From concept to creation
If you need to check your new installation is running IPv6, then you can use Project Manager, or the Help->About screen in WorkBench, Document Publisher etc.
There’s a whole host of other information on these screens which will tell you; how your client found the CDS (Cradle Database Server), which language variant is active and which licences you are currently using.
If you need to ensure no-one can log into your project, in order that you can:
Then locking the project to a selected user can ensure a data manager has the appropriate control.
Lock your projects to a selected user through Cradle’s Project Manager. Only MANAGER and the optional named user can login to the project. They are also the only users who can unlock the project once again.
Cradle is currently available in available in eight English/ English US, Chinese(zh), Dutch(nl), German(de), French(fr), Korean(ko), Russian(ru) and Welsh(cy), languages.
If there is a UI (User Interface) language you would like, please speak to us and we will quote for other translations. Alternatively you can add your own Language, Country or Regional variant. Use the supplied Message Catalogue Manager software tool in Cradle.
3SL Customers with active maintenance have been sent an e-mail notification of this release, and details of which enhancement requests and bug reports are in it.
Cradle-7.2 contains a range of new capabilities that are described in its release notes:
https://www.threesl.com/downloads/download.php?version=v7.2§ion=documentation&filename=rm00776-V72ReleaseNotes.pdf
Some of the highlights are:
Cradle-7.2 available from our website here: https://www.threesl.com/downloads/software.php
You need a new Security Code for Cradle-7.2, other Security Codes cannot be used. There is a database conversion from 7.1 to 7.2. The converter which run automatically if you install Cradle-7.2 ‘over the top of, in the same directory as, the earlier version of Cradle from which you are upgrading.
You must upgrade all Cradle installations to 7.2. Cradle-7.1 clients cannot connect to a Cradle-7.2 server, and a Cradle-7.2 server cannot serve Cradle-7.1 clients.
We hope that you will welcome the new capabilities in Cradle-7.2!
A (PFD) Process Flow Diagram, rather than Pancake Flow Diagram, can be used to model Each Process Flow Diagram (PFD) shows a particular tasks or processes that the system can perform. This is termed a flow. Systems may have many flows each of which may have simultaneous or optional elements.
Modelling the flow before you take action can ensure you have thought about, and documented the expected behaviour(s). It can be clear which parts of the system are operating in parallel and which could be bottlenecks awaiting the outcome of previous operations. However, modelling Shrove Tuesday’s pancakes may be a bit over the top…..
If you are operating in a secure environment and have multiple projects, you may want to launch WorkBench faster from a Windows Desktop shortcut.
Configure the shortcut for an individual Cradle user with “-login USERNAME,PASSWORD,PROJ-CODE ” for Cradle’s WorkBench.
For an even faster connection, you could also specify -cds thus alleviating WorkBench from searching for a server. (Without this parameter WorkBench will broadcast and await a response from an available CDS before connecting)
Configure with “-cds HOSTNAME/IP-ADDRESS” and give the host or IP address of the server running the CDS (Cradle Database Server).
If you are running from Linux, you can also use these parameters. When launching WorkBench from the command line use c_work and the -login and -cds parameters.
We want to increase the number of videos in our YouTube channel and we need your help. So please:
If you know some topics that you want to see in a video, tell us what they are!
Thank you for any help that you can provide, either as comments on this discussion, or by e-mails to me at: mark.walker@threesl.com
No matter where Alan is he can get to his project. This remote access could be through WorkBench or Web Access, both part of the Cradle suite.
If you have access to a browser you can configure your installation to allow remote access to your projects enabling the most common functions to be performed from anywhere in the world.
For full power (offering all the requirements management software and systems engineering tools available), users access the same projects via the WorkBench application. Provided the network allows, a client installation of WorkBench can also access the CDS (Cradle Database Server) from around the globe, but a Citrix installation may be more desirable allowing remote access to a server / multi client installation.
The tool provided to web users is really the contents of web pages displayed in their browsers. These pages are created by the CWS from:
The user has full control of the contents of these HTML templates, e.g.:
Your project’s data is important and obviously you do not want to lose or damage any of it.
We recommend the following steps to help guard against accidental deletions of, or damage to, your project data:
Handling masses amount of data within a project can be very challenging. Especially when only wanting to see certain values. Adding colour to these values is not only simple but very effective.
It is usual for most types of information, particularly user stories, features, needs, requirements, test cases and test results to have attributes that characterise the items, such as:
– The priority or release cycle of a user story
– The result of a test
– The responsibility of a system requirement
– The severity of a risk
It is helpful to colour-code these values and to display the attributes with background or foreground colours set from the attributes’ values. To do this:
1. Define colours for the category code’s values in the schema
2. When the category is shown in a view cell, enable use of colour, either foreground or background
You can choose any colours for your values, but there are obvious advantages in using ‘traffic light’ based colours to convey items that are important, delinquent, serious or failures (typically red) and optional, low, OK, satisfactory or pass (typically green), with orange and yellow used for intermediate values. We typically use a bright blue for unset values, simply because they ‘stand out’.
Hopefully after this you can start to implment colour into projects making it easier for everyone locating key data. The cradle help offers in depth detail on topics relating to values in colour.