1.0 What's New

1.1 What's New in Serena Dashboard

Custom Installation Locations
Case Sensitivity Option for User Names
Enhanced Logging
Apple iPad App
Quality Metrics for Development Manager

Custom Installation Locations

You can now install Serena Dashboard (and IBI WebFocus, the underlying reporting platform) to locations of your choosing. Previously, you had to install to the default location on your server.

Case Sensitivity Option for User Names

You can now choose whether or not to make user names case sensitive.

Enhanced Logging

Serena Dashboard now logs the following types of data:

Admin changes, which are changes to dashboard data
Access data, which is data on user access to metrics

Apple iPad App

You can now display your choice of metrics on the Apple iPad with the Serena Dashboard iPad app. Simple choose the packages in Serena Dashboard that you want to make available to iPad users and publish them. Anyone with an iPad and the Serena Dashboard app can then log into your server and display the published metrics.

Quality Metrics for Development Manager

Serena Dashboard now includes out-of-the-box metrics on quality data for Development Manager implementations using HP Quality Center / ALM. This includes metrics on numbers of Quality Center bugs associated with defects, bugs related to test sets, test set run status, and overall project defect test status.

2.0 Installation Notes

3.0 Known Issues

3.1 Metrics in SQL Server Data Source Do Not Display

When you connect a DVM package to a data source in SQL Server, the connection works and installs the files on disk, however the metrics do not display in Serena Dashboard.

To solve this issue:

In the c:\ibi\apps directory, in the subdirectory for the package, locate the .ACX files and open them in a text editor.
On each line, add ".dbo" between the table name and the database name. For example, if the database is named sample, the resulting lines (with .dbo. added) might look something like the following:

SEGNAME=USR_ALM_PROJECTS, TABLENAME=sample.dbo.USR_ALM_PROJECTS, CONNECTION=DVM_SBM_SQL, KEYS=1, $
SEGNAME=TS_USERS, TABLENAME=sample.dbo.TS_USERS, CONNECTION=DVM_SBM_SQL, KEYS=1, $
SEGNAME=TS_SELECTIONS, TABLENAME=sample.dbo.TS_SELECTIONS, CONNECTION=DVM_SBM_SQL, KEYS=1, $
SEGNAME=TS_STATES, TABLENAME=sample.dbo.TS_STATES, CONNECTION=DVM_SBM_SQL, KEYS=1, $

3.2 Project Iterations & Development Package Iterations Do Not Display Correctly

When you connect a DVM package to a data source in SQL Server, the Project Iterations metric and the Development Package Iterations metric drill-down do not display correctly.

To solve this issue:

From the c:\ibi\apps directory, in the subdirectory for the package, locate the dvm_4_0_1_project_data_count_[SUFFIX].mas file and open it in a text editor.
Change the text SEGSUF=SQLORA to SEGSUF=SQLMSS
For example, if you installed a dvm_4_0_1 package to a SQL Server instance where the database is named sample and gave the suffix DEV to the package, open all dvm_4_0_1_project_data_count_DEV.mas files from the c:\ibi\apps\dvm_4_0_1_DEV directory and change to the following line:

SEGMENT=USR_ALM_PROJECTS, SEGTYPE=S0, SEGSUF=SQLORA , PARENT=USR_DVM_BASELINE, CRJOINTYPE=INNER,

to

SEGMENT=USR_ALM_PROJECTS, SEGTYPE=S0, SEGSUF=SQLMSS , PARENT=USR_DVM_BASELINE, CRJOINTYPE=INNER,

3.3 Defects List on Serena Support Website

You can display a list of all known defects that Serena is tracking for Serena Dashboard from the Serena Support Website. Follow this URL: http://knowledgebase.serena.com/InfoCenter/index?page=content&cat=DASHBOARD&channel=DEFECTS

3.4 WebFOCUS Web Console Not Supported in Firefox 11

The WebFOCUS Web Console is not currently supported in Firefox 11.

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