Inventory

The Inventory is the heart of Turbo EA. Here all cards (components) of the enterprise architecture are listed: applications, processes, business capabilities, organizations, providers, interfaces, and more.

Inventory Screen Structure

Left Filter Panel

The left sidebar panel allows you to filter cards by different criteria:

• Search — Free text search across card names
• Types — Filter by one or more card types: Objective, Platform, Initiative, Organization, Business Capability, Business Context, Business Process, Application, Interface, Data Object, IT Component, Tech Category, Provider, System
• Subtypes — When a type is selected, filter further by subtype (e.g., Application → Business Application, Microservice, AI Agent, Deployment)
• Approval Status — Draft, Approved, Broken, or Rejected
• Lifecycle — Filter by lifecycle phase: Plan, Phase In, Active, Phase Out, End of Life
• Data Quality — Threshold-based filtering: Good (80%+), Medium (50–79%), Poor (below 50%)
• Tags — Filter by tags from any tag group
• Relations — Filter by related cards across relation types
• Custom attributes — Filter by values in custom fields (text search, select options)
• Show archived only — Toggle to view archived (soft-deleted) cards
• Clear all — Reset all active filters at once

An active filter count badge shows how many filters are currently applied.

Columns Tab

The Columns tab in the side panel lets you choose which additional columns to display in the grid. Available columns change dynamically based on the selected card types:

• Single type selected — All attribute fields defined for that type are available, plus relation columns and metadata columns
• Multiple types selected — Only fields that are common across all selected types are available
• No type selected — A hint message prompts you to select a card type first

Columns are grouped into three categories:

Category	Description
Metadata	Created, Modified, Created by, Modified by
Attributes	Custom fields defined in the metamodel (text, number, cost, date, select, etc.)
Relations	Related card types (e.g., Applications linked to a Business Capability)

Each category has a Select all checkbox to quickly toggle all columns in that group. A search field at the top lets you find specific columns by name. The badge on each section header shows how many columns from that group are currently visible.

When a card type is first selected, all attribute and relation columns are enabled by default. You can then uncheck columns you don't need. A Reset button at the bottom of the Columns tab restores the default column selection.

A change indicator dot appears on the Columns tab header when the column selection differs from the defaults. The same indicator appears on the Filters tab when any filters are active, making it easy to see at a glance which settings have been modified.

Your column selection, active filters, and sort order are automatically persisted in your browser. When you return to the inventory page, your previous configuration is restored. Saved views (bookmarks) also preserve the full column selection, so switching between views restores exactly the columns you had configured.

Main Table

The inventory uses an AG Grid data table with powerful features:

Column	Description
Type	Card type with color-coded icon
Name	Component name (click to open card detail)
Description	Brief description
Lifecycle	Current lifecycle state
Approval Status	Review status badge
Data Quality	Completeness percentage with visual ring
Relations	Relation counts with clickable popover showing related cards

Table features:

• Sorting — Click any column header to sort ascending/descending
• Inline editing — In grid edit mode, edit field values directly in the table
• Multi-select — Select multiple rows for bulk operations
• Hierarchy display — Parent/child relationships shown as breadcrumb paths
• Column configuration — Show, hide, and reorder columns

Toolbar

• Grid Edit — Toggle inline editing mode to edit multiple cards in the table
• Export — Download data as an Excel (.xlsx) file
• Import — Bulk upload data from Excel files
• + Create — Create a new card

How to Create a New Card

1. Click the + Create button (blue, top right corner)
2. In the dialog that appears:
3. Select the Type of card (Application, Process, Objective, etc.)
4. Enter the Name of the component
5. Optionally, add a Description
6. Optionally, click Suggest with AI to generate a description automatically (see AI Description Suggestions below)
7. Click CREATE

AI Description Suggestions

Turbo EA can use AI to generate a description for any card. This works on both the Create Card dialog and existing card detail pages.

How it works:

1. Enter a card name and select a type
2. Click the sparkle icon in the card header, or the Suggest with AI button in the Create Card dialog
3. The system performs a web search for the item name (using type-aware context — e.g., "SAP S/4HANA software application"), then sends the results to an LLM to generate a concise, factual description
4. A suggestion panel appears with:
5. Editable description — review and modify the text before applying
6. Confidence score — indicates how certain the AI is (High / Medium / Low)
7. Clickable source links — the web pages the description was derived from
8. Model name — which LLM generated the suggestion
9. Click Apply description to save, or Dismiss to discard

Key characteristics:

• Type-aware: The AI understands the card type context. An "Application" search adds "software application", a "Provider" search adds "technology vendor", etc.
• Privacy-first: When using Ollama, the LLM runs locally — your data never leaves your infrastructure. Commercial providers (OpenAI, Google Gemini, Anthropic Claude, etc.) are also supported
• Admin-controlled: AI suggestions must be enabled by an administrator in Settings > AI Suggestions. Admins choose which card types show the suggestion button, configure the LLM provider, and select the web search provider
• Permission-based: Only users with the ai.suggest permission can use this feature (enabled by default for Admin, BPM Admin, and Member roles)

Saved Views (Bookmarks)

You can save your current filter, column, and sort configuration as a named view for quick reuse.

Creating a Saved View

1. Configure the inventory with your desired filters, columns, and sorting
2. Click the bookmark icon in the filter panel
3. Enter a name for the view
4. Choose the visibility:
5. Private — Only you can see it
6. Shared — Visible to specific users (with optional edit permissions)
7. Public — Visible to all users

Using Saved Views

Saved views appear in the filter panel sidebar. Click any view to instantly apply its configuration. Views are organized into:

• My Views — Views you created
• Shared with Me — Views others shared with you
• Public Views — Views available to everyone

Excel Import

Click Import in the toolbar to bulk-create or update cards from an Excel file.

1. Select a file — Drag and drop an .xlsx file or click to browse
2. Choose the card type — Optionally restrict the import to a specific type
3. Validation — The system analyzes the file and shows a validation report:
4. Rows that will create new cards
5. Rows that will update existing cards (matched by name or ID)
6. Warnings and errors
7. Import — Click to proceed. A progress bar shows real-time status
8. Results — A summary shows how many cards were created, updated, or failed

Excel Export

Click Export to download the current inventory view as an Excel file:

• Multi-type export — Exports all visible cards with core columns (name, type, description, subtype, lifecycle, approval status)
• Single-type export — When filtered to one type, the export includes expanded custom attribute columns (one column per field)
• Lifecycle expansion — Separate columns for each lifecycle phase date (Plan, Phase In, Active, Phase Out, End of Life)
• Date-stamped filename — The file is named with the export date for easy organization