Open and view information flow diagrams in our new frontend

July 2024

The information flow diagram visualizes data flows between applications, showing information systems as nodes and information flows as connecting edges. You can display various business objects exchanged and include relevant annotations.
For our new frontend we’ve added some improvements like the ability to also use dark mode to view diagrams.

A full description of this diagram type can be found here: Information flow diagram.

For this version, the information flow diagram is in read only mode. You are able to open and view reports but can’t edit them yet.

Open diagram

Information flow diagram reports can be opened either via the open diagram overlay or the reports page.

Open diagram overlay

The overlay shows a table of all information flow diagram reports available to you. These are either your own reports or reports which have been shared with you by other users.

In the dialogue you can see additional information like the author of the report as well as the last modified timestamp for each report.

If there is a long list of reports, use the filter option to search for specific reports by name.

There are two ways to open this overlay list:

1. Click on the information flow diagram tile in diagrams.

2. When an information flow report is already open, by clicking on the information flow text in the breadcrumb

All reports page

It is also possible to open an information flow diagram report via the reports page: Just click on the name of the report to open it.

Tip: The reports page allows you to filter not only by name but also by all other attributes of a report. E.g., it is possible to show IFL-reports by filtering for “information flow” or only show reports with certain tags by filtering for the tag name.

Navigate diagram

By clicking and holding your left mouse button you can move the diagram content.

Clicking CTRL while scrolling will zoom in and zoom out.

Limitations

Be aware that for this first iteration our new frontend does not yet support every feature known to you in our previous LUY solution. These features will follow shortly.

• It’s not possible to edit an information flow diagram.

• High contrast mode isn’t supported completely.

• Some filters configurations aren’t yet support (e.g., filters for the version attribute).