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  • December 13, 2024
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How on earth do you get the interfaces map to work?

It is frustrating me to high heavens, and I am ready to cal it quits with the entire LeanIX MESS.

 

I have active interfaces. I have Active provider applications. I have Active Consume Interfaces.

Why on earth is there still a message about missing data?
What is this Circle Map report looking at in order for it to include “inventory”.
Whilst on the topic, shouldn’t it give a more descriptive set of data, or a “true” create from scratch reporting tool to get at least operational data out of the application?

 

Help, please.

 

Best answer by Thomas Schreiner

Hi ​@mvanrooijen. Don’t worry - we are here to help.

This message means that some of your interfaces are not shown, because they are not complete.

In order to be shown on the interface circle map, an interface needs:

  • a provider application
  • a consumer application
  • the relations to those apps must be active (either active from / active to is not set, or it’s set so that the current day is in the active period).
  • the fact sheets themselves can have any lifecycle status whatsoever, I‘m just not sure if End Of Life interfaces are shown by default.

Short answer: Don’t worry about the warning, and if it bothers you, make sure all interfaces have a provider and consumer.

An easy way to find out:

  • go to the inventory
  • go to interfaces
  • switch to table mode
  • make the columns for provider and consumer app visible.

This way, you see at the first glance where you have gaps, even without a fancy inventory filter.

Good luck!

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    Thomas Schreiner
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    • Thomas Schreiner
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    • December 13, 2024

    Hi ​@mvanrooijen. Don’t worry - we are here to help.

    This message means that some of your interfaces are not shown, because they are not complete.

    In order to be shown on the interface circle map, an interface needs:

    • a provider application
    • a consumer application
    • the relations to those apps must be active (either active from / active to is not set, or it’s set so that the current day is in the active period).
    • the fact sheets themselves can have any lifecycle status whatsoever, I‘m just not sure if End Of Life interfaces are shown by default.

    Short answer: Don’t worry about the warning, and if it bothers you, make sure all interfaces have a provider and consumer.

    An easy way to find out:

    • go to the inventory
    • go to interfaces
    • switch to table mode
    • make the columns for provider and consumer app visible.

    This way, you see at the first glance where you have gaps, even without a fancy inventory filter.

    Good luck!

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    • ChrisW
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    • December 14, 2024

    Thomas already mentioned the basics - just one more point: check if you have the quality seal and “draft” mode activated for interfaces. The OOTB reportings do not include “Draft” states, which means they’re filtered out, even if they meet all the requirements Thomas mentioned.

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    • mvanrooijen
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    • December 16, 2024

    So that worked. Interesting that if interfaces are active, as well as applications you manually have to set the date active, but that is what it is.

    By the way, did you guys know that in table mode you cannot set both provider and consumer interface “data active” at the same time? 

    In addition:
    I still wish there was a more comprehensible error message and/or a better reporting interface, with a proper data Dictionary then is currently provided.

     


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