Ravenblack Productivity Suite for WebReports

Ravenblack Application Analyzer

Examine Linked Content Server application components

The Application Analyzer provides the ability to manage all aspects of  Content Server applications using WebReports or related,  linked, objects. This includes:

• Navigation, search and reporting tools to identify any and all features that impact a system whether via triggers, schedules, Workflows, or Perspectives
• Management of all linked development objects with easy access to relevant meta-data including application contents such as sub-tags, INI settings and support files
• Tree or hierarchy style visualization of several different component relationships, regardless of physically location
• Enhanced editing features such as version comparisons, step back versions, auto complete for all tags and sub-tags, enhanced validation
• Auditing and auto documentation features. 
  
  

Save time uncovering complex application structures

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.

• Quickly view any linked objects
• Find Constant references to WebReports,  ActiveViews or other components

Quickly locate and validate parameters

Parameters are the backbone of any WebReports application. They define how information is passed between users and multiple layers of Content Suite objects (perspectives, WebReports, LiveReports, etc.)
Understanding this interaction is critical to managing applications, and Application Analyzer makes it easier to see where and how parameters are being used through its clear inspection paradigm. 

Untangle confusing constant definitions and references 

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 to aid in finding performance improvements!

From any given constant, you can directly access the referenced WebReport, even when it is part of a chain of referenced constants. 

Analyze Software relationships

Use the Application Analyzer to analyze WebReports (and ActiveView) relationships visually, easily identifying how each component is connected together. Specifically the tool identifies:

• SubWebReport calls (solid line)
• Constant references to WebReports or ActiveViews being used for client request calls (dotted lines)

This allows you to easily traverse the software stack and examine each item.

Full Featured Editor

No development environment would be complete without the ability to edit development objects.  While Content Server already has an online editor for WebReports, Application Analyzer has extended this and integrated it into the overall analyzer framework. This editor includes an improved validation feature that highlights the exact location of each error, and has the ability to auto complete all of the tags available in any given release.  The editor allows a quick "draft save" to save your work without potentially breaking live components.  It also allows stepping back through versions (without leaving the editor) and the ability to compare versions with a "diff" tool.  Most of these features are available for any text based object in Content Server. 

Analyze Software Changes

Use the Version List provided for all versioned objects, to request source comparisons (diffs) from any version of the objects.  Compare with the most recent version, or compare with previous versions. 

Sub-Tag Loader

Install new sub-tags without restarts

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.

RavenBlack Sub-Tag Suite

Optimize WebReports development processes

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:

• Support and debugging aids with logging and timing tools
• Development accelerators based on years of development experience
• Data management. Read/Write:
  • DB tables
  • Server (preferences)
  • Threads (memory)

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.