FINOS - Waltz Khartec, open source producer of Waltz: An Enterprise Architecture information service
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Product updates, screencasts, release notes and implementation guidance from the Waltz community.
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Apr 3, 2023blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Waltz Changes - Q1 2023
Overview Waltz 1.48 (late March 2023) introduces several new features and some important fixes.Read more → -
Aug 26, 2022blogwaltz
Viewing Waltz Flow data in Solidatus
Solidatus is a fantastic piece of software for understanding your organizations data lineage:Read more → -
Aug 26, 2022blogwaltz
10,000 Commits
We are pleased to announce that the Waltz project has just hit 10,000 commits.Read more → -
Apr 19, 2022blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Waltz Tour
Waltz Tour Over the course of 20 minutes, Mark Guerriero takes us on a tour of Waltz features and gives valuable insights and tips on how Waltz can be used in your enterprise.Read more → -
Mar 24, 2022blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Report Grid Improvements
Waltz 1.40 Report Grid Enhancements A large part of the recent 1.40 release of Waltz was focused around Report Grids. Notable enhancements are: support for Change Initiatives, app group / data type / metadata column support improved filtering and sharing...Read more → -
Feb 18, 2022blogwaltzdevjooqliquibase
Developers: Database process enhancements
Intro We’ve recently been focussed on making Waltz more welcoming to newcomers. Part of that has been through enhancing our getting-started processes with the aid of some fantastic contributions from the Waltz community. In particular: Docker images are now published...Read more → -
Feb 10, 2022blogwaltzdevscreencast
Screencast: Survey Improvements
Waltz 1.39 Survey Improvements Surveys continue to be one of the most used features of Waltz. However, some users are being asked to complete or approve many, many surveys. To help users understand what is being asked of them, and...Read more → -
Nov 5, 2021blogwaltzdeploymentscreencast
Deployment: Getting Started
Overview In October 2021 we gave a short talk at the FINOS members-only meetup in London which detailed how to get Waltz up and running quickly.Read more → -
Nov 4, 2021blogwaltzdev
Development: Renaming Packages
Moving into the org.finos namespace As part of the development of Waltz 1.39 we have (finally) completed the renaming of Waltz assets away from com.khartec and onto org.finos.Read more → -
Aug 24, 2021blogwaltznavigationscreencast
Screencast: Introducing Waltz 1.36
Overview Waltz 1.36 (late August 2021) introduces several new features and some important fixes.Read more → -
Aug 19, 2021blogwaltznavigationscreencast
Navigation: Introducing the Sidebar
Overview Waltz 1.36 (late August 2021) introduces a new way to navigate between sections on a page. We have removed the horizontal section menu and replaced it with a new sidebar. The sidebar makes it easier to see what sections...Read more → -
Jul 23, 2021blogwaltzsql
Surveys: Bulk adding people to already issued surveys
Background We recently issued a batch of custom application surveys to several hundred participants. Using the standard survey functionality we identified the applications (using an app group) and the participants by their involvement to the applications in the group.Read more → -
Jul 22, 2021blogwaltz
Release 1.35 and Preparing for 1.36
1.35 Waltz version 1.35 has been released.Read more → -
Jun 30, 2021blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Flow Diagrams and Overlays
Screencast: Flow Diagrams and Overlays In this post we will look at the new Flow Diagrams features introduced as part of Waltz 1.34.Read more → -
Apr 28, 2021blogwaltzscreencast
Tutorial: Creating Custom Environments
Tutorial: Creating Conditional Surveys In this tutorial we will look at the new Custom Environments feature introduced as part of Waltz 1.32.Read more → -
Feb 3, 2021blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Introducing Waltz 1.30
Screencast: Waltz 1.30 In this short video we will take a look at 3 new enhancement to Waltz 1.30Read more → -
Jan 22, 2021blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Completing Flow Attestations
Screencast: Completing Flow Attestations To promote data quality Waltz supports attestations. In this short screencast Mark will walk you through how to ensure attestations are completed accurately.Read more → -
Jan 21, 2021blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Mapping Applications to Enterprise Taxonomies
Screencast: Mapping Applications to Enterprise Taxonomies Waltz allows users to map applications to multiple taxonomies using custom rating schemes. This lets you describe different sets of characteristics about applications.Read more → -
Dec 2, 2020blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Creating App Groups
Screencast: Creating App Groups Application groups are a useful feature to quickly create ad-hoc collections of applications for analysis. Apps can be added individually or in bulk via a simple front end.Read more → -
Nov 29, 2020blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Partial Edge Drawing
Screencast: Partial Edge Drawing Waltz 1.29.1 introduces an improved way to look at complex flow graphs. Partial Edge Drawing is a technique where only part of each edge is drawn between vertices. This has the effect of reducing diagram clutter...Read more → -
Sep 17, 2020blogwaltz
Tutorial: Creating Conditional Surveys
Tutorial: Creating Conditional Surveys In this tutorial we will look at the new Conditional Survey feature introduced as part of Waltz 1.27.Read more → -
Aug 31, 2020blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Detailing Physical Flows
Screencast: Detailing Physical Flows Following on from his screencast on Logical Flows, Mark Guerriero takes us through creating/removing and editing physical flows in Waltz.Read more → -
Aug 31, 2020blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Detailing Logical Flows
Screencast: Detailing Logical Flows In this screencast Mark Guerriero walks you through creating/removing and editing Logical flows in Waltz.Read more → -
Jul 15, 2020blogwaltzscreencast
Screencast: Introducing Favourites
Screencast: Introducing Favourites This screencast walks you through the new functionality coming in the Waltz 1.26 release (due late July 2020).Read more → -
Jun 25, 2020blogwaltzdevscreencast
Screencast: Developers - Schema Modifications
Screencast: Developers - Schema Modifications This screencast walks you through making simple schema changes to the Waltz database using Liquibase and also showing how to apply the changes using Maven. We talk a little about naming conventions, and the structure...Read more → -
Jun 25, 2020blogwaltzadminscreencast
Screencast: Installing a Waltz demo instance
Screencast: Running - Installing a Waltz demo instance This screencast walks you through using docker-compose to quickly install and run a demo instance of Waltz (with sample data).Read more → -
Jun 18, 2020blogwaltzdevscreencast
Screencast: Developers - UI Sections
Screencast: Developers - UI Sections This screencast walks you through how sections in the UI are configured and added to pagesRead more → -
Jun 18, 2020blogwaltzdevscreencast
Screencast: Developers - Getting Started
Screencast: Developers - Getting Started If you would like to set Waltz up in a development environment check out this screencast:Read more → -
Jan 20, 2019blogwaltzdev
Formalising code architecture using ArchUnit
Formalising code architecture using ArchUnit I’ve been thinking about all the implicit rules in our code base recently, we ‘know’ that our endpoints should not talk directly to the data access layer and services should not call the web layer....Read more →
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