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Bug Fixes (8.2)
Bug Fixes (8.2)
Since January 2020, Basis Technologies support team have introduced a new Cumulative Patching process for delivering patch fixes to customers. This means that since the start of 2020, when a new bug was fixed for a customer using ActiveControl 8.2 – an interim patch…
(JIRA) Actionable WebUI URL in JIRA custom field
Integration Enhancements » (JIRA) Actionable WebUI URL in JIRA custom field
As part of the original ActiveControl / JIRA integration build back in 2017, a custom user exit solution was delivered to enable a customer to automatically populate a Web UI URL into a custom field on the JIRA ticket. ActiveControl 8.2 adds this functionality into…
New Backout event
Other Enhancements (8.2) » New Backout event
Prior to ActiveControl 8.2, there was no indication of Backout being performed on the [Transport Status and History] tab on a Transport Form. Following feedback from customers, a new event has been added to highlight when Backout has been performed. …
Removal of Pending Approval Queue
Other Product Changes » Removal of Pending Approval Queue
Older releases of ActiveControl included a ‘Pending Approval’ capability to enable transports to be approved before a particular target (normally Development). This legacy functionality has not been used at new ActiveControl implementations for several…
Enhanced Test Results Transport Selection
ActiveControl (8.2) » Web UI Enhancements » Enhanced Test Results Transport Selection
ActiveControl 8.2 provides an improved test results entry process to make the transport selection more transparent to the user. During Test Queue sign-off, before clicking on ‘Save and Approve Testing’ it is now possible to review and select the…
Enhanced ‘Transport & Task Activity / Audit’ report
Other Enhancements (8.2) » Enhanced ‘Transport & Task Activity / Audit’ report
The ‘Transport & Task Activity / Audit’ report has been enhanced as part of ActiveControl 8.2, to indicate any Transport Form deletions. This was requested by a couple of customers earlier in 2019, to ensure that physical deletions are adequately visible…
Prevent auto-population of Transport Form fields
Other Enhancements (8.2) » Prevent auto-population of Transport Form fields
ActiveControl has historically always pre-populated the Type and Group fields (and Path, where only one Path exists with a valid source system reflective of the Transport) on a Transport Form in the SAPGUI, based on an individual users previous field selection. Some…
Transport of Copies creation
ActiveControl (8.2) » Web UI Enhancements » Transport of Copies creation
Prior to ActiveControl 8.2, it was only possible to create Transport of Copies (TOCs) within the Windows GUI, or automatically via User Exit solution. Since many ActiveControl users do not want to deploy the Windows GUI to their Development and Functional teams,…
Support for Customising entries
ShiftLeft Analysers (8.2) » Enhanced Test Impact Radar (0043) » Support for Customising entries
ActiveControl 8.2 introduces the ability to report on customising transports as part of ‘Top Level Object’ reporting as part of Test Impact Radar (0043), to enable a complete view of all functions impacted by a release that contains both customising and…
Enhanced Test Impact Radar (0043)
ShiftLeft Analysers (8.2) » Enhanced Test Impact Radar (0043)
Test Impact Radar (0043) analyser has been enhanced in various ways as part of ActiveControl 8.2. 1. Support added for Customising entries 2. Test Script gap analysis functionality added 3. Enhanced to report against actual Production Usage Statistics The rest of…
Auto-add Business Task to Transport Form
Integration Enhancements » Auto-add Business Task to Transport Form
When Basis Technologies built the ActiveControl/JIRA integration back in 2017, a custom-enhancement was built for a customer at the time, whereby if the Developer added a Business Task [Reference] at the start of the Transport Description in the SAPGUI, when they…
SPRO configuration menu for ActiveControl
ActiveControl (8.2) » SPRO configuration menu for ActiveControl
Although most core ActiveControl configuration is done within the Windows GUI, there is some SAPGUI backend table configuration required for some of the advanced / peripheral functionalities available within the product. Following feedback from existing customers, a…
Enmasse Custom Field updates – Utility report
Other Enhancements (8.2) » Enmasse Custom Field updates – Utility report
Back in ActiveControl 7.0, utility program /n/BTI/TE_MASSUPD_FLDS was added to help customers to mass updates to custom fields on Business Task or Transport Forms. This program was useful when an ActiveControl user wanted to update many Business Tasks or Transport…
(JIRA) User mapping based on email address
Integration Enhancements » (JIRA) User mapping based on email address
As part of an ActiveControl integration, a Tester has to be assigned to the Business Task being automatically created. ActiveControl integrations traditionally rely on the username on the ITSM system matching that of the SAP username. Based on this, a user field in…
DevAnalytics (via PowerBI)
ActiveControl (8.2) » Web UI Enhancements » DevAnalytics (via PowerBI)
DevAnalytics was added to ActiveControl back in 2017, to provide a more graphical way of interrogating and presenting data held within ActiveControl, via a series of 30+ metric calculations covering topics such as Cycle Times, Rework and Approval Times. In previous…