Understanding how objects are connected—and how changes ripple across your organization—is critical for effective decision-making. The Impact Explorer in OrbusInfinity offers a structured, interactive way to visualize and navigate relationships between objects, designed for architects, business users, object owners, and portfolio managers.

Key benefits of Impact Explorer:

• Explore relationship paths: start from any primary object to analyse connections and tell clear stories for stakeholders.
• Gain organizational insights: visualize connections at a high-level across your organization, and how different objects and business areas are interrelated.
• Assess impact of changes: evaluate how changes affect your area and anticipate downstream effects for informed decisions.

This article explains how to use Impact Explorer to efficiently map out relationships, trace impacts, and support both strategic and operational needs within your organization.

Open Impact Explorer

The Impact Explorer is always available in the Object Details flyout, describing the root Model Item in more detail. It is designed to explore the Objects directly related from that root Model Item, and those further related.

You can access Impact Explorer in two ways:

1. From List View:
   • Open a List View from the Home Page: Model Content, In the Public Views or My Views menus, from Search Results.

     • Select the icon next to an Object name.

       

     • For New List View, select the Show in Impact Explorer icon in the Actions column.

       

• It opens the Object Details Flyout directly on the Impact Explorer tab.

2. From Object Details Flyout:
   • Open the Object Details Flyout by clicking on the name of Object.

   • Within the flyout, go to the Impact Explorer tab.
      

     

The Impact Explorer initially shows the Objects directly related to the root Model Item described in the Object Details Flyout. 

Expand Your Exploration

The Impact Explorer can be used to automatically visualize complex models, surfacing dependencies and relationships on different levels from a root object. To expand your visualization with more data, choose the Object to expand from and select the arrow button.

This navigation menu provides options to expand or filter data from the selected Object, adjusting displayed scope by Object Types or by individual Objects.

Using the menu you can do the following:

1. Select All: select and display all unselected related objects.

The root Object is collapsed when entering the Impact Explorer tab for Objects having at least 50 related items. For those Objects, the Select All option in the context menu has an additional warning icon with a tooltip informing that loading all of them at once may negatively impact performance.

2. Unselect All: unselect and hide all objects from the current object, except those that are connected to the root object.
3. Expand by Object Type: expand all objects of the selected object type linked to the current object.
4. Expand by Object: expand the visualization with individually selected object.

Interact with Impact Explorer

To facilitate data exploration, the Impact Explorer provides specific features to interact, export, and display content.

1. Group visualization content: group the Model Items to have a clearer picture of the Impact Explorer content.

   Currently, only grouping by Object Type is available in Impact Explorer.

2. Choose the way the Impact Explorer is displayed. You can select from:
   • Organic
   • Radial
   • Hierarchical
   • Orthogonal
3. Export to PNG: download the current view as PNG.
4. Create a List View from Impact Explorer: specify the name, description, tags, and access level (private vs public), and create a List View that will contain Objects and Relationships presented in the visualization.
5. Center on the root object: go back to the default, centered view.
6. Save the state of your explored Object: expanding or collapsing any nodes will enable the Save visualization button. Use it to save your current state, so you can easily come back and continue where you left off. You can still return to the default view by selecting Reset visualization.​​​

Saving visualization works only on the user level.

Navigate to the Object Details of any displayed model items. 

• Click on an Object or Relationship to open its Object Details Flyout.
• Select the icon to go back to the previous model item.