Bowtie Designer is available as a free download from Microsoft Marketplace. Version 1.1 is currently undergoing Microsoft certification and will be available very soon.
New features included in public release version 1.1.x:
- “Search” function in sidebar
- Ability to duplicate (make clones of) controls and escalation controls (as an alternative to using multiple instances of a control)
- Linear control rating alternative to logarithmic rating
Improvements and bugfixes in Version 1.1.x:
- Improved Accessibility and published Declaration of Conformance (VPAT)
- Side Panel Title text field is now multiline
- Improved visual cues indicating overflow text
- Improved visual cues leading to hidden diagram elements
- Simplified Excel output report
- SharePoint framework version increased to v1.21
- Escalation controls in side panel can be re-arranged with drag-and-drop
- Fixed bug in duplicate title checking
- Fixed bug when editing Escalation Control Role/Type
- Fixed bug with inverted ordering of Escalation Controls
Features continued from the initial public release version 1.0:
- Supported platform
- SharePoint Online (web part pages)
- Data interactions:
- Unlimited new blank Bowtie diagrams (lists)
- Export data as CSV
- Create Bowtie diagram from exported CSV
- Read/Edit permission determined from user permission on selected diagram (list)
- Export report as Excel file
- Diagram entity limits:
- free version: 20 diagram elements maximum
- paid version: 5,000 diagram elements maximum
- Supported Diagram Elements:
- Hazard, Top Event, Trigger (Cause), Outcome (Effect), Control, Escalation, Escalation Control
- Control Type classification
- Viewer Controls:
- Zoom
- Highlight selected item
- Expand/collapse diagram elements
- Export screenshot as vector diagram
- Diagram Editing
- Edit title, description, external link (URL)
- Add/remove child elements
- Elements can appear multiple times
- Sort elements by drag-drop (in Side Panel)
- Colour coding
- Score by Frequency (triggers); Effectiveness (controls); Severity (outcomes)
- Supported languages:
- English (GB), English (US), French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian