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06/11/2015 10:01:28 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
Hi Everyone - We’ll be starting in just a few minutes. Please hold questions until we announce the start. Thanks!
06/11/2015 10:03:32 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
Ready for questions!
06/11/2015 10:04:15 AM from Neal Florine to Everyone:
Have any of the CA folks had experience with connecting Clarity with SAP ECC and which CA tool did they use?
06/11/2015 10:05:34 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
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06/11/2015 10:06:11 AM from Nei to Everyone:
hello all.
06/11/2015 10:06:13 AM from Nei to Everyone:
I have a WEBI Document witch uses CA PPM Timesheets - Oracle universe. This WEBI Doc shows OBS unit (LEvel 6) as lable. I have changed a department name/description in all places in clarity (departments/ obs) but webi stills shows the older name.
06/11/2015 10:06:33 AM from Martink to Everyone:
Resource workload has hidden required filter Active. The default for that is checked (= Active)
Is that still in effect when I create a power filter for something else?
I see some behaviour which I do not undertand: When I have create the filter express and have clicked Save and Return I get a number of records.
When I click save again, I get a higher number of records as the inactive are also displayed.
When I click Filter it get again only the active records.
It is Clarity 13.3
06/11/2015 10:08:48 AM from Kathryn Ellis (CA) to Everyone:
@ Neal Florine: This is a question for our CA Services or Global Delivery team. They are not in the session at this time. You could contact the account team for further discussions. You could also explore our communities to see if any on premise customer has implemented this type of configuration.
06/11/2015 10:08:49 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei : please ensure you have run all the jobs : in the following order : Timeslicing, Datamart, Update Business Objects Report Tables and see if this works to display the data you want in the report.
06/11/2015 10:08:54 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
Hello everibody
06/11/2015 10:09:09 AM from Neal Florine to Everyone:
Okay. TY.
06/11/2015 10:10:07 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
Does a user logged consume server resources although he is not working on the app?
06/11/2015 10:10:45 AM from Nei to Everyone:
@Nika: I´ll do it. thanks.
06/11/2015 10:12:03 AM from Nick Darlington (CA) to Everyone:
@Gerardo: A minimal amount of memory until the session expires is consumed on the server, enough data to store basic things like the user's name, email, session ID, any unused 'tokens' (small strings), and some information about data they have entered into filter fields, and their global permissions. CPU resources won't be impacted.
06/11/2015 10:14:35 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
Ready for more questions!
06/11/2015 10:15:10 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
Is it possible to link the “% Complete” and “Stage” attributes?
06/11/2015 10:15:37 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Martink : this looks like a bug from what you are describing. I don't recall the same to have been reported in 13.3 and higher though. Can you raise a case so we at Support check this out? Thanks
06/11/2015 10:16:01 AM from Kathryn Ellis (CA) to Everyone:
@Gerardo: please elaborate more on what you want to do to link the “% Complete” and “Stage” attributes?
06/11/2015 10:17:36 AM from Martink to Everyone:
@Nika, thanks, I'll pass that to the user and see what he has to say about it. Based on a couple of tries it appears to happen on two environments.
06/11/2015 10:19:23 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
Bring on those questions!
06/11/2015 10:21:03 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
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06/11/2015 10:22:23 AM from Ramana Chinnapapannagari to Everyone:
Hello, Mutli currency is enabled and now I know little bit about how it works. I am looking for documentation on it. To understand it like what happens if PM changes the budget/billing currency code or resource rate
06/11/2015 10:23:46 AM from Martink to Everyone:
Say you can get the rights of the user by looking at them in administration and then through groups first looking at group memberships and then at the rights the groups have. Is there a simple way of establishing what rights a user has based on association to different OBS's? A queary would be even better. The challenge for me is if there are ten OBS's and then the three OBS modes.
06/11/2015 10:24:55 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
@Nika Thanks. Can we link the advance of the "Stage" status bar with the "% completed" attribute?
06/11/2015 10:24:57 AM from Martink to Everyone:
The other challenge is that unlike group OBS is hierarchical and you have to navigate to the correct unit.
