Use Tags for more powerful insights

Tags are a powerful feature to classify Fact Sheets with categories that are not covered by existing attributes or via relationships. This section shows you how to handle tags in a structured way to gain meaningful insights that are configured to your specific use-cases.

Tagging is a powerful feature to extend the data model of LeanIX and use individual aspects for filtering, documentation, highlighting and reports. This page explains

  • How tags can be created and grouped
  • How to assign tags to Fact Sheets
  • How to filter with tags in the Inventory and in the Reporting
  • How to use tags in the Reporting to create powerful individual views

How to create tags

As an administrator, you can decide between three different options:

  • On-the-fly tagging: All Workspace Members and Admins can create new tags directly in the Fact Sheet
  • Pre-defined tag groups OR On-the-fly tagging: For fact sheet types where tag groups are pre-defined by an Admin, on-the-fly tagging is disabled, otherwise Members and Admins can create their tags on-the-fly
  • Pre-defined only: Only Admins can create tags

In case of the 2nd or 3rd option, please reach out to your Administrator if you want to create a new tag. They have a UI to maintain tags and group them:

How to assign a tag to a Fact Sheet

At the top of a Fact Sheet, you have the option to maintain tags. By clicking on Edit tags, a Pop-Up guides you through the available choices:

  • In case On-the-fly tagging is active, just type the name of your tag. If this tag is not known yet, you have the option to create a new one
  • Otherwise, you can choose from the list. The tags are grouped by tag group to guide you through the commonly used options, and show the colours which appear in the reporting

How to filter with tags

Both in the Inventory and in the Reporting, Tags can be used like all other fields to filter. You can use both the Filter facets and the Filter bar.

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Note

If the tag group is not visible in the Filter facet, you need to first go to Manage Filter at the bottom of Filter facet and select the tag groups to be shown.

The little Settings icon allows you to combine more than one element with an at least one, all or none operator:

You can further filter for more than one tag groups and combine the filters with an and operator. In the example below, all applications with SLA Bronze OR Gold AND with Exception in Product Catalogue are shown.

How to use tags in reporting

For many reports, tag groups can be used to create individual views. Views based on tags can be created for tags of the mode Single. Tags of the mode Multi cannot be shown in a report as a view.

Below, you can see both Application Landscape and Matrix with the colors defined in the Admin UI. You can save, share and export those individual reports as every other report in LeanIX.

How to delete tag groups

If you want to delete a tag group, that is related to a lot of Fact Sheets, there is a simple way to do that. You don't need to open every Fact Sheet and delete them one per one.

  • Go to the inventory and select the tag group you want to delete (use the left menu bar).
  • Make an export and download the Excel-File (use the right menu bar and click on the button Export).
  • Select all tags you want to remove in the Excel-File and delete them.
  • After you deleted all the tags, make an import (use the right menu bar and click on the button Import) and the tag group is removed from your LeanIX Pathfinder.

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Attention:

  • While importing data from Excel in LeanIX we recommend to always have "Test Run" checked to ensure that the import is going to run smoothly and no unexpected errors occur. Make sure you are familiar with our section Import & Export your Data.
  • Check the archived Fact Sheets (Trash Bin in the left menu bar) and get sure to delete the tag groups also there.

How to delete a tag

To delete a single tag, go to Administration, and under Tagging select your tag from the tag group. Select the Tag that needs to be deleted and click on Delete Tag .

Note: Deleting a tag this way will only succeed if there is no more Fact Sheet linked to the tag
If there is at least one Factsheet assigned to the deleted tag, then you will see Remove from Tag Group button, and the tag will automatically be assigned to the group Other tags.

You can only delete the tag from the Other tags section once no active Factsheet has the tag applied to it. This means that the tag that is to be deleted has been removed from all Factsheets or that all Factsheets with that tag have been archived.