Administration Guide › Configuring System Parameters › Advanced Settings › Contract Parameters

Contract Parameters

This option enables the user to set Contract related parameters.

Follow these steps:

1. In the Advanced Settings page, select Contract.

   The contract parameters display.

   Add custom attributes to the Contract list search and display them in the Contracts list grid (Y/N)

   Set to enable addition of custom attributes to the Contract list search and to display them in the Contracts list grid.

   Allow changing time zone between contract versions in metrics(Y/N)

   Set to enable changing time zones in metrics between contract versions.

   Allow mass measurability setting (Y/N)

   Set to Y to enable user to change a measurability status for several metrics.

   Allow service override

   Enables service override in Contract creation.

   Cloned metric name pattern

   Cloned metric name pattern, source metric name, metric service

   Custom source for parameters data enabled (Y/N)

   • Show items related to All services (Y/N)
   • Show items related to all services in the Contract Creation wizard or not.
   • Set if an external data source is allowed for parameters.

   Custom source for parameters data URL

   Set the path to the external data source for retrieving parameter values.

   Note: The URL path must be set with the same name of the CA Business Service Insight computer that is used to access CA Business Service Insight through the web browser.

   Display Contracts list without the full data in the Info tooltip (Y/N)

   Set to enable Info tool tip (that appears next to each contract in the Contracts page) to display data.

   Expand Notes field in Metric Wizard (Y/N)

   Set to expand the Notes field by default.

   Maximum resources

   Set the maximum number of resources that can be selected in static clustering (between 1 to 100)

   Metric notes default system encoding UTF-8

   When converting metric notes from HTML to DOCX, and when HTML has no encoding, this encoding is used.

   Rename metrics in previous versions

   Set to enable renaming of metrics in previous contract versions.

   Use Inline Notes N

   Enter notes inline or upload them.

2. Click the edit icon next to an option and enter the value.

   The edit icon changes to an update icon.

3. Click update to save your changes.

   The value is refreshed.

To configure Export Parameters:

1. In the Advanced Settings page, select Contract, Export Parameters.

   The export parameters display.

   Format of the chart

   Set the chart format to JPG or EMF.

   Support images placed in the note field when generating booklets (Y/N)

   When generating booklets, images placed in the Notes field are included in the report (Y) or are not included (N).

2. Click the edit icon next to an option and enter the value.

   The edit icon changes to an update icon.

3. Click update to save your changes.

   The value is refreshed.