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Flow Classification Rules: allow actors to be the source node

Open davidwatkins73 opened this issue 2 years ago • 1 comments

Description

Currently only applications may be configured in flow classification rules.
Users have requested that Actor entities should also be allowable in these rules.

Starting points:

  • [ ] DDL update flow_classification_rule, migrate application_id to an entity ref (kind/id)
  • [ ] Update UI for flow classification rule entry
  • [ ] Update any dependent external jobs
  • [ ] Update calculator: org.finos.waltz.service.data_flow_decorator.LogicalFlowDecoratorRatingsCalculator

Resourcing

We intend to contribute this feature

davidwatkins73 avatar Oct 03 '22 09:10 davidwatkins73

Lightly edited email from SJ:

I am trying to bring increased governance to the use of Actors (i.e. non-applications) within Waltz.

We use Actors in our Waltz data flows to show where data moves between applications and Actors.

As a first stab for Waltz Actors I think we need the following:

  • Unique ID
  • Name
  • Description
  • Internal/External to Org flag
  • Org Owner

We would then want the additional capability to:

  • Use an Actor in the Flow Classification Rules (e.g. to make an Actor a Heritage Data Distributor)
  • Get the Actors into ext system (e.g.Collibra) to allow us to create formal Authority Statements with Actors) – may be a bigger development need

davidwatkins73 avatar Oct 03 '22 14:10 davidwatkins73