You should know the following about working with the System Architect – Focal Point® integration:
▪Once you export from a profile, you can go to the Focal Point® website by logging in to the following URL:
<servername>:<portnumber>/fp/servlet/Login
▪The Views where the data has been exported to will show the data if the export succeeds.
▪You can check for the Rank attribute on the Focal Point® end. The Rank attribute will not have a value because it is only a placeholder when you export the first time. After applying Rank in Focal Point®, the attribute can be checked to see if values have been populated.
▪During the import operation, you can check the Application definition to see if the Rank property has been updated with the appropriate value from Focal Point®. This is true of any new property added in System Architect.
▪During login, if you enter the web service URL and Login credentials, and get a “Please check the URL” message, it indicates that the Workspace does not have the web service enabled.
▪If you do not have permission on Focal Point® Views (SA Criteria and SA Data), then the criteria and data views populated in the Workspace selection dialog will be empty.
Logging in
If while attempting to login, you get a “Please check the URL” message, the cause might one of the following:
▪The URL format is incorrect. The correct format is
<server name>:<portnumber>/fp/services/FocalPoint
▪The URL is not entered in the correct case, as shown above. The URL is case‑sensitive.
▪The Tomcat server hosting Focal Point® is not running. Start the service.
▪A firewall is restricting access to the particular URL. Configure the firewall to allow access to the Focal Point® WebService.
Exporting data
If some attributes are not exported successfully to Focal Point®, the cause may one of the following:
▪Attributes are not mapped in the data/criteria mapping screen. Edit the appropriate Focal Point® profile and map the attributes.
▪If the attributes are mapped and still not getting values then you need to check the access type of the attribute in Focal Point® and make sure all the attributes are editable. The following steps will help:
▪Login to Focal Point® website.
▪Click on Configure tab; click on Attribute link.
▪Click on the Module that contains the attributes.
▪On the corresponding attributes, click on set access (to the right, on the same row).
▪If it is not editable, then select editable and click on update Views.
▪When exporting existing profile from System Architect to Focal Point® using menu option: Send data from a previously saved Focal Point Profile > Export (Focal Point Profile "Application Portfolio Management". If you get an error such as:
"Conversion from String" " to type 'Double' is not valid. Please check the mapping"
it is an indication that you are not using the latest Focal Point® template file named Application Portfolio Management_SAFP.fpz that is provided with System Architect.
▪While exporting if duplicate (Application/Criteria) entries are created in Focal Point®, because the GUID attribute in Focal Point® is read-only. To resolve this problem, make the GUID editable in Focal Point®.