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Documentation

Context-sensitive Online Help is provided with CA Clarity PPM.

The entire set of CA Clarity PPM guides is available from CA Support and can be accessed from the CA Clarity PPM bookshelf. With this bookshelf, you can view a specific guide or search the entire bookshelf for related information. You can view an HTML version of these guides, download a PDF, or download a .zip of the entire bookshelf.

You can access the CA Clarity PPM bookshelf from the product support page or from the documentation page. Visit CA Support periodically for the latest editions of CA Clarity PPM guides.

The following documents are available from the bookshelf:

Release Documents

Document

Description

Change Impact and Upgrade Guide

Describes changes to CA Clarity PPM for the release and outlines any upgrade actions due to the changes.

Release Notes

Introduces you to key features and additional resources.

User Guides

Guide

Description

CA Clarity PPM Basics

Describes the basic features of CA Clarity PPM for users, such as navigational techniques, favorite links, access to portlets, and account setup.

Demand Management

Describes how you can capture, classify, evaluate, and dispose of all sources of demand.

Financial Management

Describes how a financial manager can set up CA Clarity PPM for financial management, create financial summaries and detailed financial plans, and process transactions and chargebacks.

IT Service Management

Describes how you can analyze investments associated with a service for value and quality and make informed financial decisions.

Personalizing CA Clarity PPM

Describes more advanced features available for users to personalize CA Clarity PPM for individual use.

Portfolio Management

Describes how to create portfolios and analyze investments in portfolios using CA Clarity PPM.

Project Management

Describes how a project manager can create projects, set up project defaults, and schedule and assign tasks using CA Clarity PPM.

Requirements Planning

Describes how you can define and track the deliverable requirements of your business, and capture your business values in the form of requirements.

Resource Management

Describes how a resource manager can create, manage, and find resources using CA Clarity PPM.

Administrative, Developer, and Technical Guides

Guide

Description

Access Rights Reference Guide

Describes CA Clarity PPM access rights.

Administration

Describes the administrative features used to support and maintain CA Clarity PPM, such as user accounts, passwords, access, processes, reports, and jobs.

Business Objects Universe Developer

Describes how to create Business Objects reports using the Business Objects universes created for CA Clarity PPM.

CA Clarity-Xcelsius Implementation

Describes Xcelsius visualizations and how you can configure for real-time CA Clarity PPM data transfers using web service connections.

Installation

Describes how to install CA Clarity PPM.

Studio Developer

Describes how to configure CA Clarity PPM by creating new pages, fields, and portlets.

Technical Reference

Describes the CA Clarity PPM database tables and columns and entity-relationship diagrams.

XML Open Gateway Developer

Describes how to import and export CA Clarity PPM data through the XML Open Gateway.