My name is Kelvin D. Meeks, based out of Seattle Washington in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the United States.   I'm an Enterprise Architect that works with clients on a corp-to-corp consulting basis.   My personal motto is "Have Passport, Will Travel".   I began my  journey with Mega in mid-2016 - leading the RFP evaluation/selection effort for one of my clients - and continuing through to the adoption and implementation. We launched our Mega Hopex initiative in 2nd Quarter 2017, initially focusing on Application Portfolio Management - and then expanding to leverage the new ArchiMate capabilities for Enterprise Architecture governance processes (through the Architecture Review Board).   I have 34 years experience across multiple industries (Telecom, Transportation, Banking and Financial Services, E-Commerce, Criminal Justice, Insurance) - working with small start-ups to $50B multi-national firms. Previous roles have included CTO, Chief Architect, Principal Architect, Enterprise Architect, Integration Architect, Solution Architect, and Development Manager. I'm very hands-on with regards to maintaining my technical skills - and am an evangelist for Open Source Software.   More about my background and experience https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelvinmeeks My passion is for sailing - and I currently have a 1963 35 ft. Pearson Alberg sailboat ... View more

My post was more focused on documenting a flow order for objects displayed in a diagram (ex: operation) ex: operation1,   operation3,  operation2   From what I understand here You have an Organizational Process describeb by 4 diagrams You want to control the order of of diagrams and display something related to diagram (ex: drawing..) in a report   You need to: order the link between organizational process and the diagrams (MetaAssocation ( ~EIedE)fyA1y0[(Described Element/Abstract Diagram)])  build a report component (ex RTF descriptor) that browses this MetaAssociation and can consider the order value. Note that existing report template may not browses this MetaAssociation Order the link between organizational process and the diagrams Build a RTF  descriptor  that browses this MetaAssociation   ... View more

@DMiddleton wrote: Hello, the System Used object allows a modeler to show that some sort of "System" is used or needed by the process. Yes you can connect the actual resources to the System Used BUT when modeling (especially a new process) you may not know what actual System, Application or other resource is that will be used. In that case the System Used can be named and helps show that some sort of system is required to perform that process. Hope that helps. Good day D and thanks for sharing. Please let me comment something additional. I will appreciate your insights about it.   For me, who's used to model through direct relationships between main objects, it’s been hard to find real value   in the   usage of System Used as a type of object, instead of as a type of relationship.   Worts yet because the representation of System Used is not uniform across key diagram types. For example, let’s consider an Organizational Process Diagram and an Application Usage Viewpoint Diagram. At the   Application Usage Viewpoint Diagram, System Used is represented as a line, resembling a type of direct relationship between the two main objects. While at the Organizational Process Diagram, System Used is represented as a rounded box, with actual Applications (and Resources) listed below the box, depicting the true nature of System Used as an object type and container.   Wouldn’t it be cleaner to model System Used as a type or relationship between Processes and Applications? What modeling value am I not seeing with the current definition, and polymorphism characteristic of System Used?   Thanks again. ... View more

Thanks Hsoegaard for the hint. Can you give me a hint on where can I learn about the meta-model?   ... View more

Thanks Axel. I'll give it a try. Just wonder, how different would it be at the desktop client? Cheers. ... View more

Thanks Jerome for the followup. Whould you mind if I show screenshots of the other EA tool I use? ... View more