Landscape Views are designed to visualize Objects in the global context of an enterprise and provide abilities to refine this context. Using the Landscape Views, business managers and architects can easily identify areas of interest or stakeholder’s concern.

By offering insight into cross-domain architecture relationships, the Landscape Views assist in decision-making when it comes to complex architectures.

Create a Landscape View

On the Public Views or My Views page, on the toolbar, select Create , and then select Landscape View.
You can also create a Landscape View from the Dashboard page by selecting Start New Landscape View in the Landscape View card.

Figure 29. Start New Landscape View.png — Figure 1. Create a New Landscape View

Depending on what data you want to set for a View, select the option that suits between create new and create from Template.

Create a new Landscape View

Use the Create option to set up a Landscape View by manual selection of its parameters. Group the Object Type of your choice by any of its Attributes or related Object Types. For example:

to understand the completeness of application ownership, you can select the item type Application and group items by Owner
to understand the use of applications across organization, you can select the item type Application and group items by Organization

Figure 30. Create Landscape View.png — Figure 2. Create Landscape View

If you group items by a related Object Type, you will be able to refine the Relationships used to structure them and display their hierarchical levels.

Relationship Types, available for selection in the panel, only have the hierarchical direction.

For example, the Object Type Organization can have multiple levels. In this case, the Select Relationship Type list allows you to select the Core EA: Organization contains Organization hierarchy and display its entire organization structure, not just the first level. This brings the enterprise dimension to life and gives you more capabilities through navigability and analysis.

Figure 31. Create New Landscape View.png — Figure 3. Create New Landscape View from scratch

Use Landscape View Template

Use a Landscape View Template to quickly create a View based on the predefined Core EA parameters. In the selected template below, you won’t have to select grouped items or those grouped by—this is already set in the predefined landscape.

Figure 32. Create Landscape View-2.png — Figure 4. Choose a predefined template

The below table provides the details on the predefined templates that are currently available.

Predefined landscape	Description	Selected item	Grouped by	Hierarchical Relationship between "grouped by" items
Applications to Business Capability	Visualize your application portfolio(s) in the context of what your enterprise is capable of doing to support the business	Application	Capability	Core EA: Capability contains Capability
Applications by Category	Visualize your application portfolio(s) in the context of their functional or technical classification	Application	Application Category	Core EA: Application Category constitutes Application Category
Business Capability map	Visualize and drill down into capabilities in the context of the enterprise capability structure	Capability	Capability	Core EA: Capability contains Capability
Process Hierarchy Decomposition	Visualize and drill down into processes in the context of the enterprise process structure	Business Process	Business Process	Core EA: Process contains Process
Technology by Category	Visualize your technology portfolio(s) in the context of their functional or technical classification	Technology	Technology Category	Core EA: Technology Category constitutes Technology Category

The list of predefined landscape templates is subject to change and, currently supports only Core EA.

Save and share a Landscape View

Save the View by specifying its name, description, assigning tags, and defining whether it's public or private.

Figure 33. Save New View.png — Figure 5. Save New View

If you want to change metadata of the existing View or make a duplicate based on it, in the upper-right corner, next to the Save View button select the drop down, and then select Save View as.

Figure 34. Save View As.png — Figure 6. Save View As

Using the control bar in the lower-right corner, you can to modify the appearance of the View.

You can also apply conditional formatting to conveniently detect areas of interest. For more information, see Configure Landscape Views.

Figure 35. Modify Appearance of the View.png — Figure 7. Modify Appearance of the View

Share the Landscape View

With the link: users your share this link with must be administrators.
Using Dashboard Landscape widgets and sharing the Dashboard to an individual or a user role.

Configure Landscape Views

You can alter data representation in the Landscape Views to narrow your focus on the areas of interest and be able to reuse applied formatting in the future.

Apply color formatting to Landscape Views

There are some limitations to applying color formatting:

A choice value cannot have sub choices.
Only custom choice Attributes with five or fewer values can be used as Conditional formatting selections.
Conditional formatting is not applied to hidden attributes. This prevents users without permissions from inferring an attribute value based on the conditional formatting values. For more information, see Manage content permissions.

