Navigation and Search¶
The authenticated OpenEA Community shell organizes work into three main areas.
Workspace¶
- Dashboard — repository summary and current architecture signals
- Explore — search, filter, browse, create, and open architecture objects
- Portfolio — Application Portfolio, Technology Portfolio, and Capability Map
- Roadmaps — derived architecture timelines
Governance¶
- Decisions — Architecture Decision workspace
- Reviews — overdue review workspace
- Findings — current architecture findings and evidence
- Analytics — Repository Health and persisted risk metrics
Management¶
Management options are shown according to role:
- Import — Architect and Architecture Administrator
- Finding Rules — Architecture Administrator
- Users — Platform Administrator
- Service Accounts — Platform Administrator
- API Tokens — Platform Administrator
- Background Processing — Platform Administrator
Every signed-in user can manage their own Personal Access Tokens from the sidebar footer.
Global search¶
The top bar contains a global architecture search field. Submitting a search opens Explore with the query applied. Global search uses the normal repository scope, so archived records are excluded by default. On the Explore results page, change Record status to Archived or All records when historical records are required.
OpenEA uses PostgreSQL full-text search and pg_trgm fuzzy matching in production. No external search engine is required.
Explore filters¶
Explore supports filters for:
- Search text
- Object type
- Record status / repository scope
- Lifecycle
- Criticality
- Governance status
- Owner
- Tag
- Review status
Results can be sorted and paginated. When a text query is supplied, relevance becomes the effective default sort.
Aliases and tags¶
Aliases and tags participate in architecture discovery. They are useful when a system is known by several names or when teams use common classification labels across object types.
Current and archived records¶
The Record status selector combines normal status filtering with archival discovery:
| Choice | Result |
|---|---|
| All current records | Draft, Active, and Inactive records; archived records are excluded. |
| Draft | Current Draft records only. |
| Active | Current Active records only. |
| Inactive | Current Inactive records only. |
| Archived | Archived records only. |
| All records | Current and archived records together. |
Archived rows use the same theme-controlled table background as current rows in both light and dark mode. OpenEA uses the red Archived badge, the Archived Record Status, and the archived date to communicate historical state rather than replacing the row background. Opening an archived record shows the retained historical record and, for authorized users, a Restore action.