Perspectives

Structurizr supports the concept of “perspectives” from viewpoints and perspectives, where you want to look at a diagram with a view to answering a particular question. Perhaps you have a system landscape diagram showing software systems, and you’d like to see the ownership of each software system. Or perhaps you have a container diagram, and you’d like to see details of how each container satisifies the security requirements.

Perspectives can be added to any model element or relationship; for example:

workspace {

    model {
        a = softwareSystem "A" {
            perspectives {
                "Ownership" "Team 1"
            }
        }
        
        b = softwareSystem "B" {
            perspectives {
                "Ownership" "Team 2"
            }
        }
    }

    views {
        systemLandscape {
            include *
            autoLayout
        }
    }
    
}

This DSL defines an “Ownership” perspective for each software system, which can be viewed by following the instructions at Perspectives.

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