06/11/2015 10:25:04 AM from Kathryn Ellis (CA) to Everyone:
@Ramana : we have configuration documentation, once multi-currency is enabled, you can activate different currency codes, and define exchange rates (both directions). You cannot change currency codes for existing projects with existing actual transactions
06/11/2015 10:25:54 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
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06/11/2015 10:27:11 AM from Martink to Everyone:
@Gerardo That sounds like you would rather display the % Complete as a progress bar instead of a number.
06/11/2015 10:27:12 AM from Ramana Chinnapapannagari to Everyone:
@Kathryn, thank you. I did find that, but looking for more docs
06/11/2015 10:29:02 AM from Kathryn Ellis (CA) to Everyone:
@Ramana : the only other 'doc' would be some KBs that may address specific use cases, flipboard, or community postings. Also, if you are an On Premise customer you can do a Web Live Chat for a quick question, or log a case if you want specific functionality behavior information
06/11/2015 10:30:40 AM from Ramana Chinnapapannagari to Everyone:
@Kathryn, Thank you. We are on On-Premise. and I will do
06/11/2015 10:31:39 AM from Kathryn Ellis (CA) to Everyone:
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06/11/2015 10:32:12 AM from Nei to Everyone:
@Nika: About Datamart.. Should I run Datamart Extration or Datamart Rollup.. .or both?
06/11/2015 10:32:55 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Martink, it looks like nobody has created any query like this just yet. This sounds also as a good idea to submit for our ideation list.
06/11/2015 10:33:42 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei, it's generally recommended to run both jobs: Extraction and Rollup
06/11/2015 10:33:57 AM from Nei to Everyone:
@nika: ok...
06/11/2015 10:34:09 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
@Ramana Thanks Ramana yes, but we would like to undesertand better how to do this two attributes work together
06/11/2015 10:34:57 AM from Gabe Izraelevitz to Everyone:
@Martink, I have not created a query yet that provides this information, but I can help you put something together.
06/11/2015 10:37:51 AM from Martink to Everyone:
@Gabe, Senthil posted this a part of his querz set on the community
06/11/2015 10:37:56 AM from Martink to Everyone:
-- Records fetch for Access to this Resource : OBS Unit
SELECT SRM.UNIQUE_NAME "Resource ID", SRM.FULL_NAME "Resource Name",G.GROUP_NAME "Access Right Name", G.DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION,T.NAME || ':' || U.NAME GRANTED_THROUGH_TYPE,A.INSTANCE_TYPE GRANTED_THROUGH,' ' GROUP_CODE,
(SELECT FULL_NAME FROM SRM_RESOURCES WHERE USER_ID =A.CREATED_BY) "Granted By",TO_CHAR(A.CREATED_DATE,'DD-Mon-YYYY') "Granted Date", 'Access to this Resource: OBS Unit' "Access Right Type" FROM CMN_SEC_GROUPS_V G, CMN_SEC_ASSGND_RIGHT A, PRJ_OBS_UNITS U, PRJ_OBS_TYPES T, CMN_LOOKUPS L , SRM_RESOURCES SRM WHERE SRM.USER_ID = A.INSTANCE_ID AND G.LANGUAGE_CODE='en' AND G.ID = A.RIGHT_ID AND L.LOOKUP_TYPE = 'OBS_UNIT_ASSOCIATION' AND A.PRINCIPAL_TYPE = L.LOOKUP_CODE
AND A.PRINCIPAL_ID = U.ID AND U.TYPE_ID = T.ID AND A.INSTANCE_ID = :CMN_ID AND A.INSTANCE_TYPE = 'INSTANCE'
06/11/2015 10:38:47 AM from Martink to Everyone:
Would that do all OBS modes and all three types of rights?
06/11/2015 10:39:56 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Gerardo : % Complete and Stage are different attributes which are not normally meant to relate together. Stage of a Project may be for example, Planning or Testing, or Development : and being in a stage doesn't always mean that the project is 35% Complete i.e. This said, if you want to customize the fields and make one update when the other one is updated to a specific value, then you may explore the possibility to create a custom process for it. Here is a similar thread on Progress attribute on the communities which may be helpful too: https://communities.ca.com/thread/241732054
06/11/2015 10:39:57 AM from Nei to Everyone:
@Nika: Hum... now the column with I have changed the name disapears from webi...
