The Update Selected dialog box now enables you to update multiple field values in a grid or a tree at once.

When updating required fields, you can set the BULK_ACTION_IGNORE_REQUIRED_FIELD site parameter to ‘Y’ to bypass checking that required fields are valued before performing an update of multiple entities.

For details, see Update Selected Dialog Box.

• You can install Global Search on Windows. For details, see ALM Global Search.
• You can now enable and configure Global Search from Site Administration. For details, see Global Search.

• You can now search for data on multiple projects.

  ALM Editions: Cross projects search is not available for Quality Center Enterprise Edition, Quality Center Community Edition, or Quality Center Express Edition.

  For details, see Globally search ALM data.

You can now add attachment links to text in memo fields. For example, Description and Comments. For details, see Select Attachment Dialog Box.

When sending emails about tests from the Test Plan module, you can now include design step attachments in your message. For details, see Send E-mail Dialog Box.

Business Models module now enables you to import models from ARIS 9.8. For details on Business Models module, see Business process models.

ALM now supports TLS 1.2.

You can now use the ActiveTreeSelection object to access the list of currently selected entities in active module that are open test architecture (OTA) objects. You can retrieve or modify selected entities by iterating through the list. For more details on Workflow, see Workflow customization.

When viewing drilled down results of a graph segment, you can now load the results in the actual module.

You can now automatically generate test configurations for your business process tests using UFT's built-in Test Combinations Generator.

Instead of manually creating multiple combinations of data for the parameters in your tests—a potentially time-consuming process—instruct UFT to generate all the combinations based on a number of different algorithms. Supported algorithms include linear, pairwise, or triplewise combinations.

For details, see How to Generate Combinations for Test Configurations.

LeanFT automation testers can now use data management capabilities in ALM, such as:

• Test configurations

• Business Process Testing input/output parameterization

• Iterations

The run of LeanFT tests and business process tests containing LeanFT components can be initiated from within ALM. Detailed HTML reports are generated that include both Business Process Testing information and the results of the LeanFT tests.

For more details, see the following table.