Working with Calendars
Information about CDA Environments can be displayed in two different ways, as a list or as a calendar. This section describes how to manage Environment calendars.
This page includes the following:
The Environment Calendar displays all reservations grouped by Environment in a graphical presentation:
- Environment Information: the name of the Environment is displayed in the Name column. The bar extends from the planned start of the first reservation to the planned end of the latest reservation.
- Reservation Information
- Name of the reservation (within the bar)
The fill color of the bar depends on the status of the reservation and is displayed as follows:
| State | Fill Color of Bar |
|---|---|
| Planned / not started / not passed milestone | white |
| Active / running | dark gray |
| Completed /canceled / passed milestone | light gray |
|
Overdue |
red |
Viewing Calendars
| Nr | Description | Example view from above |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Calendar type | Environment Calendar |
| 2 | View option (see also: Working with Custom Views) | Default view is active |
| 3 | List view option: switch to list view | Currently inactive, calendar view is shown |
|
4 |
Calendar view option: switch to calendar view | Currently active |
| 5 | Create a new environment. | Create a new environment |
| 6 | Zoom from quarter of year view to day view | Zoom is set to week view |
| 7 | Scroll back and forward in time. | Weeks from 2015-12-28 to 2017-04-01 |
| 8 | Time scale - corresponds to zoom (7) | Labels for the weeks from 2015-12-28 to 2017-04-01 |
| 9 | Calendar area - environments are displayed in rows. | Currently empty - environments and their reservations will appear when environments/reservations are created |
| 10 | List of Environments in rows. | Currently empty - environments will appear when environments are created |
| 11 | "Expand all" option | - |
| 12 | "Collapse all" option | - |
Creating Calendars
The CDA Environment calendars are interactive. You can extend or shrink reservations by resizing the corresponding item or reschedule it by dragging and dropping it to a different position within the same line.
To Create a New Environment from the Calendar
- In the calendar view click the Create button.
- Provide the following information in the pop-up dialog:
- Name: name of the environment. It has to be unique within the system and can only contain alphanumeric characters, blanks, ".", "-", "_", "@", "$", "#".
- Type: each environment has a type, e.g. a pre-production/test/production environment. You can only select a type for which you have the permission to create. Each environment type may have its own custom properties and property sets defined by an administrator
- Folder: the name of the folder in which the new entity is stored (see also: Security Concept in CDA).
- Owner: the name of the owner of the new entity.
- Click Create
As a result, you can find the created Environment (for example: TEST) in your calendar:
Change From/To of a Reservation
In the Environment Calendar, you can use drag-and-drop to reschedule a reservation or you can extend or shrink the time span by resizing the corresponding item.