Documentation

User Functionality

Following sections describe basic functionality of a user on the website. This include many common functionalities that most website implement. The navigation bar in the top of your screen allows you to navigate on the website. Please note that on small devices the navigation bar will collapse into a small menu icon.

Register user

Access by: Go to Register user

How to:

1. Enter your email and a desired password of minimum 8 characters
2. Click 'Register'
3. If successful, your user is now created and you have access to the full website

Note: If any error occurs, a pop-up message will inform you of why your request was not successful.

Log in

Access by: Go to Login

How to:

1. Enter your email and password
2. Click 'Login'
3. If successful, you are now logged in and will be transfered to your 'My Projects' page.

Note: If any error occurs, a pop-up message will inform you of why your request was not successful.

Log out

Only available if you are logged in.

How to:

1. Click 'Logout' in the top-right corner in the navigation bar
2. If successful, you are now logged out and will be transfered to the 'Welcome' page where you can log in.

Forgot password

Access by: Go to Forgot Password

1. Enter your email
2. Click 'Reset password'
3. If the entered email is valid, you will be transfered to the login screen and an email with a reset link will be sent to your email if it exist. Please remember to check your spam folder if the email is not in your inbox.
4. Click the reset link, which will transfer you to the website. If the email is in your spam folder, the link is not clickable. To solve this, copy the link to the url in your browser or right click the email and mark it as not spam, which will transfer the email to your inbox from where the link is now clickable.
5. Enter a new password and confirm it by entering it again
6. Click 'Change password
7. If successful, you are transfered to the 'Welcome' page from where you can login with your email and new password.

Change password

Only available if you are logged in.

How to:

1. Click 'My Profile' in the top of your screen in the navigation bar
2. Enter a new password and confirm it by entering it again
3. Click 'Change password' to submit the change.
4. If successful, a pop-up message will confirm the password has been changed.

Tool Functionality

All following functionality is only available if you are logged in.

Prerequisites

Before applying this website as a tool for helping to identify business opportunities, you must identify and specify your business ecosystem. A publication (Ma, Christensen, & Jørgensen, 2021) on how to do this explains the field of business ecosystem architecture development.

Once you have identified and specified your business ecosystem the Ecosystem Map Generator can help you visualize and document it, from which you will be able to generate an excel file will all details necessary to begin with identifying business opportunities within this business ecosystem.

Add project

From the 'My Projects' page you are able to create new projects and find all your projects.

The idea is that a project can be generated for each different ecosystem for which you want to idenfify business opportunities.

How to:

1. Click '+ Add new project'.
2. In the pop-up box, enter a name and description for your project.
3. Click 'Save' to submit.
4. If successful, the pop-up box will close and your project is added to the list of your projects.
5. From this point, you can open the project by clicking 'Go to project' on the project you wish to open.

Delete project

How to:

1. From the 'My Project' page, click the little trash can on the project you wish to delete.
2. In the pop-up box click 'Delete project' if you are sure you want to delete the selected project.
3. The project is now deleted and is not visible from your 'My Project' page anymore.

Project Workflow

Once you have created a project and opened it, you will access the 'Project' page. From here, you will find five blue bars that you can unfold or fold. Within each bar lies a guideline to the different steps that follow the CSTEP driven business opportunity identification method LINK!!!

Following sections will describe the functionality included in each step:

• PRE-STEP

Add ecosystem element

How to:

1. Click 'Add row' in the right side of your screen
2. Fill in ecosystem element details
3. Click the 'check mark' icon to submit the entered ecosystem element details
4. An ecosystem element has now been added to the list of ecosystem elements related to this project

Edit ecosystem element

How to:

1. Click the 'pencil icon' in the right side of your screen.
2. Edit the content you wish to change.
3. Click the 'check mark' icon to submit your changes.

Delete ecosystem element

How to:

1. Click the 'trash can' icon in the right side of your screen.
2. The selected ecosystem element is now deleted.

Save ecosystem

How to:

1. Ensure your ecosystem is complete and that no ecosystem element is in edit mode (should display the 'pencil icon')
2. Click the 'Save' button in the middle of your screen.
3. Your details from PRE-STEP is now saved and the input for the next table in STEP 1 is generated.
• STEP 1

Once the PRE-STEP is completed and you have saved your ecosystem, you can proceed with STEP 1.
Based on your ecosystem, the table in STEP 1 is preconfigured to contain your ecossytem elements which are displayed with their given 'Agent name'.

Enter STEP 1 details

How to:

1. Click the 'Edit' button in the row you want to edit.
2. Fill in the condition details. Note that all conditions must begin with a dash "-" as it is used for recognition and separation.
   Example:
   
   • - Condition one..
   • - Condition two etc.
3. When done editing, click the 'Done' button

Save STEP 1 details

How to:

1. Ensure your table is complete and that no row is in edit mode (should display 'Edit' button).
2. Click the 'Save' button.
3. Your details from STEP 1 are now saved and the input for the next table in STEP 2 is generated.
• STEP 2

Once STEP 1 is completed and you have saved your ecosystem condition details, you can proceed with STEP 2.
Based on previous step, the table in STEP 2 is preconfigured to contain all conditions entered in previous.
These are displayed in the 'Current ecosystem condition' column.

Enter STEP 2 details

How to:

1. Click the 'Edit' button in the row you want to edit.
2. Fill in the details.
3. When done editing, click the 'Done' button

Save STEP 2 details

How to:

1. Ensure your table is complete and that no row is in edit mode (should display 'Edit' button).
2. Click the 'Save' button.
3. Your details from STEP 2 are now saved and the input for the next table in STEP 3 is generated.
• STEP 3

Once STEP 2 is completed and you have saved your ecosystem condition details, you can proceed with STEP 3.
Based on previous step, the table in STEP 3 is preconfigured to contain all identified solutions for each ecosystem condition from previous table.
These are displayed in the 'Identified solutions' column.

Enter STEP 3 details

How to:

1. Click the 'Edit' button in the row you want to edit.
2. Fill in the details. Note that scores must be between 1-3.
3. When done editing, click the 'Done' button

Save STEP 3 details

How to:

1. Ensure your table is complete and that no row is in edit mode (should display 'Edit' button).
2. Click the 'Save' button.
3. Your details from STEP 3 are now saved and the input for STEP 4 is generated.
• STEP 4

The CSTEP Business Opportunity Identifier process is coming to an end.
In this step you get the opportunity to generate an excel file containing a summary of all previous tables.

Generate Excel output file

How to:

1. Ensure all previous steps have been completed.
2. Click the 'Download Results' button.
3. An Excel file is generated and automatically downloaded through your browser.
4. The Excel file can be opened by clicking the file in the bottom-left corner of your browser or by locating the file, likely to be placed in the 'Downloads' folder, on your computer.