[Anthill-pro] Question about the new dashboard

Tue Jan 15 02:33:21 CST 2008

Ryan,

The workflow in question consists of 4 jobs. Each job ends with assign status step (ok, steps, one for success and one for failure). The last thing that gets executed in a workflow is an assign status step! Still nothing...

I even tried the following. I deleted the build-life that was showing at the dashboard. It went into Inactive state (which I don't understand at all, because when I delete other build-lifes, they are gone!) and it's still showing in the dashboard. 

Currenty, the dashboard is totally useless because it shows statuses as they were 2 months ago... 

Mladen

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From: anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com [mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] On Behalf Of Ryan Smith
Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 4:53 PM
To: AnthillPro user and support list.
Subject: Re: [Anthill-pro] Question about the new dashboard

Mladen,

The workflow dashboard should show the most recent build lives that have been assigned each build life status. A build life will not appear in here because its workflow succeeds or fails. It only appears if you assign a build life status to it with the assign status step.

It sounds like you had a secondary workflow fail on a build life and are expected that to set a build life status of failed. Usually the success and failed build life statuses are only assigned on the originating workflow.

Ryan

Mladen Maravić wrote:
> Well, I have a project (lets call it Project A) that has a life cycle 
> model called Life-Cycle Model M. This LCM M has the default statuses 
> (Archived, success, failure). My stamping strategy just pust a timestamp 
> for the stamp (it's a nighty build).This all works well! The difference 
> is in the data I get when I view them at two different places:
> 
>  
> 
> 1.       Dashboard. I login into Anthill and I'm presented with the 
> dashboard. In the dashboard I find the Project A, I expand it's 
> workflow, and there is my dev.nighty workflow. Next to it is a status 
> "Failed" and a Stamp "5_5-n-20071130.2203" (a build that failed that was 
> run 2007-11-30; almost two months ago).
> 
> 2.       If I now click the workflow name I get a page that gives me (at 
> the top) the "Most Recent Status Assignments" list. This list contains 
> the following:
> 
>  
> 
> ·         Status: "success"   Build life: "1549"   Stamp: 
> "HEAD-n-20080114.0835"
> 
> ·         Status: "failure"   Build life: "1453"   Stamp: 
> "HEAD-n-20080102.2204"
> 
>  
> 
> So, what's the deal with the dashboard? It is clearly NOT showing the 
> most recent status. It makes no sense...
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> *From:* anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com 
> [mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Boone
> *Sent:* Thursday, January 10, 2008 5:31 PM
> *To:* AnthillPro user and support list.
> *Subject:* Re: [Anthill-pro] Question about the new dashboard
> 
>  
> 
> Mladen,
> 
> Those status and stamps come from the Lie-Cycle Model that is associated 
> with a project.  When you create a project, you must specify a 
> Life-Cycle Model.  Life-Cycle models are created from the System Tab. 
> 
> Stamping is done differently in 3.4, and uses Project Properties to 
> create the stamp. 
> 
> Also, can you take a look at your stamping strategy on your workflow and 
> let me know what is there?
> 
> Regards,
> Steve  Boone
> 
> On 1/10/08, *Mladen Maravić* <mladen.maravic at svgroup.hr 
> <mailto:mladen.maravic at svgroup.hr>> wrote:
> 
> After upgrading to 3.4 we got a brand new dashboard that shows me all of 
> my active projects, project's workflows and it's statuses and stamps.
> 
>  
> 
> Here is the question: where does Anthill take those statuses and stamps 
> from?
> 
>  
> 
> For example,
> 
> I have a project called RetailServices. It consists of several 
> workflows. One of them is "nightly". The "nightly" workflow, as I look 
> at it through Dashboard, has a status of failed and a stamp from almost 
> a month ago. If I click on the workflow name, I get a more detailed page 
> that tells me that the most recent "nightly" build was a success and was 
> carried out half an hour ago and requested by me. So why does dashboard 
> say that the "nightly" workflow has failed and puts a month-old stamp on 
> the page instead of the half-an-hour-ago one? This is true of almost all 
> of my workflows! The dashboard simply doesn't reflect the most current 
> status of my workflow builds, but rather some past status that seems 
> totally random. Can anybody shed some light on this?
> 
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