TP-12845, TP-13063

Lead Designer users can now view the models of a model package in Horizzon. Enterprise Studio models and any models created via the Bizzdesign Open API ("Collections") are displayed. In addition, Lead Designer users can now also manually create and manage models in Horizzon. These Horizzon models can be used for the new data contribution features.

The Horizzon models can be accessed via the Models entry in the sidebar menu of the model package page. Like any other list page in Horizzon, the page has a search function, and the models can be sorted.

For more information, please refer to Managing models in Horizzon.

TP-13023, TP-13024, TP-13113, TP-13384

The new addition to the data contribution features is creating objects in Horizzon. Contributor users can now create objects in Horizzon. Contributors with little modeling knowledge can easily contribute to ArchiMate^® model content by creating objects of specific types that Lead Designers predefine via conventions. Conventions determine the types of objects that the Contributors can create and whether they can relate them to other objects. Object policies set up by the Lead Designer specify which Contributors will be the allowed editors for these objects, just like data policies do for editing data blocks.

Once conventions and object policies have been set, Contributors can start creating objects. These objects will be created in models managed in Horizzon (see item "Horizzon model management" in these release notes). The Horizzon models will be available to the user in the Models overview on their homepage.

The Objects overview on the homepage is now the main entry for editing data blocks on objects.

For more information, please refer to Data contribution in Horizzon.

TP-13067

Because of the new data contribution features, the editing of data blocks with policies by Contributor users has moved to another location in Horizzon. Before, a dedicated data entry page showed all data blocks, located on the model package level. Now editing data blocks is located on the Data tab of the Contribute page of a model within a model package. Contributor users can access the objects via the Objects overview on their homepage.

Old situation:

New situation:

Accessing data blocks from the homepage:

The models in which the data blocks are can also be viewed in the Models overview on the homepage. Opening a model will also lead the user to the objects with the data blocks.

TP-13313

Following the new data contribution features, the Horizzon audit log has been extended with data related to these features. The audit log now registers the following actions performed by Contributor and Lead Designer users:

Contributors:

• Creating an object
• Updating the relations for an object
• Updating the name of an object
• Deleting an object

Lead Designers:

• Activating a convention (Convention Created)
• Deactivating a convention (Convention Deleted)
• Creating a convention rule
• Updating a convention rule
• Removing a convention rule
• Creating an object policy
• Updating an object policy
• Deleting an object policy

TP-13698

To improve performance, changes have been made to the synchronization activities of the Activity Console. Because of this, few changes have been made to the Backstage view of Enterprise Studio for managing model packages and projects.

On the Manage Package tab and the Manage Project tab, the Share entry for inviting users is no longer in the first position in the menu. These changes do not affect the way the features work.

TP-13649

Only applicable to the on-premise solution.

In software versions before the 26 May 2022 release, it was possible to use the tool configuration in an older version of Enterprise Studio, downgrading the configuration. This would sometimes flag recently added standard configuration items as "custom", making it impossible to upgrade any further. Since the 26 May release, downgrading is no longer possible.

When downgraded tool configurations from versions before the 26 May 2022 release are upgraded, Enterprise Studio will now detect a downgrade has taken place, and correct the situation before continuing with the upgrade. Please note that if your downgraded configuration also contains a custom menu definition, you must recreate it in the Metamodeler after the upgrade to ensure your custom viewpoints are available again to users. If a custom menu is present, a message will appear during the upgrade saying that the custom menu has been discarded.

TP-13062

In addition to sharing Horizzon views with an active viewpoint like the color or table view, it is now also possible to share highlight views. Please note that highlight views can only be activated in a color view based on an element property or metric, not based on the endpoint of a path in the object relations explorer.

TP-13140

Horizzon now automatically sends out a weekly task summary e-mail to users that have open data tasks awaiting. The e-mail is sent every Monday. Clicking the "My tasks" link directs the user to their My tasks page in Horizzon.

The user can unsubscribe from this weekly summary via the link in the e-mail. It will send the user to their manage profile page, where they can clear the check box for receiving the weekly task summary. The option can be enabled anytime.

For more information, please refer to Working on data tasks for updating data block values.

TP-10469

When using a SAML 2.0 identity provider for user authentication and provisioning in Horizzon, the user's e-mail address is now shown in the Modified by information on a Horizzon view instead of the username to provide a unique user identification (as usernames do not always do this).

TP-13622

Several improvements have been made to the performance of the Navigator, which is particularly effective on model packages with many views. One visible improvement includes adding the option Show containing views to the Navigator in Enterprise Studio. Before, when using the Navigator the containing views of the objects and relations were automatically included. It can be switched off using the new option. Not showing the containing views in the Navigator benefits the performance, particularly if the model contains many views.

