Polarion offers the possibility to create your own widgets that you can add in any LiveReport pages of your project. They enable you to report or show exactly the information which is needed in your project. In this post I will explain the basics of velocity widget development and an example of how you couldContinue reading “How to create your own Velocity Widget”
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Polarion Advent Calendar
Siemens offers a 24-Door Polarion advent calendar with a lot of neat extensions, meet the experts and others. Although most things are really held in the context of Christmas, the technical stuff and free consultings are really interesting. So don’t miss it and take a look into it! You can find the Playlist here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ya72_UhvQXI&list=PLYGbB3CefExRirfCV-U1zOw8LX1mU0g0hContinue reading “Polarion Advent Calendar”
Advanced: The Work Item Pre-Save Hook – checking Work Items before saving
Topic: Checking, if the entered data is correct, before saving a Work Item in Polarion – this is made possible by a small extension on the extension portal.
Maximize Reuse / Minimize Maintenance in Software Development
Reusing software snippets from previous projects or platforms can be simple and efficient – You will be faster, as if you would have to write each line by your own. This is obvious to everyone. But what’s far less obvious is: Not only the initial creation, but also the maintenance could be way more efficientContinue reading “Maximize Reuse / Minimize Maintenance in Software Development”
Basics: Polarion Templates
You might want to modify existing project templates or even create a complete new one, to instantiate new projects based on your own templates – adapted to your specific processes. Here I will explain the absolute basics about the structure of project templates. To understand project templates, lets take a look at the project structureContinue reading “Basics: Polarion Templates”
Advanced: Create your individual workflow condition with Javascript
While configuring workflows in Polarion, we may want to have certain conditions fulfilled, before a work item or document can go into the next status. As long as we just want to configure, that some fields must be filled or a user must have a certain role, it’s easy. Complex conditions on the other handContinue reading “Advanced: Create your individual workflow condition with Javascript”
Use Case: How to work with baselined content to create a new variant
There might be thousands of reasons, why you want to continue working on old versions of your documents like Requirement-, Test- or Product Specifications. You maybe want to create another variant of your software – but not based on your latest version, but maybe on your version 1.0. Now you might be already at versionContinue reading “Use Case: How to work with baselined content to create a new variant”
Use Case: A Customer Requirement changes – Impact analysis and staying consistent
It’s rare, that a whole software project gets finished and the customer didn’t change any of his previous requirements. But now we already have developed code, designed hardware and wrote tests – which have to be changed now? How much will it cost? In this post I will show you how to answer this easilyContinue reading “Use Case: A Customer Requirement changes – Impact analysis and staying consistent”
Rendering vs Open API
When to use Rendering and when to use the Open API of Polarion – A question often asked. Which I’m trying to make a little bit clearer. This post is based upon my experience with the APIs. I’m aware of the fact, that some things I’m explaining may not be perfect. Maybe there are waysContinue reading “Rendering vs Open API”
Change the Polarion help (e.g. add your custom documentation) – Before 22R2
If your company customized Polarion in a special way and users should know about it – where would be a better place for documentation, if not the Polarion help. In this articel I’ll show, how you can adapt the Polarion help before 22R2. You can find the whole content of the Polarion help in theContinue reading “Change the Polarion help (e.g. add your custom documentation) – Before 22R2”
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