SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANA

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1 SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2 Working with Diagrams in SAP EA Designer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.1 Creating a Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9
2.2 Searching for Diagrams or Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Viewing Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
Navigating in the Model Structure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Viewing Lists. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
Object Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .17
Commenting on Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Sharing Links to, Printing, and Exporting Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Applying Heat Map Coloring to a Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
Generating a Report on a Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Comparing Diagram Versions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
Keyboard Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
2.4 Editing Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Creating and Deleting Objects and Symbols in the Diagram. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Creating and Editing Objects in a List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31
Creating Additional Diagrams in a Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Importing Objects from CSV Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Reusing Library and Other External Objects in Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Symbol Format. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
AutoLayout for Diagrams and Composite Symbols. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .39
Verifying Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Reviewing Diagrams for Publication. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .50
Publishing Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51
2.5 Impact and Lineage Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Customizing the Analysis Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .54
2.6 Translating Diagrams and Viewing Translated Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
2.7 Model-to-Model Generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .59
2.8 Browsing The Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
Uploading and Working with External Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Renaming, Moving, and Deleting Repository Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Subscribing to Change Notifications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Object Names and Codes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .62
Exporting Models from and Importing Models to the Repository. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .64
Understanding Document Permissions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
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3 Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .67
3.1 Requirement Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .68
3.2 Requirements (RQM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Linking Requirements with Design Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .72
Assigning Workloads. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3.3 Users and Groups (RQM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
Adding Users and Groups to a Group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .73
3.4 Importing Requirements from a ReqIF File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .74
3.5 Exporting Requirements to a ReqIF File. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .75
4 Enterprise Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
4.1 Structuring EAM Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .77
4.2 Linking EAM Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82
4.3 Analyzing EAM Objects with Criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .84
4.4 Reusing Objects in an EAM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
4.5 Organization Architecture Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Sites (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .87
Organization Units (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .88
People (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Roles (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
4.6 Business Architecture Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .92
Business Capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .93
Process Groups and Business Processes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .95
Value Streams and Value Flows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .98
4.7 Application Architecture Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .99
Systems and Applications (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .100
Databases (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .101
Components (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .103
Documents, and Reports (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Forms (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .105
ETL Jobs (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106
Contracts (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Application and Business Services (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .108
Data (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
4.8 Infrastructure Architecture Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .111
Servers, Workstations, Mobile Devices, and Network Nodes (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Networks (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .114
Deployment Instances (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .116
4.9 Goal and EA Project Modeling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Goals (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .118
Programs, Projects, and Phases (EAM). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .119
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5 Business Process Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
5.1 BPMN 2.0. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
BPMN 2.0 Descriptive. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .121
BPMN 2.0 Executable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .134
5.2 Importing SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Process Diagrams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Exporting Diagram Changes to Solution Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Updating Diagram Changes from Solution Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
5.3 Process Maps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153
Creating a Multi-Level Process Map. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
6 Information Architecture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
6.1 Conceptual Data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .158
Entities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Relationships. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .163
Inheritances. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Associations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
Structured Types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .169
Data Items. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .170
Generating a CDM to a PDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .171
6.2 Physical Data (Databases). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Migrating a Database to SAP HANA. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .180
Reversing Calculation Views for Impact Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
SAP HANA 2.0 Deployment Infrastructure (HDI). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182
SAP HANA 2.0 Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Oracle 12c. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
SAP SQL Anywhere 17. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .221
Microsoft SQL Server 2016. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .230
IBM DB2 v11 for z/OS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .252
Teradata 15. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .259
Common Database Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Reverse-Engineering a Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .288
Generating a PDM to a New PDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
6.3 NoSQL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .291
Document Schemas (NoSQL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .293
Primitive and Complex Properties (NoSQL). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
Reverse-Engineering JSON Schemas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .296
Generating JSON Schemas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .297
6.4 Data Movement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297
Database Inputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 298
Data Transformation Steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .299
Database Outputs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301
Reverse-Engineering FlowGraph Files to Your Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
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Generating FlowGraph Files from Your Model. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .303
7 Common Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
7.1 Business Rules. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .305
Attaching a Business Rule to an Object. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
7.2 Areas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
7.3 Packages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .307
7.4 File Objects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
7.5 Traceability Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
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SAP Enterprise Architecture Designer, Edition for SAP HANA (SAP EA Designer) lets you capture, analyze, and
present your organization's landscapes, strategies, requirements, processes, data, and other artifacts in a
shared environment. Using industry-standard notations and techniques, organizations can leverage rich
metadata and use models and diagrams to drive understanding and promote shared outcomes in creating
innovative systems, information sets, and processes to support goals and capabilities.