06/11/2015 10:40:22 AM from Terri Echegoyen to Everyone:
I am still having trouble setting up Clarity resources who require access because they are approvers but, have no availability. I am unable to set their availability to zero.
06/11/2015 10:41:53 AM from Nei to Everyone:
...positive: The jobs change something.. negative: I have no timesheet data in webi for resources in that OBS>
06/11/2015 10:42:28 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei : is this OBS included in the Datamart Settings?
06/11/2015 10:42:52 AM from Martink to Everyone:
@Terri Can you use a no workindays calendar or set them in acteve as resources on application side?
06/11/2015 10:43:10 AM from Nei to Everyone:
Yes, because it were displayed in WEBI before (with older name).
06/11/2015 10:43:26 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
@Nei Thank you for your answer
06/11/2015 10:43:50 AM from Gabe Izraelevitz to Everyone:
@Martink, I'll look at the query and let you know
06/11/2015 10:45:00 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei : are you saying that the timesheet data is no longer displayed in the report for these resources? If yes, was this a current or old data?
06/11/2015 10:45:11 AM from Martink to Everyone:
@Gabe thanks
06/11/2015 10:45:32 AM from Terri Echegoyen to Everyone:
Kathryn Ellis - I believe you addressed this issue and I wanted to ask you more but, I cannot ask you a question on CA Communities because you are not following me
06/11/2015 10:46:34 AM from Nei to Everyone:
Webi report were working fine, displaying 6 column (one per department).
06/11/2015 10:47:19 AM from Nei to Everyone:
I have change one name department in Clarity, but webi still shows 6 columns with same names before.
06/11/2015 10:47:39 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei : if you create a new WEBI report, does it show correctly?
06/11/2015 10:47:53 AM from Kathryn Ellis (CA) to Everyone:
@Terri : I found you
06/11/2015 10:48:14 AM from Terri Echegoyen to Everyone:
@yea!
06/11/2015 10:48:19 AM from Nei to Everyone:
Now,, after I run the jobs, ebi shows 5 columns, not displaying column for department that I change name,
06/11/2015 10:48:42 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei : can you try readding this column
06/11/2015 10:49:06 AM from Gabe Izraelevitz to Everyone:
@Martink, it looks like this query will return all the rights a resource is granted through all OBS nodes and OBS types.
06/11/2015 10:49:30 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
Is there any way to use multi-valued attributes in a grid portlet?
06/11/2015 10:49:34 AM from Martink to Everyone:
@Gabe thanks again
06/11/2015 10:50:29 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
OK Everyone - We're finishing up the last questions and wrapping up for today. Thank you for participating and please join us again in July!
06/11/2015 10:51:12 AM from Nei to Everyone:
@nika... sorry.. I afraid that I not understand.. "readding column..."
06/11/2015 10:54:12 AM from Nick Darlington (CA) to Everyone:
@Gerardo I think we will need more information about exactly how you are trying to use multi-valued (lookup) attributes and in which version of Clarity.. is it a problem with filtering? editing in a grid? displaying in a grid? Is the grid a view like project list or an NSQL portlet, and so on?
06/11/2015 10:54:31 AM from Nika Hadzhikidi (CA) to Everyone:
@Nei : I meant just edit the Webi report, can you do that or can you try creating a new one with same fields and see if it works? Please feel free to use our Live Chat feature if you want so we can check this out together in detail!
06/11/2015 10:56:03 AM from Nick Darlington (CA) to Everyone:
@Gerardo Editing and displaying a multi-valued lookup attribute in a project list on 14.2 for example works straight forward enough, but some other tasks with this type of attribute can be more complicated to achieve
06/11/2015 10:56:52 AM from Chris Hackett (CA) to Everyone:
Thanks again for participating today everyone!
06/11/2015 10:57:31 AM from Gerardo Cambours to Everyone:
Thanks!
06/11/2015 10:57:52 AM from Martink to Everyone:
Thanks