Exercise 27.1 VOLTA Integration

OBJECTIVES:

The new learning objectives of this exercise are to create a repository connection to a VOLTA repository on the Syndeia Web Dashboard (SWD), view the repository including properties, relations, and search, and create a reference connection.

PREPARATION:

This exercise assumes the student has

·       Syndeia Cloud 3.5 installed with a valid user account,

·       A valid user account to a VOLTA repository, and

·       A valid user account to at least one other online repository, e.g. JIRA.

The user can use any VOLTA repository they have available.  Because the content of your VOLTA repository will be different, the specific examples in the following exercise instructions are only a guide and example for your actions. It is generally advisable to carry out these exercises in a non-production repository, a “sandbox”, set up for training and practice purposes.

See Video 1.9 for an introduction to the Syndeia Web Dashboard.

BACKGROUND - VOLTA

As envisioned by Intercax, the Digital Thread is composed of inter-model connections between models in different repositories, which Syndeia creates and manages, and intra-model connections between elements in the same repository, which the individual tool creates and manages. As of Syndeia release 3.5, the Syndeia Web Dashboard can extract and display some model information from the VOLTA repository. Figure 1 shows a tree view of this information, with labels identifying the VOLTA element types. Note the different icons. The label color coding indicates how the VOLTA element type is mapped to the Syndeia Cloud element types: Repository (green), Container (red), and Artifact (blue).

In the case of the Syndeia VOLTA integration, the Relations table (Step 7) and the Digital Thread Explorer (Step 9 onwards) can display some intra-model connection types between Artifacts, shown in Table 1, as well as inter-model connections. The intra-model connections are not permanently part of the Syndeia Cloud graph; they are extracted and displayed as needed.

This information is important in formulating and interpreting Syndeia graph queries. A more complete diagram of the VOLTA data model as it is understood by Syndeia is available through the web dashboard help menu on the left.