That would make a very detailed and cluttered diagram if you include descriptions for all of your business capabilities.  If people want to see a description, they can click on the the business capability or any other element to see it and other attributes in the righthand panel.   

Obviously, this is not much use if you want to share a diagram as a printout, PDF or image.  Therefore, I would like to however see the ability to link a description and attributes note for business capabilities and other elements in free draw diagrams in LeanIX; very much as can be done in Sparx EA.

whitecaps - We had a similar request, not a description, but the Capability owner.  We wanted to have the L1 capability name, capability owner, and count of L2 capabilities on a single diagram.  The motivation for this request was to provide an “at a glance” view of the entire capability estate + our team had created a powerBI report with the same view, and Liked the “at a glance” view, but didn’t like powerBI.  Right now, we’re doing things like showing powerBI in a data frame within LeanIX - not ideal, and its just ugly.  not sure if there is a solution for this.

I am going to export a list of names and descriptions from the inventory. I am using the Business Capabilities as a base layer over which I can add stuff in different diagrams like apps, data, integrations etc. I just wanted to introduce the base layer diagram to the reader so I could expand on it in later diagrams which won’t contain the descriptions.

We also have this need - this seems like it should be a basic feature to have, because during Business Capability development stakeholders in a room want a printout of the capabilities with description to understand definitions and mitigate overlaps.

@shane I think it is a feature of current diagramming tool design that linked factsheets only pull through a limited number of name type attributes. You could always raise adding other attributes as an idea in the product roadmap, I’d vote for it. If there are not too many capabilities and assuming it is fairly static you can create a diagram inserting from inventory the BC and adding a text box for the description manually.

This keeps the link to the Factsheet on the diagram but adds additional information directly in the diagram. Not ideal but a way to create the base diagram within LeanIX and not in another tool.

​@Justin Swift Good solution and I had the exact same thought. It should suffice for now.

Follow-up: this has worked well, and business stakeholders are happy with it. Thanks for the solution ​@Justin Swift