Usually the component model is forwarded to developers with the specification of the interfaces. A simple way of detailing the interfaces would be to have the Logical Connectors table ordered by "To Element". In this way, the developer would have all the logical connectors names (alias interfaces) of each component consolidated.

Hi! I've done the setup correctly in a Windows 10 box and when I start the offline workspace in a chrome browser but the assets file (like business automations, icons, etc) which I downloaded, unzipped into workspace do not show. So I cannot use the tool!

In the POM you can define Prescribed, Virtual and Container Nodes but there is nothing equivalent to the physical description of a cloud service. For example if I want to describe a "Cloud Object Storage", I can define a "logical node" named "Object Storage" but there should be a "physical node" corresponding to it with a name that is defined in the IBM Cloud Resource List.

The powerpoint exports include "IBM Confidential" in the footer of the master layouts and the IBM logo seems to be shrinked in the headers.

https://github.com/IBM/itaa-docs/blob/master/docs/community-edition/Overview-ITAA-CE.md states that you can import but when you press the export/import button, only export is available.

The https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architectures/edit/architect-assistant page states to see the FAQ section for troubleshooting but there is no section in the installation guide with this name.

Remove "(available soon!)" from the last mention to the community edition "(SIngle-User IBM IT Architect Assistant, Community Edition (available soon!)" text in the https://github.com/IBM/itaa-docs

Hello, I suggest you include some guidelines or instructions for the “ca-offline-macos” cannot be opened because the developer cannot be verified. message.
I a using MACOS Catalina Version 10.15.6.
Regards.

When you select justify in the text editor in both sections, the viewer still shows the text justified to the left. But if you export to .doc there the justify is ok.

I included a png image to my use case basic flow and now I can't export to ppt. I get error:
{ Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'workspace/..//workspace/Wallet/offline-images/file_7f1c68ba1737b577.png'
at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:646:18)
at Object.fs.openSync (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:490:32)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (fs.js:551:33)
at Object.fs.readFileSync (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:686:36)
at Object.fn (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:852:17)
at Router.handleRequest (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/routes-router/index.js:157:19)
at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
at Server.emit (events.js:214:7)
at parserOnIncoming (_http_server.js:660:12)
at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (_http_common.js:119:17)
errno: -2,
code: 'ENOENT',
syscall: 'open',
path: 'workspace/..//workspace/Wallet/offline-images/file_7f1c68ba1737b577.png' }

As you can see from the last sentence, it seems to be an error with concatenating the directoy name.
Regards.
Carlos

I followed the instructions to install the assistant code. I am installing it on MacBook Pro.
When I run the run.sh I get the following error:
Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/zoro/DevLab/IBM/cogarch/Community-Edition-3.17.0/CAAppOffline/tomcat Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/zoro/DevLab/IBM/cogarch/Community-Edition-3.17.0/CAAppOffline/tomcat Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/zoro/DevLab/IBM/cogarch/Community-Edition-3.17.0/CAAppOffline/tomcat/temp Using JRE_HOME: ../jre/Contents/Home Using CLASSPATH: /Users/zoro/DevLab/IBM/cogarch/Community-Edition-3.17.0/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/zoro/DevLab/IBM/cogarch/Community-Edition-3.17.0/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar Using CATALINA_OPTS: Tomcat started. ./run.sh: line 11: ./ca-offline-macos: Bad CPU type in executable

I tried to run the command
xattr -cr ./ca-offline-macos

But the issue still exists and I can not start the server.

When I checked the logs folder I found the catalina.out file which includes the following line:

/Users/zoro/DevLab/IBM/cogarch/Community-Edition-3.17.0/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/catalina.sh: line 504: ../jre/Contents/Home/bin/java: Bad CPU type in executable

Here is the information of my system

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro17,1
Chip: Apple M1
Total Number of Cores: 8 (4 performance and 4 efficiency)
Memory: 16 GB
System Firmware Version: 7429.81.3
OS Loader Version: 7429.81.3

System Software Overview:

System Version: macOS 12.2.1 (21D62)
Kernel Version: Darwin 21.3.0

All the icons from change log, export, copy and information are not visible. This seems to happen since a new refresh from Google Chrome.


In the attached screenshots you can see the difference between Chrome and Safari. As you can see from the first screen, I was able to hover over the export location and was able to enable the export panel. I suppose this has something to do with default colors in the new Chrome. I am using Chrome Versión 114.0.5735.198 (Build oficial) (x86_64)

How can we know that we are at the latest version of Community Edition? The web interface on my local displays v3.0 but on GitHub I can see there are tags that are 3.7. If we can update what should be the procedure?
Thanks!