For more information, please refer to The Navigator.

TP-13579

It is now possible to draw serving relations on the Capability map view, which is now in accordance with the ArchiMate ^® specification, which allows serving relations between strategy elements.

TP-13383

To align the terminology used in Horizzon, a few name changes have been made on the data task overview page, and on the Horizzon homepage. The data tasks page and the sections on the homepage are only available for Contributor users.

The former Data tasks page is now called My tasks. On the homepage, the former Objects and Views sections are now called Contribute and Browse. In addition, the Browse section is now the default section to be shown after signing in to Horizzon. Previously it was the Objects section.

TP-13461

The Check and Repair function now also detects and deletes corrupted relation references.

TP-12971

Previously, after starting Enterprise Studio, the Activity Console might only start responding after minutes, because of synchronization operations. This would cause Enterprise Studio to generate error messages. From now on at startup, Enterprise Studio will wait for the Activity Console to become available (after synchronizing), preventing a range of (error) messages resulting from this unavailability.

TP-13240, TP-13328

The Bizzdesign Open API is out of beta. Version 1.0.0 is now released. In the new version, the operations in the specification include examples. Because of these additions, the Open API specification has moved from Swagger version 2 (JSON file) to version3 (YAML file).

For more information, please refer to Bizzdesign Open API.

TP-13238

In order to avoid accidental downgrades of the configuration, future configuration upgrades will be refused if the configuration contains unknown profiles that are not marked as custom. If that happens, please refer to Model package migration troubleshooting for instructions on how to proceed.

TP-13282

When adding external data via the Bizzdesign Open API when the target model package was not yet fully synchronized, a generic internal server error would occur. This has been changed into an Open API error that correctly describes the situation.

TP-13201

On the Sites page, it is now possible to directly navigate from a site to the model package it is created for. It is available for users who have access to model packages in Horizzon. For (Lead) Designer users it means they need to be invited to the package, for Contributor users it means that they are editor for data blocks in the package. Administrator users always have access to the model packages.

Depending on whether the user has permissions to manage a site, navigation is done via the actions control , or the Open package control if the user has no manage permissions.

TP-11155

The Query Tool now displays line numbers in its script windows. In addition, a "go to line" command is available via Ctrl+G.

TP-12966

The placeholder page for adding group members, which has been in Horizzon since adding members has moved to a dedicated group members page (release 18 May 2020) tab has been removed. When creating a group, the user will be taken directly to the page for adding group members.

Old placeholder page:

Current add member page:

TP-12988, TP-12990, TP-13028, TP-13029, TP-13153, TP-13154, TP-13179

The Bizzdesign Horizzon software has a new corporate style including updated names, company logo, icons, colors, and Horizzon e-mail messages. The new style is visible in the Horizzon portal as well as Enterprise Studio.

TP-13015

Data block information that should only be shared with a selection of users can now be hidden from users who should not be able to access the information by assigning readers to data blocks. In addition to the Editor role, there is now the Reader role. The Reader role allows Lead Designers to determine which users are allowed to view data blocks.

If a data block has no reader assigned, any Consumer user will be able to view the data block and its contents. Once assigned a reader, the data block will only be visible via sites to users and groups that have been selected as readers, or to users and groups that have editor access to the data block. In Enterprise Studio, only data blocks that the user can read will have their content viewable.

The Reader role can be set to the data policy of a data block, next to the Editor role. Just like the Editor role, the Reader role can be set at the object level (default policy) as well as per data block. When set at the object level, reader rights for each data block will be inherited from the object unless explicitly overridden.

For more information, please refer to Hiding data block information from users.

With the new Reader role comes a new version of the Bizzdesign Open API specification, in which new endpoints have been included to support the new Reader role. For the updated Open API specification (v 0.3.2), please refer to Bizzdesign Open API.

TP-13108

Following the introduction of the Reader role, the wording of the Data block write access options has been updated to include the Reader role. and the options have been repositioned; the strict mode is now mentioned first. The options are now as follows:

TP-12358

The Horizzon audit log now also includes information about changes to data blocks (field values), data block definitions, data policies, and data update schedules. These include:

• Data block definition creation, including who created it, when (date, time), associated elements, and fields.
• Data block definition update, including who updated it, when, and the latest configuration of the definition (associated elements, fields).
• Data block definition deletion, including who deleted it and when.
• Data policy creation, including who created it, when, and its configuration.
• Data policy update, including who updated it, when, and its latest configuration.
• Data policy deletion, including who deleted it and when.
• Data update schedule modification, including who created it, and its latest configuration.
• Data update schedule deletion, including who deleted it and when.
• Data block field updates, including the new value, who changed the value, and when.

