Enable or disable Web Runner or its modules

By default Web Runner is available at a site level for all ALM projects. You can disable Web Runner at a site level or at a project level. You can also enable or disable Web Runner modules at the project level.

Enable or disable Web Runner at a site level

If you enable or disable Web Runner at a site level, you enable or disable Web Runner for all ALM projects, both existing and new projects.

To enable or disable Web Runner at a site level:

  1. In Site Administration, click the Site Configuration tab.

  2. Set DISABLE_WEB_RUNNER to Y or N. For more details on setting ALM site parameters, see Set configuration parameters.

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Enable or disable Web Runner at a project level

You can enable or disable Web Runner at a project level by either of the following method:

Enable or disable Web Runner from Web Runner Admin page

To enable or disable from the Web Runner Admin page:

  1. Open the Web Runner Admin page. See Web Runner Admin.

  2. To enable or disable Web Runner for multiple project, select the projects, and in the Web Runner column heading, click to disable Web Runner, or to enable Web Runner.

    To enable or disable Web Runner for an individual project, click or in the Web Runner column.

  3. Click Save.

Enable or disable Web Runner by editing database table

To enable or disable from the database table:

  1. Connect to your site administration database schema.
  2. In the PROJECTS table, obtain the PI_PUID of each project for which you want to disable Web Runner.

  3. In the PROJECT_INFO table, insert the information for the projects. The information includes:

    • PI_PUID: what you obtain from the PROJECTS table to identify the project.
    • PI_KEY: enter DISABLE_WEB_RUNNER.

    • PI_VALUE: enter Y to disable.

      Note: If you want to enable Web Runner for a certain project that previously had Web Runner disabled, you can change PI_VALUE to N, or remove the project record from the PROJECT_INFO table.

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Enable or disable Web Runner modules

You can enable or disable Dashboard, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects, and defect editing at a project level.

To enable or disable a module for multiple projects:

  1. Open the Web Runner Admin page.

  2. Select the target projects.

    To select all existing projects, select the Select All checkbox,

  3. Click under the target module to enable the module for all existing projects. Click to disable the module for all existing projects.

  4. Click Save.

To enable or disable a module for an individual project:

  1. Open the Web Runner Admin page.

  2. Locate the project. Click in the target module column to enable the module. Click to disable the module.

  3. Click Save.

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