Hello, I haven't used Cognitive Architect for a while but now when I try to export a file I get an error message when exporting to ppt and in the case of word format I get the text but not the included images. I am including the log and har files of the run.
CAA.log
CAA.har.zip
Any idea what I am missing?
I am using the latest version: Version V3.2.2
Regards.

Broken links in installation guide https://github.com/IBM/itaa-docs/blob/master/docs/community-edition/Install.md to operation guide, artifact guide and LICENSE.

The real position of a "self call" message is not respected in the word and ppt version of the architecture. By the way, practice is not enough to position the message lines especially when during the definition of the flow you decide to add a message in the middle... which is something common during the elavoration of the architecture.
Here a screenshot the the Dynamic View:

Here the output of the word export:
Here the powerpoint version:

Considering that the documentation generated with this tool is considered System Documentation and in Agile it is recommended that it be included in the same versioning tool as the code .... is there some type of How-To to join ITAA with these tools, like Github?

Hello ,the User Guide states that copy/paste should detect name conflicts but it directly creates duplicate entries with "copy of". Please can you confirm that this feature is available in community edition or what a I doing wrong?
By the way, the export/import also speaks about importing from excel but later the import doesn't give more detail about that. I suppose you forgot to delete also this feature from the doc.
Thanks in advance
Carlos

From https://github.com/IBM/itaa-docs/blob/master/docs/community-edition/Overview-ITAA-CE.md the community edition should shpport this features. It seems to me that the documentation is confusing between offline (enterprise) and community edition as many features are not available. Please can you synchronize the text with the features available.

Hello, I can't find a way to delete orphan elements in the community edition.

Hi,
I have set up the tomcat & a JDK version, run the tool. created a project. updated few details then tried to download the word document given me below error: Please verify and provide details. thanks
kishore@KISHOREs-MacBook-Pro CAAppOffline % ./install.sh
Please keep this window open until the installation is completed. If any error appears, please rerun the script.
Input tomcat-8.5 folder path(e.g. ~/Desktop/apache-tomcat-8.5.45), then click Enter: /Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/apache-tomcat-8.5.78
Input jre folder path(e.g. ~/Desktop/jre1.8.0_131.jre), then click Enter: /Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/jdk-18.jdk
Installed the application successfully. You can input "./run.sh" to run the application.
kishore@KISHOREs-MacBook-Pro CAAppOffline % ./run.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/apache-tomcat-8.5.78
Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/apache-tomcat-8.5.78
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/apache-tomcat-8.5.78/temp
Using JRE_HOME: /usr/local/opt/openjdk@8
Using CLASSPATH: /Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/apache-tomcat-8.5.78/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/kishore/Documents/IBM/Architectures/CAAppOffline/apache-tomcat-8.5.78/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_OPTS:
Tomcat started.
Listening on 0.0.0.0, port 3300
Open the offline App by copying and pasting the link below into the address bar of your web browser.

http://localhost:3300
express deprecated res.send(status): Use res.sendStatus(status) instead ../../../../../../snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:36:36
{ Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3302
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)
errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
syscall: 'connect',
address: '127.0.0.1',
port: 3302 }
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3302
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)
{ Error: socket hang up
at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:342:15)
at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:377:23)
at emitOne (events.js:121:20)
at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
at TCP._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:561:12) code: 'ECONNRESET' }
Error: socket hang up
at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:342:15)
at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:377:23)
at emitOne (events.js:121:20)
at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
at TCP._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:561:12)
{ Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3302
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)
errno: 'ECONNREFUSED',
code: 'ECONNREFUSED',
syscall: 'connect',
address: '127.0.0.1',
port: 3302 }
Error: connect ECONNREFUSED 127.0.0.1:3302
at TCPConnectWrap.afterConnect [as oncomplete] (net.js:1191:14)
{ Error: socket hang up
at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:342:15)
at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:377:23)
at emitOne (events.js:121:20)
at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
at TCP._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:561:12) code: 'ECONNRESET' }
Error: socket hang up
at createHangUpError (_http_client.js:342:15)
at Socket.socketCloseListener (_http_client.js:377:23)
at emitOne (events.js:121:20)
at Socket.emit (events.js:211:7)
at TCP._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:561:12)

In the IT architect Assistnat, there is nothing in the collaboration section,

getting an error while starting ITAA on mc osx
Tomcat 8.5.61
openjdk-15.0.1
Mac osx 11.1

Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: ../jre/Contents/Home
Using CLASSPATH: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_OPTS:
Tomcat started.
{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::3301
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at Server.listen (net.js:1485:7)
at Function.listen (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:618:24)
at Object. (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:704:5)
at Module._compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1261:22)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:662:10)
at Module.load (module.js:564:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:504:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:496:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1316:12)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:240:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:661:3
errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
code: 'EADDRINUSE',
syscall: 'listen',
address: '::',
port: 3301 }
Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::3301
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at Server.listen (net.js:1485:7)
at Function.listen (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:618:24)
at Object. (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:704:5)
at Module._compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1261:22)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:662:10)
at Module.load (module.js:564:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:504:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:496:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1316:12)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:240:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:661:3
{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:3300
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at doListen (net.js:1510:7)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:142:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)
errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
code: 'EADDRINUSE',
syscall: 'listen',
address: '0.0.0.0',
port: 3300 }
Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:3300
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at doListen (net.js:1510:7)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:142:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)
Rolands-MBP:CAAppOffline rh42$ ./run.sh
Using CATALINA_BASE: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat
Using CATALINA_HOME: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat/temp
Using JRE_HOME: ../jre/Contents/Home
Using CLASSPATH: /Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/bootstrap.jar:/Users/rh42/Architektur/CAApp/CAAppOffline/tomcat/bin/tomcat-juli.jar
Using CATALINA_OPTS:
Tomcat started.
{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::3301
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at Server.listen (net.js:1485:7)
at Function.listen (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:618:24)
at Object. (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:704:5)
at Module._compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1261:22)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:662:10)
at Module.load (module.js:564:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:504:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:496:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1316:12)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:240:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:661:3
errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
code: 'EADDRINUSE',
syscall: 'listen',
address: '::',
port: 3301 }
Error: listen EADDRINUSE :::3301
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at Server.listen (net.js:1485:7)
at Function.listen (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/application.js:618:24)
at Object. (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:704:5)
at Module._compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1261:22)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:662:10)
at Module.load (module.js:564:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:504:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:496:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1316:12)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:240:16)
at bootstrap_node.js:661:3
{ Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:3300
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at doListen (net.js:1510:7)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:142:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9)
errno: 'EADDRINUSE',
code: 'EADDRINUSE',
syscall: 'listen',
address: '0.0.0.0',
port: 3300 }
Error: listen EADDRINUSE 0.0.0.0:3300
at Server.setupListenHandle [as _listen2] (net.js:1360:14)
at listenInCluster (net.js:1401:12)
at doListen (net.js:1510:7)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:142:11)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:181:9

The Use case artifact should remember the last "sort by" defined. Each time I enter a use case description and go back to the list, the order of the use cases return to creation date. This is not critical but annoying.

Can you provide a linux client install script?
Also, perhaps use the IBM JRE/JDK?

Link https://github.com/IBM/itaa-docs/blob/master/master/docs/CATips.md in https://github.com/IBM/itaa-docs/blob/master/docs/community-edition/Overview-ITAA-CE.md is broken (error 404).

The ppowerpoint templates include an IBM copyright message. The options, a) if it must be legaly included, change to a more current date. It states 2017 and ITAA was released in 2019. b) if we consdier that the architecture is owned by the user, this should be deleted.

Hello, I hope you are taken care now.
The https://www.ibm.com/cloud/architecture/architectures/edit/architect-assistant page now includes a step 4 (Download the IT Architect Assistant files).
Please can you provide instructions for installing them.
Thanks in advance.

It is not possible to download the IT architech assistnat stand alone, because an error is displayed.

MACOS v11.4
Tried to create a workspace , but got error message in terminal.

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, mkdir 'workspace/jump' at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:885:18) at CommonAssist.mkdir (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:155:8) at /snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:330:16 at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5) at next (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13) at jsonParser (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/body-parser/lib/types/json.js:101:7) at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5) at next (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13) at Route.dispatch (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3) at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir 'workspace/' at Object.fs.readdirSync (fs.js:904:18) at Object.fs.readdirSync (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:787:35) at readDirList (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:233:18) at Object.getRootList (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:270:5) at CommonAssist.loadAllFromRootList (/snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:101:26) at /snapshot/CA-APP/offline_server.js:282:16 at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5) at next (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:137:13) at Route.dispatch (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/route.js:112:3) at Layer.handle [as handle_request] (/snapshot/CA-APP/node_modules/express/lib/router/layer.js:95:5)

It's said in the Install.md for CE :
Currently, the community edition is provided via a zip file in Github for downloading. After downloading, unzipping and installing, you can use it on your local system.

Problem : no package on github to download.