SAP EA Designer supports the creation and editing of the following kinds of diagrams:
● Business Process - Business process diagrams help you identify, describe, and decompose business
processes. SAP EA Designer supports two variants of BPMN 2.0:
○ BPMN 2.0 Descriptive - Commonly used by process owners, BPMN 2.0 Descriptive is aimed at
business users and contains a subset of the BPMN 2.0 objects suitable for business process design
and analysis. See BPMN 2.0 Descriptive [page 121].
○ BPMN 2.0 Executable - Commonly used by process implementers, BPMN 2.0 Executable includes all
the standard BPMN 2.0 objects, and is aimed at technical modelers and those who are reverse-
engineering from SAP BPM or Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler. See BPMN 2.0 Executable [page 134].
In addition, you can import process diagrams from and export updates to SAP Solution Manager 7.2. See
Importing SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Process Diagrams [page 150].
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● Conceptual Data - Conceptual data models help you design and analyze the conceptual structure of your
information systems, to identify the principal entities to be represented, their attributes, and the
relationships between them. See Conceptual Data [page 158].
● Data Movement Diagram - Data movement diagrams help you design and analyze the transfer of data
between data stores, and the transformations that they undergo on the way. You can reverse-engineer
flowgraph files from and generate them to SAP Web IDE. See Data Movement [page 297].
● Enterprise Architecture Diagram - Enterprise architecture diagrams help you analyze and document your
organization, its capabilities and processes, the applications and systems that support them, and the
physical architecture on which they are implemented. See Enterprise Architecture [page 76].
● NoSQL Document Schema (JSON) - NoSQL diagrams help you design, analyze, and document the JSON
structures that are accepted and generated by your systems. You can reverse-engineer JSON schemas (or
derive them from JSON documents) and generate JSON schema files. See NoSQL [page 291].
● Physical Data - Physical data models help you design and analyze the structure of your databases. You can
reverse-engineer any supported database and generate to SAP HANA. See Physical Data (Databases)
[page 179].
● Process Map - A process map provides a graphical view of your business architecture, and helps you
identify your business capabilities and high-level processes, independent of the people and business units
who fulfill them. See Process Maps [page 153].
● Requirements List - Requirements documents display a hierarchical list of written requirements. See
Requirements [page 67].
SAP EA Designer supports consuming your content through:
● Browsing diagrams and model objects online (see Viewing Diagrams [page 13]).
● Sharing links to diagrams, printing them, and exporting them as SVG images or PowerPoint slides (see
Sharing Links to, Printing, and Exporting Diagrams [page 19]).
● Generating reports on your diagrams and model objects (see Generating a Report on a Diagram [page
23]).
● Highlighting diagram symbols based on dependencies or criteria (see Applying Heat Map Coloring to a
Diagram [page 20]).
● Running an impact analysis on model objects (see Impact and Lineage Analysis [page 51]).
● Posting comments to diagrams and model objects (see Commenting on Diagrams [page 18]).
SAP EA Designer works with the following Web browsers:
● Chrome
● Firefox
● Edge
 Note
There are a number of known display issues when using Edge. We recommend that Windows users use
Chrome instead.
● Safari for macOS
● Mobile Safari for iOS
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To visit SAP EA Designer, navigate to the URL indicated to you by your administrator and enter your user name
and password. To log on with your SAP HANA XSA user, click the link at the bottom of the dialog.

● The homepage provides access to all the features of SAP EA Designer. The following cards may appear:
○ Quick Links Card - Lists common commands and favorite folders:
○ Create New Diagram - To create your own diagrams (see Creating a Diagram [page 9]).
○ Browse 'Repository' - To access the full repository contents (see Browsing The Repository [page
60]). You can add shortcuts to other folders by favoriting them in the Repository Explorer.
○ Worklist cards - List diagrams that you are editing or have submitted or that have been sent to you for
comment or review:
○ Draft Diagrams - Lists diagrams that you are currently editing. Click the list item to open the
diagram for editing or submission (see Editing Diagrams [page 27]) or click the X to delete your
changes and remove it from the list.
○ Submitted Diagrams - Lists diagrams that you have submitted for publication and that are awaiting
review. You can open a submitted diagram for viewing, but you cannot edit it.
○ Invitations to Comment - Lists draft diagrams to which you have been invited to comment before
they are submitted for publication. Click a diagram to open it for comment (see Commenting on
Diagrams [page 18]).
○ Invitations to Review - Lists draft diagrams that have been submitted to you for review for
publication. Click a diagram to open it for review (Reviewing Diagrams for Publication [page 50]).
 Note
If your administrator has configured SAP EA Designer to send emails, then you will receive an email
when a diagram arrives in your workspace for comment or review, when comments are posted to
your diagrams, and when your diagrams are approved or rejected for publication.
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○ Diagram Cards - Provide direct access to diagrams. The icon changes when the diagram enters one of
your worklists. These cards may be pushed to your homepage by an administrator, and you can add
your own by favoriting diagrams in the diagram viewer (see Viewing Diagrams [page 13]) or the
homepage Recently Viewed carousel. To remove a card, hover over it and click the Remove button in
the top-right corner.