This new data can also be accessed via the Bizzdesign Open API when requesting audit event log information.

For more information, please refer to Horizzon audit log.

TP-12855

In addition to the existing complexity check on Horizzon user passwords, the passwords are now also checked on whether they are breached. When (re)setting a new password, it is now also checked against a list of known breached passwords for additional security.

If you are working with the on-premise solution of Bizzdesign Horizzon, it is possible to disable this check if needed. It can be done in the application.conf file in the Horizzon Server installation directory. The setting can be disabled during a new Bizzdesign Horizzon installation or when updating to a new release, but can also be done in between. In that case, make sure to stop and restart the HoriZZon Server and HoriZZon Worker services after making the changes to the file, for the new setting to take effect.

For more information, please refer to Bizzdesign Horizzon installation.

TP-12394

The Horizzon System Administrator role on any hosted Bizzdesign Horizzon environment, which had been only available to Bizzdesign personnel, is now also available for Horizzon Administrator users. The System Administrator role enables users to access various Horizzon configuration options. Options that can be configured include invitation limitations, password and lockout policy, session settings, and user synchronization and authentication.

As an existing customer using a hosted solution you will not immediately be able to use the System Administrator role. Bizzdesign Support has sent out an e-mail to all your Horizzon Administrator users to inform them about the System Administrator role and how it will be made available to them. If you have received this e-mail, please read it and contact Bizzdesign Support, if needed.

For more information, please refer to System Administrator role available for the Bizzdesign hosted solutions.

TP-12394

The Horizzon e-mail configuration that was previously located at the Horizzon settings, has relocated to the application.conf file of the Horizzon Server installation. If you are using the Bizzdesign on-premise solution and need to change the e-mail configuration settings at some point, you can access them in the configuration file.

For more information, please refer to Changing the Horizzon e-mail configuration.

TP-12011

The Sunray view is a new view type for ArchiMate modeling. It is a special kind of roadmap view and can be used to visualize gradual change or transformation in processes or events. The changes mapped in the view can help share the transformation in different areas of business and processes. The Sunray view can be added via  New > Planning > Sunray view  in the ArchiMate model context menu in the model browser.

A Sunray view can be generated based on existing objects and relations, but also supports creating new objects and relations. The Sunray view has a canvas menu that includes various settings and options for laying out and generating the view.

TP-12553

As of this release, when an object type in Enterprise Studio has a data block definition assigned, but the object's data block in Horizzon does not have values, both the object's Properties pane and properties form in Enterprise Studio will no longer show the (read-only) data block with its fields (with their default values). In the example figure below, the "Application quality" data block, which has no values, is not shown at the object properties in Enterprise Studio.

TP-13088

From now on, external data (collections) are no longer included in the context of a project in Horizzon. For the visibility of external data in Horizzon project sites it means the following:

• The external data will no longer be shown in the model tree of the site browser.
• External elements included in the views of a project site will stay visible, but when they are clicked on, an out-of-scope message will be shown instead of the element's Properties panel.
• The same applies to external elements included in charts in project site views. They remain visible but are considered out of scope when they are clicked on.

Sites of the master model package the project is based on, will of course still include the external data and show their properties.

TP-12807

It is now possible to generate label views from the relations explorer section in the Properties panel of a selected element in a view. They can be generated on the endpoint of a path, up to a depth of three relations. The option is only available on ArchiMate views.

For more information, please refer to Generating a color, label, or tooltip view.

TP-13065

Horizzon items displayed in tiles or lists (like sites, packages, users, groups, and objects) that have a long title or name, will now show their full name when hovered. In tiles, the name is expanded in the tile when moving the mouse pointer over it. In list view, a tooltip with the full name is shown when moving the mouse pointer over it.

As of this release, built-in user support is available in Horizzon, in the cloud and hybrid solution. It will include interactive product tours, onboarding guides, release highlights, and a Resource Center with access to various support resources. The first release of the build-in support includes a few basic tours and the Resource Center, accessible via in the lower right corner of the Horizzon window. The support will be extended over time. Example:

TP-11553

Until now, the behavior of navigating objects in a table chart was not the same as in the other types of charts available in Enterprise Studio. This has been aligned and the behavior is now identical; when clicking an object in a table chart, the respective object is highlighted in the model browser.

TP-9803

It is now possible to customize the colors used in a generated color view. After generating a view, click a color in the legend to change it. When the color view is saved (by pinning it), the custom colors will also be saved. Also, when the color view is shared, the customized colors are preserved.

Because of this addition, the control to revert the legend colors has been removed (it was located to the left of the control to save/pin the generated view). Also, a highlight view can now be generated by clicking a legend value instead of the color.

