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The Repository Compare functionality has the potential to aid all types of users. Quality Managers can for example promote the right subsets of their work from a project repository to the base configuration – thus ensuring that all of the Quality Team’s work has been considered. Project Managers on the other hand can use this feature to re-use information from other projects in their project repository, thus decreasing the need for re-work.

The Repository Compare feature enables you to open a repository explorer for two different repositories at the same time, with a column in the middle to show whether the content is alike or not. Thus differences between different configurations and/or repositories can easily be analyzed – for example between a private workspace and its base or different project repositories on the same QualiWare Integration Server.

For convenience the compare functionality is available from the Repository Explorer on the web front-end.

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Using the Repository Compare Feature

When on the web front-end click on the Repository Explorer button in the upper right corner. This makes the Repository Compare button available.

Once clicked the Repository Compare feature will open and enable you to select two different repositories and/or configurations from the drop-down menus.

As soon as both repositories have loaded the column in the center will display any differences between the two repositories.

3 different types of signs are used to display the difference between the two repositories:

•  The repository on the right contains an object that is not present in the location on the left
•  The repository on the left contains an object that is not present in the location on the right
•  Both repositories contain the same object, but the properties of the object differ across the two locations
•  Both repositories contain the same object and the properties of the object are consistent across the two locations

For a better overview it is possible to toggle the desired comparison options to be shown via the toolbar.

The first option shows all objects. The second option shows only objects that are alike across the two repositories. The third option shows only the objects that are different across the two repositories.

If there is a difference in the properties of an object across the two locations the property difference can be analyzed by clicking on the drop-down arrow to display the difference.

The contents can then be copied either from the left location to the right or vice versa.

Added in QualiWare 10.1

Use tasks to schedule replication between repositories
Use the new “shopping cart” functionality to create lists of repository objects. If no lists exist, click in the top of the Repository Compare and click Create.
To add repository objects to a list, select one or more objects, right click on the object. Under the “Add to list” available lists will be shown. Select the list where objects should be added.

A new task scheduler enables a timer-based trigger to copy a list of objects from one repository to another. To access the task scheduler, press the “Tasks” button at the top of the object list
This will open the task schedule overview:

A Task contains:

• Trigger: The trigger is the timer triggering the task. This can be defined as one time, minute, hour, day, week, month and year.
• Action: The action contains the sources, destinations and lists. The Source and destination are lists of repositories with configuration/private workspace, role and language specified. The list is a selection of lists to be copied.

When adding a new source or destination it is possible to add a new QEF instance. This new feature provides the ability to copy lists between QualiWare installations.

Folders and hashtags, make it easier for users to find the content they are looking for. Folders and hashtags, enable you to find content in the same way as you do on social media. You can organize content according to many different views together with people you don’t know.

• Hashtags are markers that can be attached to any object regardless if it is frozen. They can be added to an object from either QLM or the web.
• Folders offer access to specific groupings of objects, making objects easily accessible to the relevant stakeholders. The groupings can be based on dynamic search criteria, for example showing objects the viewer has created, or pointing to a set of objects that satisfy the criteria specified for that folder.

By using hashtags and folders, you can structure and organize content in QualiWare targeting specific users or user groups.

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Hashtags

You can edit the hashtags for objects in both QLM and on the web. The hashtags can be added and removed from objects regardless if the objects are approved or in development.

From the web, you edit the hashtags for a diagram by clicking the “Hashtags” icon in the diagram’s toolbar:

When clicking the hashtags icon, a dialog will appear where you can add new hashtags by typing them and choosing submit. You can also remove hashtags. When you hover your curser over the hashtags an X will appear. If you click on the X, that hashtag will be removed from the diagram. To save the changes, close the dialog by clicking “Submit”:

In QLM, hashtags are added and removed from the objects property dialog in the “Tags” tab

When pressing on ‘Add Tag’ you get to ad either an existing tag or create a new tag:

There will be an organization of your content into the groups where it belongs – just because you add the hashtags. Once you have added hashtags to objects in QualiWare, they can easily be linked to corresponding folders. This means that stakeholder specific views now can become easily available.

Folders

Folders offer access to specific groupings of objects, making objects easily accessible to the relevant stakeholders. The template name for folders in QualiWare is “RepositoryFolder”.

The folders all point to a logical set of objects in the repository, meaning a folder points to a set of objects that satisfy the criteria specified for that folder. As such, an object may be present in multiple folders, but only exist as a single object in the repository.

By creating standard setup structures in the folders, you can replicate the structure of the business that people work. This means, that if people are familiar with the organizational structure, they can easily find the relevant content under their department. If they are more familiar with the product structure, they can find the same content under the product names, partner names and so on.

On the web, you can find the folders in the Repository Explorer menu, which can be navigated to via the new tool bar:

Here you can create new folders and edit existing ones by using the tool menu. This is also where you can browse selected template types for easy access.

In QLM, the folders can be accessed and edited in the repository explorer by clicking on the folders icon in the repository views (see picture below). This will prompt a list of folders to pop up in the repository explorer.

When you expand a folder by clicking on the plus on its left, content and sub-folders are shown. There may be several folders within the folders.

When right-clicking on a folder, you can choose to add content to it, add a new sub-folder or open the properties for the folder.

There are four tabs in the properties of the folders you can edit:

• RepositoryFolder: here you can add a short description, include objects based on tags, exclude objects based on tags, and define the folder as a root folder – meaning the folder is present at the first level of the folder structure.
• Objects: Here, you can include specific objects or repository folders.
• Advanced: In this tab, you can include objects based on search conditions or relations.
• Visibility: In this tab, you can specify which persons and roles the folder should be visible to

For more details see the description of the Repository Folder template