Application Analyzer provides the ability to view critical developer information relating to any WebReports or Content Server Applications (CSApps) within your Content Suite platform, including:
Application Analyzer provides you with the ability to instantly see the complex structures and relationships of the various software components that make up any WebReport application.
Applications can be easily understood using intuitive browsing and visualizing tools that illustrate the connections and bindings that bring an application together.
Direct links are provided that enable you to view any related objects such as data sources and destinations.
By eliminating the need to manually trace through WebReports code, tracing constants, parameters and other information, Application Analyzer significantly reduces the time and errors involved in maintaining and updating existing WebReports applications. By crawling the WebReports code, the tool reveals a hierarchical view containing information about all dependencies and related WebReports. Further details of each sub-WebReport can be revealed with a single click.
Parameters are the backbone of any WebReports application. They define how information is passed between users and multiple layers of Content Suite objects.
Understanding this interaction is critical to managing applications, and Application Analyzer makes this easier through its visual navigation and ability to see where and how parameters are being used.
Application Analyzer allows you to see which constants are actually being used in any ActiveView or WebReport and where those constants are defined. Constants can be shared, inherited, or locally defined, and sometimes that flexibility can lead to duplication and inefficiency if not properly managed.
This feature can also be used to show all available constants and their sources allowing you to spot duplication, unnecessary references, or unwanted inheritance.
From any given constant, you can directly access the referenced WebReport, even when it is part of a chain referenced WebReports.
Use the Application Analyzer to analyze WebReports (and ActiveView) relationships visually, easily identifying how each component is connected together. Specifically the tool identifies:
This allows you to easily traverse the software stack and examine each item.
Use the Version List to request source comparisons (diffs) from any version of development objects. Compare with the most recent version, or compare with previous versions.
Change comparisons include source search and copy-paste functionality.
The Sub-Tag Loader enables organizations to install, load and update WebReports sub-tags without the need to restart Content Server services.
The Sub-Tag Loader is essential for organizations that have significant restrictions on server restarts and it can be a real boon to developers who need to deploy software to those customers.
This tool builds and loads all sub-tag drop-ins for every thread on a server, tracking and confirming each successful build to ensure full loading.
To simplify the process of creating WebReports, RavenBlack has developed a suite of over 30 useful sub-tags that you can include within your own WebReports.
These sub-tags can be loosely categorized into these categories:
The library is being continually extended and a full list of current sub-tags, along with more detailed information on this suite can be found in the document below.
When it comes to designing and developing Content Intelligence (WebReports) applications or business solutions, we can honestly say that there is no-one more experienced than us. After all, we wrote the original product. If you need help creating powerful solutions to solve the unique challenges of your own company, then reach out to us today.