For more information, please refer to Customizing the colors of a color view.

TP-13034

The Enterprise Studio option Support for ArchiMate derived relation types (General tab of the Options) has been renamed to Visual distinction between direct and derived relation types to better reflect its function. The option can be activated to visually distinguish between direct and derived ArchiMate relation types when modeling.

TP-13042

The Bizzdesign scripting language has been extended with the languages method. It can be used, for example, to set the active language for a model package. The method can be called on a model package object and returns the set of all languages registered with the package. The languages will also show up in the Translation table.

For more information, please refer to languages method.

TP-12957, TP-12958

Collections in Horizzon and Enterprise Studio now show their metamodel in the upper right corner of its icon. Before, a badge with an abbreviation of the collection's name would be shown on the icon.

Horizzon:

Enterprise Studio:

TP-12887

The Check and Repair function no longer rolls back all repairs when a minority of objects cannot be repaired due to claiming conflicts. This will make the function much more effective in a model package with many users (having uncommitted changes), and in model packages where projects are used (keeping objects in the master package locked).

TP-12918

Following the recently introduced features for generating color views from the relations explorer on ArchiMate views, and sharing Horizzon views with activated viewpoints (both in Release 14 February 2022), it is now also possible to share the ArchiMate views with color views generated from the relations explorer. Before, this was only possible for generated viewpoints based on an element attribute or metric.

For more information, please refer to Sharing Horizzon views with other users.

TP-12854

It is now possible to directly switch between Azure AD and SAML without first having to switch to no identity provider as an intermediate step before switching to the new identity provider. When keeping the users from the previous identity provider during the process of switching providers, those users will not receive an e-mail to set their password. The users will be converted to native users temporarily until they are recognized based on the information provided by the new identity provider.

For more information, please refer to Switching identity providers.

TP-4131

It is now possible to generate color views from the relations explorer section in the Properties panel of a selected element in the view. They can be generated on the endpoint of a path, up to a depth of three relations. The option is only available on ArchiMate views.

For more information, please refer to Generating a color, label, or tooltip view.

TP-12793

It is now possible to share views in Horizzon that have an active viewpoint based on an element attribute or metric (color, label, tooltip, chart, or table view). The users visiting the shared view will see the view with the activate viewpoint. The views can be shared with anyone who has access to Horizzon and with whom the site where the shared view is located is shared.

For more information, please refer to Sharing Horizzon views with other users.

TP-12194

The following content checks for ArchiMate models have been renamed to better reflect their functionality:

Derived Relation Types (generate a workset) -> Derived Relations

Derived Relation Types (generate a color view) -> Color Derived Relations

For more information, please refer to Model content checks for ArchiMate models.

TP-12194

The Metamodeler has been extended with the possibility to define custom ribbon tabs with your own viewpoints and scripts. Viewpoints and scripts saved in models can now be included in custom ribbon tabs that are saved in the tool configuration, that way making them available to all models in the model packages using that configuration.  Per metamodel two ribbon tabs with up to six groups can be defined, each group can contain up to six commands. Example:

Each custom ribbon tab has one fixed Support group, which you can use for adding your own information and support about the ribbon tab.

After defining the ribbon tabs in the Metamodeler, they can be validated and previewed before being applied to a model package.

TP-12721

The  Show Relations  window of the  Show Relations  function ( View ribbon tab) dialog now presents the relations in the same sorting order as the model browser (alphabetically by name).

TP-12758

The number of visible contributions on the model package Update page in Enterprise Studio is now limited to a maximum of 25 contributions. The same applies to the project Update page. This has been done to avoid performance issues with very long lists of contributions.

TP-12773

The model package data entry page in Horizzon has improved. The former model tree that was used to navigate the elements in the model package for which data blocks could be edited by Contributors with edit access, has been replaced with a list view, directly showing all elements for which the user has editing access. It now looks similar to the Objects section on the Horizzon homepage. The element list can be sorted and filtered to quickly find the elements. Select an element in the list and then enter the associated data block values.

Fore more information, please refer to Editing data blocks in Horizzon.

TP-12336

The Horizzon audit log now also includes the collaboration ID and repository ID. Repository ID has been added to the "Commit Created" event, collaboration ID has been added to the "Commit Created" and "Branch Updated" event. Please take note that this new data cannot yet be accessed via the Bizzdesign Open API when requesting audit event log information.

TP-10678

The text color for generated color views in Horizzon has improved. When generating a color view on a view or diagram, the text color is now automatically adjusted to create a good contrast with its background color to keep the text readable at all times.

TP-12568

Improvements have been made in the performance of generated viewpoints in Horizzon, for example, color views. The improvements are particularly noticeable for views with many objects.