionaryCategorySyncDescriptorGlossaryCategoryId":"43c121f01da842b29d0f1e03c238e68d"}, externalId: 07770c1bb23f449f8655bf96d3d1f310, externalUrl: https://editor.signavio.com/p/glossary#gitem=07770c1bb23f449f8655bf96d3d1f310, externalVersion: , status: LINKED On LeanIX, I can see that the field itself is being updated, but I can’t get this LINKED data (like externalUrl or Glossary info) to actually display on the Fact Sheet screen.Current situation: The integration with Signavio is completed and status: LINKED is returned. The externalUrl contains the Glossary URL. However, the Glossary URL and name are not displayed on the Fact Sheet itself. Questions: How can I map or configure this kind of LINKED Signavio Glossary data so that it

As far I could find in LeanIX documentation, LeanIX supports searches by fact sheet name, display name, description, tags, and sometimes alias.It seems that enabling other textual fields to be designated as searchable could provide significant value. Is this being considered as a future capability?In the meantime, are there any workarounds that could offer similar functionality?

I wonder if LeanIX supports for the multi-level bullet and number lists in text-area fields. I cannot find how to do it natively with lists. It is somewhat problematic and cumbersome to do the indentation manually.Also, it would be fantastic if text-area would allow more HTML editing capabilities like inserting images, text colors, etc..

Hi Community,I wanted to ask how you in your modeling asess / score the criticality of systems that are only periodically critical, such as for payroll or financial closing capabilities.Best regards,Thomas

I need to trigger an external automation when a fact sheet is updated to set a parent.I am observing that the FACT_SHEET_UPDATE webhook trigger consistently passes the parent as the event fact sheet in the payload, rather than the child that was updated.Can I safely assume that the child fact sheet, whose parent was just set, will always appear as the last entry in the parent’s relation edge of type relToChild?

We have introduced SSO with Entra ID. This means we do not have to look at the access of users in LeanIX anymore. Also for stopping the access by removing them from our IdP. But what if a user is also subscribed as an owner of a factsheet. We use the Quality Seal and if it breaks the e-mail is send to a users email that's no longer in the company. So we need to be alerted if a user is deactivated so we can transfer ownership.Of course we can do a manual check but would love to have a automated process so we are looking for some best practices. How do you take care of deactivating user and transfer ownership.  

Good afternoon, We would like to enhance method of realizing a TIME assessment.We decided to customize the way of calculating TIME and add parameters to the way we calculate functional and business fit.For the functional fit, we have the following parameters: “Business need coverage”; “Future potential”; “User satisfaction”; “Data”; “Time to market”and for the technical fit: “Reliance on Skills and Subject Matter Experts”; “Maintainability”; “Architectural Alignment” ; “Production stability”.All these parameters have a specific weight and we then use LeanIX calculation to determine a functional and business fit based on the rating of these parametersIn general, what is your method to determine functional and business fit, are you using some parameters, do you calculate the result outside of LeanIX…?Happy to hear any feedback on how you have conducted a project of realizing a TIME assessment!Thank you very much

I have a need to report on factsheet changes. however to use the audit logs, i have to query them factsheet by factsheet which is expensive. So I was looking to find the rev as of a date and get that rev data and compare with current version.Any other suggestions are welcome too

Un reto importante con LeanIX es conseguir que los diagramas estén siempre alineados con el repositorio.Algunas dudas que me surgen:¿Tenéis a alguien dedicado a mantener los diagramas actualizados? ¿Son los propios Application Owners los que se encargan de reflejar cada cambio? ¿Cómo garantizáis que un diagrama no se quede obsoleto y deje de ser útil?En mi experiencia, si los diagramas no se mantienen, rápidamente pierden valor. Me encantaría ver qué prácticas usáis para evitarlo.

Hola comunidad LeanIX. Existe una metodologia a seguir en la implementación o rollout de LeanIX?De antemano gracias por sus respuestas.Saludos,Carolina González

Hi In my organization, we master applications in ServiceNow where Architects set up an application & multiple teams (Product, Support etc.) enhance the application with relevant details.We are working to pivot to LeanIX where Architects master the application in LeanIX, send the application to ServiceNow & other teams carry on enhancing the application.I am assuming we are not the first one doing such a change. I wish to connect & learn from LeanIX users who have done such a change in the past & if at all this is a good idea!Please share your experience on the journey & any best practices you recommend. ThanksHimanshu

Bonjour,Nous sommes en train d’adopter le Business Reference Catalog de LeanIX pour définir notre Business Capability Map.Si d’un point de vue métier ça semble répondre très bien à notre société, je me pose néanmoins des questions concernant les capacités de gestion des Masterdatas. En ce qui nous concerne, par exemple, les produits-articles et services, les Business Partners (Magasins, entrepôts, usines..) , les composants d’un produit, etc.. Donc une capacité de support, très cross dans l’entreprise car la data est utilisée partout.Mes questions, si vous avez mis en place cette Capability Map basée sur la Business Reference catalog de LeanIx  : Avez-vous identifié une BC dédiée à la gestion de ces Masterdata? Que pensez-vous de la BC “Asset Management / Asset Information Management / Asset Data and Information Management” qui a pour définition : Ability to maintain and archive asset master, transactional, time series, and events data. It also involves the same management of business

