Using the Capability Browser

The capability browser allows normal users to browse and view the available business capabilities in your Zingoolarity instance and allows administrative users to maintain these (create, update and delete).

To invoke the capability browser, select Capabilities from either the main menu or from the home page:

(Zingoolarity capability browser)

Searching & Filtering for Capabilities

The capability browser allows you to search and filter for the following capability attributes:

• Lane
  Enter part of a name of the horizontal core business process cluster.
• Domain
  Enter part of a name of the vertical business process segment inside of a lane.
• Name
  Enter part of a capability name.
• Active
  Select whether you want to see all capabilities, only active capabilities or only inactive capabilities.
• Topic
  Enter part of an associated topic name (usually a lane, domain or a product in the product map of the company).

Click the Search button to perform the search or click the Clear button to reset the already entered search criteria.

Exporting Capabilities

If you are an administrative user, you can export the currently filtered list of capabilities in ZML format to a local file.

Click on the Export button to perform the export.

A file named export_app.zml or export_app.csv (depending on the export mode settings in the settings screen) will be created in your local Downloads directory.

Adding a New Capability

To add a new capability, click the Add button.
The new capability editor screen will appear:

(Zingoolarity capability editor screen)

Let us have a look at the different available attributes of a capability:

• Sort
  The optional Sort of a capability can be an alphanumeric key, on which the entire capability list is primarily sorted.
  If this is missing, the list will also be sorted by lane, domain and name.
• Lane
  The Lane of a capability is the horizontal core business process cluster to which the capability belongs.
• Domain
  The Domain of a capability is the vertical business process segment inside of a lane to which the capability belongs.
• Name
  The Name of an capability represents a short and easy-to-understand label for the capability.
• Detail
  The optional Detail of a capability is a full text description, optionally formatted in HTML.
  You can enter HTML tags directly (e.g. if you want to underline something in the text, you can include it in tags).
  In addition to that, you can use the embedded HTML WYSIWYG editor by activating it in the settings screen.
• Summary
  The optional Summary of a capability is a short version of the detailed description.
• Active
  The Active toggle of a capability can be used to disable (or enable) an capability.
  Disabled capabilities are not available in the various views or drop-down boxes of Zingoolarity.
  Setting an capability to inactive can be used as some kind of soft delete.
• Topic
  The Topic can be selected from a hierarchical list representing 3 levels of the product organization.
  It starts to locate all topics of types which have the product map flag set to yes, then renders 2 level upwards (for easy selection in a similar appearance as the product map).

At the bottom of the screen, a couple of buttons are available:

• The Save button will just save your changes (without leaving the editor screen).
• The Save+Back button will do the same but return to the previous screen.
• The Cancel button will just return to the previous screen (without saving).
• The Delete button will request confirmation, will delete the record and then will return to the previous screen.
  Note: Deleting an capability is only possible, if the capability is not yet used somewhere in Zingoolarity already; if this is the case, you will see an appropriate error message.
  The Log button will show a historical transaction log of the current record (for auditing purposes).

Editing an Existing Capability

To edit an existing capability, click the Edit button next to the capability in the list shown in the capability browser after searching.