1.65

What's Changed

Admin Features

Navigation aid builder create a simple level 1/ level 2 diagram (using flexbox layout) for any taxonomy or the data type tree. The htm can then be extracted and pasted into the diagrams table (which supports SVG and plain HTML)

Bulk loaders, Waltz now has bulk upload support for taxonomy mappings, involvements (people to entity links) and assessements. The assessment support was expanded to cover entities other than applications.

Assessment Rippler, administrators can now use settings to configure how asssessment ratings can be rippled between entities. The Waltz job will handle then mapping between differing entity types. For example a ripple may be defined which ripples a physical flow assessment to it's associated logical flow and then upwards to the source and target nodes.

Full Changelog: 1.64...1.65

1.64

Noteworthy

Merge Data types

Admin support for merging two datatypes, automigrates data as needed (e.g. flows, rules)

Bulk Measurable Ratings

Added a simple UI for bulk registration of measurable ratings (taxonomy alignments)

Bulk Measurable Taxonomy Updates

Added a simple UI for bulk taxonomy changes (adding nodes, removing nodes etc.)

All Changes

All changes

1.62

Noteworthy

People pages

When aggregating apps to a person we have restricted which roles are considered (e.g ITAO is included, Artifactory User is excluded)
This should reduce the 'overstatement' of a persons application footprint

Admin / Housekeeping

• Visualise fine grained permission groups
• Admin Settings screen now allows comments
• User roles admin view improvements, allows linking to role owners etc,

Flows

Removed directional filter on aggregate flow details view

1.61.1

Noteworthy

Aliases

Aliases allow users to register alternative names for Applications, making them easier to search.
In 1.61.1 we've extended support for registering and searching for aliases to:

• End User Applications (EUDAs)
• Actors

Data flows

The new and improved Flow Details section, which had only been available for Applications, is now available on all aggregate pages.

1.61

Noteworthy

EUDA Taxonomy Mappings

In 1.60 we added support for linking EUDAs to flows and assessments. In 1.61 EUDAs can now be also be linked against taxonomies (e.g. Capability), providing a way for us to more accurately document our IT landscape. Aggregate views will correctly show the mix of Applications and EUDAs.

Note: We shall be looking (in a future release) to remove the ability to 'promote' apps to EUDAs now that they have feature parity with applications.

Physical Flows

Waltz has often aggregated flow information from various sources. However it can be difficult to refer to flows outside of using their Waltz database id's. This release ensures each physical flow has a simplified external identifier (we won't overwrite any provided id's).

As part of the change external identifiers can be used in URLs which will simplify deep-linking into Waltz.

The new Ids take the form:

ext id example	desc
PF_000001	Physical flow identifier
PS_000001	Physical spec identifier
LF_000001	Logical flow identifier

Search

Data types can now be searched for by their external ids (stored as code in the database)

1.60.2

A minor release addressing bugs.

Changes

• FIX: Flow Data Type editor not showing read-only entries correctly
• FIX: Taxonomy Management - 'merge node' feature fixed
• FIX: Capability Attestation - minor presentation fixes
• All Issues

1.60.1

Noteworthy

Flow Classifications

#7036 #7032 #7031

Consumer classifications

We have extended the flow classification rules in Waltz to allow for a consumer view of data types. This allows for rules to be registered that will discourage direct flows to and from a given system (e.g. a rule could be System A discourages all Book Data flows from all suppliers).

The changes made to Waltz include:

• Updating the views to show both producer (i.e. Auth Source) and consumer ratings
• Reworking the flow rule calculation engine to incorporate consumer ratings
• Previewing the producer and consumer ratings when updating data types to logical flow
• Allowing custom messages for flow classification rules which display when modifying data types e.g. "Users should no longer send book data to System X, register the flow against the consumer instead"

Flow classification UI

• Simplifying the registration of Flow Classification rules
  
• Consumer classifications shown on source/target graph popup
  
• Producer/Consumer classifications shown in flow datatype editor
  

End User Applications

#7044 #7046

It is increasingly important that the usage of End User Applications are captured in data flows. Previously this required us to 'uplift' end user applications into full application records in Waltz via a promotion process. With Waltz 1.60 end user applications are now first-class entity type in Waltz and can be direct participants in flows (along with the existing Actors and Applications). To support this change we have added

• A new End User Application page (incl. assessments, bookmarks, notes, people)
• Integration of End User Apps to flows
• End User app flows supported in Flow diagrams and filterable in the details
• Site search has been extended to include End User Apps
• Flow related API's have been updated to include End User App information
• End User Applications can be rated against Flow classification rules
  

Other

Applications

App export

The bulk application UI view (e.g. from Org Units) was including columns which were not included when exporting from the UI. This has now been fixed and the export matches the UI.

All

All closed issues: https://github.com/finos/waltz/milestone/181?closed=1

Full Changelog: 1.59.1...1.60.1
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1.59

Merge pull request #7042 from deutschebank/db-contrib/waltz-7032-flow…

1.58.2

Noteworthy

• Physical flow registration name error by @davidwatkins73 in #7026

Full Changelog: 1.58.1...1.58.2
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1.58.1

Noteworthy

• Data Type Decorator section has been updated to show more information on logical flow view #6986
• Assessments can be added to involvement kinds #6908
• Waltz Svelte Component now cascades destroy events from ng to svelte #7000
• Physical flow name has been made visible #6159

Full Changelog: 1.58...1.58.1
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