○ Recently Viewed - Lists diagrams that you have viewed or edited. Click the card to open a carousel
containing your recently viewed diagrams. Click a card in the carousel to open the diagram, or click the
star at the bottom of the card to add the diagram to your homepage.
○ [administrators] Administration Tasks - Lists shortcuts to pages for managing users, groups, settings,
and extensions, and for reviewing logs of activities.
 Note
You can reorganize the order of the cards by drag and drop but the page is constrained to show a
similar number of cards in each column.
● In the top toolbar:
○ Click the Search button to search the repository contents (see Searching for Diagrams or Objects
[page 11]).
○ Click your name to access configuration options:
○ Manage Cards - Show or hide cards in your homepage.
○ User Account - Review the information stored for your repository user account. Click Download to
download the information.
○ Change Password - (If your user is controlled by SAP EA Designer).
 Note
Account names and passwords managed by SAP EA Designer are case-sensitive and must
only contain standard ASCII characters.
○ Language - Change the interface language.
○ About - Obtain version information for SAP EA Designer.
○ Help - Access this help.
○ Log Out
2.1 Creating a Diagram
If you have Submit or higher permission on a repository folder, you can create a new diagram.
Procedure
1. Click the Create New Diagram item in the homepage Quick Links card.
2. In the left pane, navigate to the repository location where you want to create the diagram.
You must have at least Submit permission (see Understanding Document Permissions [page 65]) for the
location where you want to create the diagram.
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 Note
You can also create diagrams in the repository explorer, by navigating to the folder where you want to
create the diagram, clicking the Diagrams tab, and then clicking the + tile (or clicking the menu button
and selecting Create New Diagram).
3. Enter a name for the diagram, and select the type of diagram to create:
○ Business Process - Business process diagrams help you identify, describe, and decompose business
processes. SAP EA Designer supports two variants of BPMN 2.0:
○ BPMN 2.0 Descriptive - Commonly used by process owners, BPMN 2.0 Descriptive is aimed at
business users and contains a subset of the BPMN 2.0 objects suitable for business process
design and analysis. See BPMN 2.0 Descriptive [page 121].
○ BPMN 2.0 Executable - Commonly used by process implementers, BPMN 2.0 Executable includes
all the standard BPMN 2.0 objects, and is aimed at technical modelers and those who are reverse-
engineering from SAP BPM or Eclipse BPMN2 Modeler. See BPMN 2.0 Executable [page 134].
In addition, you can import process diagrams from and export updates to SAP Solution Manager 7.2.
See Importing SAP Solution Manager 7.2 Process Diagrams [page 150].
○ Conceptual Data - Conceptual data models help you design and analyze the conceptual structure of
your information systems, to identify the principal entities to be represented, their attributes, and the
relationships between them. See Conceptual Data [page 158].
○ Data Movement Diagram - Data movement diagrams help you design and analyze the transfer of data
between data stores, and the transformations that they undergo on the way. You can reverse-engineer
flowgraph files from and generate them to SAP Web IDE. See Data Movement [page 297].
○ Enterprise Architecture Diagram - Enterprise architecture diagrams help you analyze and document
your organization, its capabilities and processes, the applications and systems that support them, and
the physical architecture on which they are implemented. See Enterprise Architecture [page 76].
○ NoSQL Document Schema (JSON) - NoSQL diagrams help you design, analyze, and document the
JSON structures that are accepted and generated by your systems. You can reverse-engineer JSON
schemas (or derive them from JSON documents) and generate JSON schema files. See NoSQL [page
291].
○ Physical Data - Physical data models help you design and analyze the structure of your databases. You
can reverse-engineer any supported database and generate to SAP HANA. See Physical Data
(Databases) [page 179].
○ Process Map - A process map provides a graphical view of your business architecture, and helps you
identify your business capabilities and high-level processes, independent of the people and business
units who fulfill them. See Process Maps [page 153].
○ Requirements List - Requirements documents display a hierarchical list of written requirements. See
Requirements [page 67].
4. Click Create to create your diagram and open it in the Diagram Editor. Use the tools in the toolbox to draw
your diagram (see Editing Diagrams [page 27]).
5. Click Save at any time to save the current state of your diagram. After saving you can navigate away from
or close the window. Your draft diagram will not be available to other users, but is listed in the Draft
Diagrams section of your homepage (see Working with Diagrams in SAP EA Designer [page 8]).
6. [optional] Invite other users to comment on your diagram before publication (see Commenting on
Diagrams [page 18]).
7. [optional] Verify that the diagram conforms with the appropriate modeling rules (see Verifying Diagrams
[page 42]).
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