You can assign colors to the cards in Landscape Views to more efficiently utilize and analyze data.

In the upper-left corner of Landscape View, select Conditional formatting.

Figure 36. Conditional Formatting.png — Figure 8. Conditional Formatting button

In the Conditional formatting panel, in the Format by list, select an Attribute to format the items in the View by.

Figure 37. Conditional Formatting-2.png — Figure 9. Conditional Formatting attribute selection

The list shows common Attributes for all Objects in a Landscape View. If there are no common Attributes, you won’t be able to apply formatting to the View.

Review auto-generated formatting rules for the selected Attribute and apply criteria.

Figure 38. Formatting Rules.png — Figure 10. Formatting Rules

Formatting rules are pre-defined, and are not available for Landscape Views with no default heatmapping schemes.

See the legend to review the color formatting rules applied to the Landscape View.

Figure 39. Legend.png — Figure 11. Automatic Legend based on conditional formatting selection

Save Landscape View with applied formatting

When you save a Landscape View, applied heatmapping scheme saves as well. This means that when you open the View later, the saved scheme will be applied right away.

Figure 40. Save Landscape View.png — Figure 12. Save Landscape View

The same way you can clear default formatting for a Landscape View. For this in the Conditional formatting panel, select Clear formatting > Apply and then save the View again.

Figure 41. Clear Formatting.png — Figure 13. Clear Formatting

Filter Landscape Views

To limit or extend the Landscape View results to the criteria you need, you can filter Objects in the Views by their Attribute values. This way you can focus on the data of your interest or concern and configure Landscape Views accordingly.

To filter Landscape Views:

In the upper-left corner of Landscape View, select Filter.

Figure 42. Filter Landscape Views.png — Figure 14. Filter Landscape Views

Define a filter condition by specifying the values in the respective filter boxes:

an Attribute to search for in the Model content.

The list of Attributes you can choose from is not limited to those assigned to the Objects that are displayed in the View. You can filter by all Attributes that are in the Models turned on in the MSC filter panel.

an operator that determines how to compare the values.
Operators change depending on the value you select.
a value you set for the selected Attribute.

Figure 43. Filter Boxes.png — Figure 15. Filter Boxes

Select Add to narrow down your search by adding more filter conditions.

Figure 44. Adding More Filter Conditions.png — Figure 16. Adding More Filter Conditions

To filter View content by specific related Objects, use Related to. Specify the needed Objects and once applied, only View items that are related to them will be displayed.

Figure 45.Adding More Filter Conditions2.png — Figure 17.Adding the Related to Filter

Select Apply to filter the Objects in the View according to the criteria you set.
For your convenience, can see the count of applied filter conditions in parentheses.

Figure 46. Count of Applied Filters.png — Figure 18. Count of Applied Filters

Save the View to keep filter configuration.

You can, of course, modify filter configuration by clearing values for a filter condition or removing one completely.

Select Remove to clear all filters and apply changes.

Figure 47. Remove Filters.png — Figure 19. Remove Filters

If you attempt to filter a Landscape View using an attribute that is hidden from your role, the message 'Filtered Attribute is restricted in one or more Models' is displayed. No values are shown, preventing inferred disclosure. For more information, see Manage content permissions.

Figure 20. Filtered attribute is restricted

Export Landscape Views

You can export any Landscape View to a PNG file that will be downloaded to your PC. The file name will be automatically pre-filled based on the view name, with any special characters removed to meet system requirements. The image will be generated at 100% Landscape View size.

To export a Landscape View, select the Export to PNG button.

Figure 48. Export to PNG.png — Figure 21. Export to PNG

The export functionality has some known limitations related to maximum canvas size (browsers' limitation). To ensure the appropriate quality of the exported image, remember that:
- The maximum width/height of the canvas is ~32,767 pixels.
- The total pixel area limit is 268 million pixels.
- Some browsers (e.g., Chrome) might allocate additional memory dynamically if your system has enough available RAM/GPU resources.
Attempting to export a View that is too large may result in the operation failing.

Orbus Academy Learning

If you would like a walkthrough, we recommend the following Orbus Academy video lessons: Landscape View.