Creating and Publishing Architecture Elements

In Bpanda, you can create your own architecture elements and then publish them.

A new element is always created as a draft first and is only visible to everyone once it has been published. If you want to take over an existing inventory instead of creating element by element, use Importing Architecture Elements from ArchiMate® XML.

Prerequisites

You are a BPM Manager or Designer.

How to proceed

Select Architecture.
Select the Drafts tab.
Select + (Create New Architecture Element).

The Create New Architecture Element dialog opens.
Enter the name of the architecture element.
Select the type of the architecture element. The types available for selection are those that are enabled in your Process Space, grouped by ArchiMate layer. (For more on types, see: Defining Architecture Settings)
[Optional] Enter a description. The editor offers you bold, italic, underline, links, alignment and bullet lists.
Select Create or Create & New.

Create

If you select Create, a draft is created and the draft window opens. In the draft window, you can add further responsible persons, properties and linked architecture elements to the architecture element. You can then publish the architecture element. The architecture element is then displayed under Architecture on the Published tab. If you do not publish the architecture element, it is displayed under Architecture on the Drafts tab.

Note: No responsible person is set when the element is created. Add one in the draft — otherwise the element appears in the Architecture Elements Without Responsible Persons evaluation.

Result: Select Publish in the header of the draft. If a mandatory property is empty, Bpanda reports Required Property Values Missing and names them; add the values and publish again.

Create & New

If you select Create & New, the architecture element is created directly as a draft. The draft window does not open. The architecture element is then displayed directly under Architecture on the Drafts tab.

You can also create an architecture element outside the architecture area: via Create > Architecture in the sidebar. The dialog is the same and creates one element — just like the other entry points via Create.

Create & New is only available via + on the Drafts tab. Take this route if you want to create several elements one after another.

Publishing several drafts at once

On the Drafts tab, the ⋮ three-dot menu contains the Publish All Drafts entry. The drafts that remain after your current filter settings are published.

Business processes are excluded from this. They are published via the release process on the process page or via Manage Processes.

After the run, Publishing Completed shows you what was published and what was not.