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Project Status

  • May 18, 2026
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nataliebird

We are working with our business partners to focus on business capability maturity.  As part of this, they would like to capture high level status for their efforts to achieve capability uplift.  This is based upon a small number of initiatives, under which the business capabilities are grouped together with their related processes.  In the Initiative factsheet, we have the possibility to capture project status (Red/Yellow/Green), % completion and a description.  However, I have encountered a couple of problems:-

  1. There seems to be no way in LeanIX reporting to present the descriptive text that accompanies the RYG status
  2. Using export/import from inventory view, while exporting the RYG is possible, you cannot export/import % completion or description and you also cannot import RYG status. LeanIX displays ‘exporting expanded project status fields is not supported yet’ if you attempt to export, and if you try to import RYG, it says 0 updates were made

Is there any way to extract/visualise the descriptive text that accompanies the RYG status?  Or any plan to enable this?  While it’s something we can manage somewhat manually at present, as we expand this service, it would be useful to be able to demonstrate how we can collaboratively report our progress.

Natalie

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    GiannisAnt
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    • GiannisAnt
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    • May 18, 2026

    Hello Natalie,

    Yes, indeed, project status seems to be a special case.
    It makes sense, since it’s supposed to be constantly updated and to retain historical values as a functionality

     

     

    If you look at the Meta Model there isn’t event a field for the description probably it’s included in PROJECT_STATUS template.

    Maybe you should create a new field for this?

    Because I can’t seem to find a way to use it in a report also.

     

     

    Thomas Schreiner
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    Hi ​@nataliebird,

    There are several ways how to extract project status information from LeanIX for further processing.

    1.) The most obvious one - inventory tables and full snapshot exports - are not possible, since they don’t contain the project status and project milestone data structures.

    2.) The next possibility is GraphQL: https://help.sap.com/docs/leanix/ea/retrieving-fact-sheets?locale=en-US

    In your GraphQL query, you can add the following part to extract the project status values:

    projectStatus { asString edges { node { id date status progress description asString } } }

    3.) The (for me) easiest way: Running an ad-hoc export using our LeanIX Console.

    The script looks like this:

    projects = Project.all()

    # Or:
    # projects = Initiative.all()
    # depending on whether your workspace was already created using Meta Model v4.

    for project in projects:
        print(project["id"], project["displayName"], project["project_status"])

    And you can use it to build results exactly the way you want them, for example like this:

    My Transformation Project;[{'id': '12060813438', 'date': '2023-04-06', 'status': 'green', 'progress': 100, 'description': 'My RYG description', 'asString': '2023-04-06, green, 100%'}]

    My Other Project;[{'id': '12060813439', 'date': '2023-04-08', 'status': 'yellow', 'progress': 80, 'description': 'My other RYG description', 'asString': '2023-04-08, yellow, 80%'}]
     

    If you have any questions, feel free to get in touch. Good luck!

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