Save content to the content repository
You can save a variety of analytics about the IT architecture as well as detailed information about a single asset in the IT portfolio. You can add views, data workbenches and their graphic visualizations, attribute groups, cards showing KPIs, and any content you save to the content repository to create your own start page or to add to existing content area pages. For example, you could add content to the My Dashboard page, add content to the standard Overview page of an application content area, or even create your own page and add content to that.
Some content items may already be in the content repository and can be added to a content area. But typically you will add the content that interests you to the content repository. You can add anything that is available in the content repository to a content area.
To view all content items and content pages that you add to the content repository, click your user icon in the upper right corner of the screen and select My Content Items.
Add a data workbench or data workbench visualization to the content repository.
- Go to the data workbench and specify the visualization you want to save. You can save the data workbench with filters settings or you could save a visualization such as a Gantt chart or pie chart derived from the data workbench. Click for details about how to define the data you want to see in a data workbench.
- Once the data workbench visualization is specified, click the 3-dots button of the visualization and click Add to Content Repository.
- Define a name and a description for the visualization. The configuration name is used in the content area as caption for the visualization.
- If you want to share the content item with another user, specify the users to share it with. The content item will be available in the selected user's content area via > Add to Content Repository. When you add the content item later, you can search for it by setting the Item Type field to Data Workbenches.
Users can drill-down to a data workbench by clicking a section of a business chart such as a slice of a pie or doughnut chart or bar of a bar chart. A data workbench showing the assets represented by the business chart section will open in a separate browser tab.
Change an existing content item and add it to the content repository. You may want to use an existing content item that is already displayed in the content area, modify it, and use it in another content area.
- Go to the content item, click the 3-dots button for the content item and click Navigate to View to drill-down to the content item.
- Make the changes as needed for the view.
- Click the three vertical dots button and click Add to Content Repository. Define the name and description and specify users to share it with.
Add a view to the content repository. You can add a standard view, report, or diagram as content to the content repository.
- Go to the content area where the view is located (for example, the Asset Relations view or Responsibilities view in the application content area.
- Click the 3-dots button for the view and click Navigate to View to drill-down to the view.
- Specify any filters if necessary and click the 3-dots button and click Add to Content Repository. Define the name and description and specify users and user groups to share it with. When you add the view later, you can search for it by setting the Item Type field to Views.
Add a content page to the content repository. You can add an entire content page to the content repository. It can then be reused, modified and shared with others.
- Go to the content page and click the 3-dots button and click Add to Content Repository. . When you add the content page later, you can search for it by setting the Item Type field to Content Area.