Managing Release Control Reports

Reports help keep release management stakeholders informed of status, history, and other release information. Serena Release Control provides a default set of reports and you can configure these as needed to support your organization.

Some of the Serena Business Manager reports are used to populate the Serena Release Control user interface views. You can configure those as documented in Configuring the User Interface.

In addition to reports used for the UI views, you can configure general reports to provide the information you need for your organization’s release control. The general reports configured by default for Serena Release Control are shown in the following table.

Objects	Reports	Description
Release Trains	Dashboard	A multi-view report for the Dashboard page. See Configuring the Serena Release Control Dashboard.
	Inactive RTrains	All inactive release trains.
	Inactive Release Trains	All release trains that are in inactive status.
	Release train by type	Release trains by type.
	Release Trains in Gantt	Release trains in a Gantt-style format, used for the Calendars page. See Configuring the Calendars.
	Train All	All release trains.
	train Assigned To Current User	All release trains assigned to the current user, used for the My Inbox page. See Configuring the Inbox.
Application Releases	Application releases by application and type	Application releases by application and type.
	Application All	All application releases.
	application Assigned To Current User	Application releases assigned to the current user, used for the My Inbox page. See Configuring the Inbox.
	Application Releases In Release Train	Application releases in the selected release train.
	Application Releases Unassigned	Application releases that are not yet assigned to release trains.
	Inactive Application Releases	Application releases that are in inactive status.
Release Packages	Active Release Packages (JSON)	All release packages that are in active status used for the Activity page. See Configuring the Activity Page.
	Inactive Release Packages	All release packages that are in inactive status.
	Package All	All release packages.
	package Assigned To Current User	Release packages assigned to the current user, used for the My Inbox page. See Configuring the Inbox.
	Release Packages in Application Release	Release packages in the selected application release.
	Release packages list by owner	Release packages list by owner.
	Unassigned Release Packages	Release packages that are not yet assigned to application releases.
Deployment Tasks	all DT	All deployment tasks.
	Assigned Tasks	Deployment tasks assigned to the selected release package stage.
	Deployment task I own	Deployment tasks owned by the current user.
	task All	All deployment tasks.
	task Assigned To Current User	Deployment tasks assigned the current user, used for the My Inbox page. See Configuring the Inbox.
	Template Tasks	Tasks in the selected deployment process template.
Environment	Environment in Release Packages	All environments in the selected release package.
	Environments All	All environments.
	Environments owned by current user	Environments owned by the current user.
	Environments Commissioned	All environments in the commissioned state.
	Inactive Environments	All inactive environments.
Others	All Release Type Stages	All stages sorted by release type and sequence.
	All Stages	All stages defined in Serena Release Control.
	Assigned Business Change Requests	Business change requests associated with the selected application release.
	Assigned Deployment Units	Deployment units associated with the selected release package.
	Assigned Development Change Requests	Development change requests associated with the selected release package.
	Assigned Requests for Change	Requests for change associated with the selected release train.
	DCR Projects Assigned to a Release Package	Development change requests associated with the selected release package.
	Dimensions CM Projects Assigned to a Release Package	Dimensions CM projects associated with the selected release package.
	Release Train Scope Change	All RFCs added to or removed from the selected release train since the release train was approved.
	Stages in Release Type	All stages for the selected release type.
	ZMF Projects Assigned to a Release Package	ZMF projects, or applications, associated with the selected release package.

What Can You Change in Release Manager?

You can manage reports in the Reports tab of Serena Release Manager, but for full feature access, it is recommended that you make configuration changes using native SBM.

What Can You Change in SBM?

You can change the following report information:

Add reports
Modify reports that you created
Manage access to reports

What is the Impact?

If you add a report, you must give users access to the report.
If you add reports, the new reports will appear in the Serena Release Control Reports page for those users with access to them.
If you rename a report that is used for the UI, the UI element affected may no longer work. You must save the report in place using the same report reference name to prevent this.

How Do You Change It?

You can manage reports from the Serena Release Control standard SBM user interface according to the SBM documentation.

NOTE End users with the proper privileges can add reports from the Reports view in the Serena Release Control UI shell by editing a report and using the Save As option to save it to another report name. However, only Serena Release Manager administrators should be given the privileges to modify reports provided with Serena Release Control.

Documentation References

Complete documentation on configuring SBM reports is in the Serena Business Manager User’s Guide in "Working with Reports".