Cada empresa organiza de forma distinta sus equipos de EA y la gestión de LeanIX.🤔 Algunas preguntas para abrir debate:¿Qué perfiles forman parte de vuestro equipo de EA? ¿Quién se encarga del día a día de LeanIX: un arquitecto dedicado, varios arquitectos repartidos, o incluso perfiles de negocio/IT? ¿Tenéis “lecciones aprendidas” o recomendaciones sobre lo que funciona y lo que no?Me encantaría conocer cómo lo tenéis organizado y qué aprendizajes podéis compartir. Seguro que ayuda a quienes están en fases iniciales. 💡 

Hi All, i am new to LeanIX, as well to community. i am working on Data flow diagram and having lots of challenges. we have SFTP service which is used by multiple application for file transfer. I added my SFTP application as an application factsheet and added sftp as a provided Interface. below are my questions if anyone can help.let's assume one application is only sending the file outbound and second file only receive the file incoming, how i can showcase it? in interface factsheet i can select either incoming, outbound or bidirectional.  If i add an arrow manual (like we add in free flow diagram) we can link to any factsheet like interface etc. For eg. we can add a manual added box to any application factsheet. is there any way i can get a label based on data flow like inbound file transfer or outbound file transfer based on direction of the arrow automatically.Thanks

Hello LeanIX Community 👋I’m currently working on Application Portfolio Lifecycle Management (APLM) and one of the most important steps I’ve found is to get the field model right before diving into deeper analysis or tool automation. To begin with - I’m going with below but, at this point I’m underconfident - given the new role. NameApplication StatusApplication TypeBudget OwnerFunctional OwnerBusiness CriticalityDescriptionHosting TypePerson ResponsiblesubtypeLifecycleBusiness CapabilitiesFunction User GroupGeography User GroupFunctional FitStrategic Application TypeTIME ClassificationTIME Classification DescriptionQuestion for the community: Which fields have been the most useful or impactful in your APLM journey? What do you think of above fields - good enough? Are there any fields you started with but later dropped as unnecessary noise? How did you drive cross-team agreement on field definitions? Looking forward to learning from your experiences. 

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

En mi equipo estamos trabajando con la entidad Interface en LeanIX y nos hemos encontrado con varios retos:🔹 Nomenclatura: ¿Cómo nombrarlas para que sean fáciles de identificar y al mismo tiempo legibles cuando aparecen en los diagramas?🔹 Volumen: Algunas aplicaciones pueden tener decenas de interfaces, lo que hace que registrarlas y mantenerlas al día sea un esfuerzo muy grande.🔹 Consistencia: Cuando cada responsable registra solo las interfaces de “su” aplicación, sin alinearse con la aplicación con la que se conecta, corremos el riesgo de tener duplicidades o desajustes.🤔 ¿Cómo lo gestionáis vosotros en vuestras organizaciones?¿Usáis convenciones de nombres estándar? ¿Definís roles claros para quién crea y mantiene las interfaces? ¿O simplificáis y solo registráis las más relevantes?Estoy segura de que no somos los únicos con esta dificultad y que compartir experiencias aquí nos puede ayudar a todos. 💡

Uno de los conceptos que suele generar más dudas en LeanIX es el de Platform.🤔 ¿Qué entendemos por Platform exactamente?¿Un sistema operativo como Windows o Linux? ¿Un servicio de base de datos en la nube como AWS RDS? ¿Una suite de productos como Salesforce o SAP?En mi experiencia, hay un poco de confusión sobre cómo usar esta entidad y cómo diferenciarla de Applications o IT Components.👉 Me interesa mucho saber cómo lo modeláis vosotros:¿Qué criterios utilizáis para decidir qué entra como Platform? ¿Qué beneficios habéis encontrado en modelarlo bien? ¿Os ha ayudado a sacar más valor en reporting o racionalización?Creo que este tema puede ayudarnos a estandarizar prácticas y aprovechar mejor la potencia del metamodelo. 💡

Dear Community,I’m looking for a quick help. I’m unable to reset my password for the demo workspace provided. I’ve tried resetting the password but I’m not getting any email for password reset.Kindly note that I’m able to login into the actual tool and able to launch Academy from there.I’m also unable to update my email id in the academy profile. I am giving the same password which I logged in into the tool, but that isn’t working. 

Bonjour à tous,Je suis encore dans mes 20 prémiers jours à LeanIX et j’ai donc grand besoin de vous ! :)et je suis challenger par le DSI sur la vision « partielle » que propose les rapports sur le coùt des applications.En effet, les rapports par défaut exploitent le coût porter par la relation entre application et composant, il me semble.Donc j’ai renseigner sur ce lien les coûts de licences (ex SalesForce) ou d’hébergement.Mais donc il manquerait le coût de la TMA (prestataire gérant la maintenance de nos applications).Je m’interroge sur la meilleure manière de le modéliser ces informations (a minima :nom du fournisseur, date fin contrat, coût annuel).Dois-je modifier le métamodel pour ajouter des attributs sur la fiche « application » ?Dois-je créer une nouvelle type de fiche, comme me le suggérer ChatGPT ?Dois-je modéliser la « TMA » comme un composant de type service ?Es ce que LeanIx n’est juste pas l’outil pour ce type de question (éloigné de l’EA).Je vous avoue que modifier le m

Good Day. I would like to know if there is a way on how to create technical programmatically?Use case: We are trying to automate many queries and mutations vie pipeline and central hub. The token that technical user provided will be stored inside or in a vault. We don’t want anyone to see the token that is being created.Is there a way for this?

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.