Web User Interface

The new web user interface requires that a number of additional new tables be maintained with data in order for users to take advantage of the functionality.

• By default all users are allocated with the “Default Web User Role” which provides access to the default actions and metrics. This controls which actions and metrics the users sees in the web UI. By default the ones shipped with Transport Express are:

Actions:

• View all changes awaiting my approval
• View all changes awaiting my testing
• View all my in progress changes
• View all in progress changes for my team
  

Metrics:

• Awaiting my approval
• Awaiting my testing
• My in progress changes
• In progress changes for my team
• In progress changes for project
  

To maintain other roles to alter the actions and metrics that are available to users please see tables:

• /BTI/TE_WEBUICFG: General web UI parameters / config table
• /BTI/TE_USERPREF: Web UI User preferences table
• /BTI/TE_ROLEACT: Role actions table to link the user roles to the default actions
• /BTI/TE_ROLEMET: Role metrics table to link the user roles to the default metrics
  

• To enable the “In progress changes for my team” each user will need to be allocated to the task groups that represent their team. This will then allocated all tasks for those groups to the team. (See /BTI/TE_USERGRPS table)

• If user pictures are required these can be uploaded into the Transport Express Domain Controller system. This will then automatically show the user picture in the screen header, news items, recent activity, task list and task details views. See the instructions for the USERPIC_PREFIX field in the /BTI/TE_WEBUICFG table.

• In addition a new background job is needed to generate data for the web UI News and My Recent Activity feeds. (See Background Jobs)

• By default the primary tester of the task is designated as the task owner unless a user role is attached to the task to override this. See the details for the TASKOWNER_ROLEID field in the /BTI/TE_WEBUICFG table.

• The Projects views will show project management information for projects where phase data has been maintained. If nothing is maintained for a project the message “No phase data exists for the selected project” will be displayed. To maintain the data use tables:
• /BTI/TE_PHASE: Project phases table
• /BTI/TE_PHASSTAT: Table to assign the task statuses to the project phases
• /BTI/TE_PRJPHASE: Table to assign the project phases to a project along with the start an end dates

To enable the new web user interface some services need to be activated in SICF:

• default_host -> BTI -> te_web_services
• default_host -> sap -> bc -> bsp -> bti -> te_bsp_new
  

Other general BSP services may also need to be activated to enable the web interface to work.

• All subnodes in default_host -> sap -> public -> bsp -> sap
  Once activated, you can test the service to determine the URL:
• http://:80/sap/bc/bsp/bti/te_bsp_new/index.html
  

You will be prompted for a logon to the Transport Express domain controller SAP system. Use your SAP username and password.

Once logged on, you will be able to access the available functionality and this can be used simultaneously with the Transport Express windows client.

Email notifications: To ensure that approval and testing emails direct the user to the new web UI please ensure that the BSP sever address parameter in the email notification program variant (/BTI/TE_RNOTIFICATION_ENGINE) is set to the correct value. E.g.

• http://:80/

Tables
All have Table Maintenance dialogs.

The user roles are maintained in TE configuration on the User ROles tab.

Background Jobs
In order to generate the data for the web UI News and My Recent Activity feeds a background job is required to run every 5 or 10 minutes to execute program /BTI/TE_RUNEWS_UPDATE.

In the program variant the “No. of days to retrieve events” parameter should specify the number of days that the News / My Recent Activity is required to be reported for. The default is 60 days but in reality this would be much less.