Search and Discovery

Once your map has content, discovery is where you spend most of your time. Legend is built to get you from a question to an answer in a few steps. This page covers searching, filtering, following relationships, and using the map for impact analysis.

Running a search

1. Open search from the main navigation.
2. Type part of a name; a few characters is usually enough.
3. Scan the results, which include matching Agents and Landmarks.
4. Select a result to open the entity and see its relationships.

Search matches on names and partial names, so you can find a service, a person, or a process without knowing where it was filed or its exact title.

Filtering results

When a search returns a lot of results, narrow it down:

• Filter by type to see only services, only processes, or only documents.
• Filter by owner to see everything a person or team is responsible for.
• Combine a search term with a filter, for example "billing" limited to services.

Following relationships

Every entity shows how it connects to the rest of the map. From a service you can move to its owner, and from a process you can move to the systems it depends on. Following these links is how you learn the shape of your organization, one hop at a time.

1. Open any entity from a search result.
2. Review its relationships: its owner, what it depends on, and what depends on it.
3. Select a related entity to move to it and continue exploring.

Impact analysis

Because relationships are recorded directly, you can see what a change would touch before you make it. This turns guesswork into an informed decision.

1. Open the service or process you are planning to change.
2. Look at everything that depends on it.
3. Note the owners of those dependents; those are the people to notify.
4. Use that list to plan the change and communicate it before you act.

Screenshot: the dependents panel for a database service, showing the three processes that would be affected by a change.