New Forms | QualiWare Center of Excellence

The new forms enhance the user experience as they are significantly faster than the old forms and enhance user experience via more user friendly interaction on feedback.

Aside from this, the new forms also enable users to provide information quicker and easier with the Quick Attach functionality, and via Prefilled Fields.

Quick Attach

Quick Attach, enables you to quickly and easily attach an Associated document to the object. When clicking on Quick Attach, a form for creating a new ExternalDocument is opened and you can select a document from your computer. The system will then attach it to a ExternalDocument, which will have the same name as the document, and link that to the webform’s object.

Importing Content from Word

The new forms enable users to import the content of a word document with the help of a button:

Simply click on to select a word document – this button is available in the extended text editor. Once chosen, click on “open”, and the content will be imported to the MultiLine field:

Notification Messages

QualiWare X now provides feedback to the user in the upper right corner, for example in the form of a success message when the user clicks OK or Apply using the new form.

Publisher Settings

The new forms can be enabled from the HTML publisher.

HTML publisher > Web Settings> Dialog layout settings:

Dialog layout settings provide you with three different options:

Always: Only use the new forms
If template specific: The new forms will be used only for templates that have dialog layouts set
Never: Never use the new forms

After the desired setting has been chosen, it is published by saving the settings and pressing “Publish”.

HTML Dialog Layout

As with the old forms, the new forms are edited using the HTMLDialogLayout template in QLM. Once the layout for a given HTMLDialogLayout has been generated, HTML code will appear in the “Client Form” tab which means that the form is ready for use.

Enhancing the User Experience

The forms add the ability to insert an initial value in the fields, ensuring it is filled out automatically, making easier for the user to fill out the form.

Additionally, dependencies can be added for the links available to a diagram. You can for example ensure that the link to a responsible only can be inserted when the short description isn’t empty.

API Architecture Metamodel

An Application Programming Interface (API) is a construct that enables communication between systems. Integration between systems in complex environments continues to be a business priority to support automation activities. An API can be purpose-built for a bespoke integration (typical of legacy systems), or alternatively a standard connector can be developed between industry standard systems such as ERP’s and Service Management platforms. Managing these integrations becomes a complex operational task as updates and new releases to the integrated systems (and enabling technologies), can lead to intensive release management and testing activities. Security is also of utmost concern when managing integrations as the API provides a potential entry-point from either system integration direction – the API has become a preferred target for malicious attacks on systems and networks.

Clustering

Clustering provides users with a new way of interacting with content in their repository. It provides an enhanced analysis capability directly from the 3D Visualizer by logically grouping objects based on their relationships, concepts, and definitions. Filters can be applied to the clusters through the table-based view using existing functionality to focus analysis efforts (for example only clustering objects that are related to a risk with a high impact). The number of clusters can also be defined by the user to provide a broader or more concise result.

Repository Compare

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.