CA Clarity PPM 14.2 Release Notes › Enhanced Features › Documentation

Documentation

You can find the VersionOne integration documentation in the Installation Guide.

The following CA Clarity PPM documentation improvements are available with this release:

• Advanced Reporting. A new CA Clarity PPM page, CA PPM Advanced Reporting and Database Schema Index, is added to CA Support Online. The link for the page is located under Popular Links on the CA PPM Product Page.

  This page contains links for technical information about CA Clarity PPM, Data Warehouse, Jaspersoft, and PMO Accelerator.

  To see the page, click the following link:

  CA PPM Advanced Reporting and Database Schema Index.

  Note: You must be logged in to see the information that the links present.

  The new page contains the following documentation links:

  • CA Clarity PPM Database Schema

    Note: In the previous releases, this information was included in the Technical Reference Guide. Now a link to the support site has been included where the information was previously.

  • Data Warehouse Database Schema
  • Data Warehouse ERD Diagram
  • PMO Accelerator for Jaspersoft Advanced Reporting
  • Advanced Reporting Domain Field Descriptions
  • PMO Accelerator Overview Guides
• Studio Developer Guide. The last step for creating a custom object was updated to reflect your ability to edit the default menu link to the list page. Previous documentation suggested only that you create a new menu link to the custom object list page. A sample screen image was added to demonstrate the appearance of chart portlet data that is grouped by column or function.
  • Prerequisites for content packages were updated to include the required Document Management System (DMS). As an administrator, install and configure the DMS before using content package JAR files in Studio.
• Financial Management User Guide. The equations and descriptions in the Financial Metrics Used for Planning topic were reviewed and improved.
• Resource Management User Guide. The calculation for the default allocation percentage has been improved. Although it does not directly change the steps to perform staffing tasks, resource managers can benefit from more accurate results. See Resource Average Allocation Percentage in this guide.

Microsoft Project Improvements

Microsoft Project 2013 Service Pack 1 Support

Microsoft Project 2013 Service Pack 1 is supported only for the new CA Clarity PPM Microsoft Project driver and not the legacy driver.

Auto-Numbering and Project IDs

If auto-numbering is set for the Project object, auto-numbering is enforced on creating and saving a project to CA Clarity PPM. The Project ID field in Microsoft Project becomes read-only.

Assignment Max % Load for the Fixed Unit Tasks

When you open or export a project from Microsoft Project, use the MSP Assignment Units Mapping with Clarity Assignment ‘Max % Load' option to turn on or off the mapping of Max % Load. When this option is selected, the Microsoft Project unit is mapped based on the Max % Load value in CA Clarity PPM. When this option is cleared, the staff allocation rate that is based on the date the project is opened in Microsoft Project is used to map.

To set this option, open Administration, and from Project Management, click Settings.

When you save or import a project to CA Clarity PPM, the MSP Assignment Units Mapping with Clarity Assignment ‘Max % Load' value is always written to Max % Load regardless of this setting.