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Chris Trueman
over 1 year ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
How LiveCompare Discovers ALM Clients
LiveCompare integrates with ALM using the Open Test API (OTA). The API is packaged in two key DLLs: OTACLIENT.DLL WEBCLIENT.DLL Different versions of ALM have different versions of these DLLs. In the past LiveCompare was built using a specific...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7R3: Audit Apps and Workflows Usage
LiveCompare 3.7R3 includes an update Spade - an app for auditing LiveCompare apps and workflows usage. The new dashboard looks like: Which reports: App status summary Workflow status summary Top app runs Top workflow runs Top app users...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7R3: Purge Vaults
LiveCompare 3.7R3 introduces a new workflow action called Purge Vaults . Here it is in a sample workflow: Source is a table that contains: Name Description NAME Name of vault to purge. MONTHS Number...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
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LiveCompare Public/Private Userdata and External Data Sources
Customers upgrading to LiveCompare 3.7 will see public and private used in a couple of places: Userdata is now organized into public and private sub-folders External data sources (XDS) have a public and private setting The two “features”...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
Inside LiveCompare 3.7
Howard has fully revised the Inside LiveCompare guide for LiveCompare 3.7. Full details here .
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7 Released
LiveCompare 3.7 is now generally available. This release includes many improvements . Some of my favourites: Fix My Code – a new app that fixes 80% of your ABAP code as you upgrade to SAP HANA Code Watch – a new app to manage custom...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7 with LiveCompare 3.6 ABAP Components
We know that synchronizing the upgrade of the LiveCompare server and ABAP components can be challenging for customers with large SAP estates. To that end LiveCompare 3.7 is compatible with LiveCompare 3.6 ABAP components with the following exceptions...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
What's New in LiveCompare 3.7
What’s New in this Release Version 3.7 LiveCompare 3.7 includes the following new features: Apps The Code Sleuth App has been renamed as Code Guard . The Code Watch App performs a custom code analysis based on transports, ChaRM change...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7: Fix My Code
LiveCompare’s SAP HANA upgrade analysis supports five critical areas of analysis: Development Testing Integration Security Training The Upgrade Assessor app considers many facets of development including what custom code break when...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7: External Data Source REST API
In this post I introduced the idea of a REST API for LiveCompare external data sources (XDS). The implementation is complete. Let’s work through an example. Our goal is to create a dashboard like this: I start by creating the XDS: Note...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare 3.7: Dates in Apps
LiveCompare apps use widgets to simplify entering data. For example, an app might require a date in a specific format (e.g. 20170618). Rather than present a free-form text field, which has no validation, the app can use a date widget. Here’s how...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
Dashboard Text Tile Border
While a picture paints a thousand words, sometimes there’s just one word that you want to shout out loud. LiveCompare’s text tiles make this very easy to do: I’ve seen the text tiles used to reflect the results of object comparison...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
Reset My LiveCompare Password
The first hit when I googled for “ how much time do admins spend resetting passwords ” says that 45 days a year are spent resetting passwords for users in companies with 3,500 employees. Of course, that’s for all apps, not just LiveCompare...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
Simpler LiveCompare Installation Guide
Brief post today to highlight the efforts to simplify our documentation for the LiveCompare 3.7 release: The installation guide has been shrunk from 117 pages to (currently) 34. We may be able to shave a few more pages off as some configuration features...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
REST API for LiveCompare External Data Sources
One of the things we’re looking at for LiveCompare 3.7 is the addition of a read-only REST API for external data sources (XDS). For several releases we’ve support a web services API that enables third-party software to integrate with LiveCompare...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
Re-organising LiveCompare Userdata For Faster Results
Userdata is a critical part of LiveCompare. For several releases we’ve supported installing userdata outside of the product installation – a common installation style is to put the application files on one disk and userdata on another. There...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare Secure FTP for Read Large SAP Table
LiveCompare includes a specialised SAP table read action called: Read Large SAP Table . It’s used to read tables like BSEG and BSAD which hold hundreds of millions of records. LiveCompare users want access to the data to support audit-related analyses...
Chris Trueman
over 2 years ago
Chris Trueman
Chris Trueman's Blog
LiveCompare App Help
LiveCompare 3.6 introduced a feature where YouTube videos can easily be linked to apps. For SAP TechEd I made a CSI-inspired app to show off this feature: A great suggestion from a user was to add the help links to the email LiveCompare sends when...