Add components to the repository

Users with the user profiles Technology Manager, Portfolio Manager, and Portfolio Admin can add and edit components in Alfabet. Click for an overview of permission concepts.

You can add a new component from anywhere in the product via the orange New button in the header. Or go to Technology ArchitectureComponents:

Create a new component from scratch. Click New > Component. Specify the component's attributes as well as the relationships that the component has to other assets in the repository.

A guided data entry view is available to help you provide relevant data and ensure data quality for the components in your repository. When you create a new component in the editor, click the Close and Continue as Guided Editing button to open the data entry view. Or go to the component's content area toolbar and click Analysis View > Data Entry View.

You will see a content area page with an additional panel listing content items like Basic Data, Lifecycle Data, Evaluation. Click the content item caption to navigate to the content item in the data entry view.

Symbols indicate where data quality issues exist. Click the data quality issue symbol to navigate your focus directly to the spot where you can fix the issue.

Edit the attributes and relationships for a component. Click the Navigate  Navigate button next to a component to open its content area. Specify the component's attributes as well as the relationships that the component has to other assets in the repository.

Try to capture as much information as possible about the component because complete data considerably improves the results of business questions and other analytics.