Project Planning and Tracking Tab

This tab enables you to manage PPT calculations for your entire site.

To access

In Site Administration, click the Project Planning and Tracking tab.

Important information

  • The database server time displayed on the bottom right-side of the Project Planning and Tracking tab is used when scheduling calculations.

  • By default, ALM performs calculations on a project that has been in use in the past 7 days. If a project has not been in use in the past 7 days, calculations are not performed. To change the number of days, edit the PPT_RECENTLY_USED_PROJECTS_THRESHOLD_MINUTES parameter in the Site Configuration tab in Site Administration. For details, see Setting ALM Configuration Parameters.

  • By default, if 10% or more of the KPI calculations within the release fail, ALM aborts project planning and tracking calculations on a release and skips to the next release in a project. To change the percentage value, edit the PPT_KPI_FAILURES_PERCENTAGE_PER_RELEASE_FUSE parameter in the Site Configuration tab in Site Administration. For details, see Setting ALM Configuration Parameters.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements

Description


This button includes the following options:

Refresh Status. Refreshes the Project Planning and Tracking tab so that it displays the most up-to-date information.

Automatic Refresh. Instructs ALM to automatically refresh the Project Planning and Tracking tab. By default, the tab is automatically refreshed every 60 seconds.

Set Refresh Rate. Opens the Set Refresh Rate dialog box, enabling you to change the automatic refresh rate in seconds.


Terminates all PPT activities.


Enables PPT for your site.

Current Status

Includes the following options:

Enabled/Disabled. Indicates whether PPT is enabled for your site.

Active/Inactive. Indicates whether the scheduled calculation is currently running.

Apply Settings

Applies scheduling changes.

This area enables you to schedule PPT calculations for your entire site.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements

Description

Automatically Run Calculations On

Indicates whether or not scheduled calculations are performed on your site.

Daily Calculation Start Time

Start time for scheduling PPT calculations.

Calculation Recurrence

Runs calculations periodically at a specified time.

Abort Calculation After

Ends scheduled calculations at a specified time.

This area enables you to purge calculations after a specific time period.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements

Description

Delete data older than X days

Deletes data older than the defined value. The default value is set to 120 days.

Note: To retain the scorecards, the last five days of the results of the milestone are not purged.

This area enables you to increase the number of parallel calculations that are being performed on an entire site. You can also change the speed of scheduled calculations.

User interface elements are described below:

UI Elements

Description

Override Settings

Enables the advanced settings.

Number of Engines

Sets the number of parallel calculations that are being performed concurrently on an entire site.

Engines Throttle

Changes the speed that it takes for ALM to calculate the KPI data. 1 indicates a slower processing speed and minimum database stress. 10 indicates a faster processing speed and maximum database stress.