HTML report: how to create drill-down / link from one view to another view

[Robakershoek]

I have question related to the possibility to create a kind of drill-down from a one view to another more detailed view.

For example:

Start with one view providing an overall overview of all business capabilities. When selecting a specific business capability (e.g. double click) then we zoom into this capability showing another view which covers that specific component in more detail.

Thus clicking on a object (e.g. business capability or application component) which then shows the detailed view / diagram (similar as URL link to another view).

Thank you for your help.

[Phil Beauvoir]

Hi, I'm not sure what you're asking here. Are you proposing this as feature request, or are you asking how this might be done because you want to implement this?

[Robakershoek]

Phil,

Thank you for your reply. I hope this is an existing feature of Archi HTML publishing. So indeed I hope someone can tell me how this could this be done.

To improve the navigation it is essential to have the ability to drill down to another diagram.

For example : one view / diagram with a business capability model. Then if you click on a capability you drill down to another diagram showing the sub capabilities as well as other objects.

Or having a process diagram on level 1 with a high level process flow. When you click on a process object open another diagram with a level 2 detailed process flow.

I would assume this is a key feature a EA tool should have.

Thanks

[Phil Beauvoir]

That's not implemented in HTML reports. But if it's a feature that you'd like to see implemented then please add it a request here - https://github.com/archimatetool/archi/issues - maybe someone from the open source community might take a look at it.

[MarcF88]

I have question related to the possibility to create a kind of drill-down from a one view to another more detailed view.

Hi Rob,
Maybe this suggestion is too simple, but you can drag a view on to another view / element. So if you have a master view, drag the detail view on to it and it will provide a drill-down. I don't know how this works in html reports (may depend on the renderer), but I can say from experience that this does survive in the Exchange format exports (that is how we publish our models).

Regards,
Marc

[Robakershoek]

Thank you Marc for your idea! I tried that and indeed that works. But I rather also have the ability to drill-down from for example a business process or application component to a detailed diagram

But thank you for your advice.