I want to create a new relation between applications to show the connected application via interfaces.
Meaning, if an application A is a provider for interface Y and application B is a consumer, A is connected to B and this should be visible in both A and B factsheets.
The problem is: when I add B to the relation with A and then go to B to add A, it creates a cycle and LeanIX return an error.
Is there a way to solve this? I just whant to have a way to show all the applications that are connected to A.
Thanks
Best answer by Thomas Schreiner
Hi @Paulo Vilar,
I don’t think the error is because of a cycle, but because this relation already exists. If you add a relation from A to B, LeanIX will also consider this as a relation from B to A, because relations are not directed in LeanIX, so you are trying to create a duplicate relation.
That aside, I would *highly* recommend to not manually maintain those A->B relations, but let them be maintained and updated automatically based on your Interface data. Our Aronis Automation Platform has a standard automation for exactly this use case. Are you attending the Den Haag summit next week? Then I’ll be happy to show you how it works.
I don’t think the error is because of a cycle, but because this relation already exists. If you add a relation from A to B, LeanIX will also consider this as a relation from B to A, because relations are not directed in LeanIX, so you are trying to create a duplicate relation.
That aside, I would *highly* recommend to not manually maintain those A->B relations, but let them be maintained and updated automatically based on your Interface data. Our Aronis Automation Platform has a standard automation for exactly this use case. Are you attending the Den Haag summit next week? Then I’ll be happy to show you how it works.
I understand why it’s creating a cycle but I don’t see another way to create the list.
I want to show all the applications connected to “my” application. The only way I see it it’s with a relation.
When my application is added to an interface I have this Azure logic app that adds other applications to the list but because I need to add to the other application as well, the cycle is createad. Unfortunately I don’t see another way to do it.
Unfortunately I will not be at the summit. Maybe next time.
