Collaborator issues displaying Excel xlsx documents
Hi everyone, Has anyone run into any issues with Collaborator only partially displaying .xlsx documents? Our environment uses the web client and when reviewing these documents, portions of the document are cut off. Does Collaborator only import cells with data in them? Are there any known issues with Collaborator and excel?
get export of report programatically
I'm part of a team that collects metrics for our company and we've been asked to integrate with Collaborator. When I run the All Defects report from the web, this is the URL that's displayed: https://collab.mycompany.com//go?groupFilter=9&defectReviewIdVis=y&reviewCompletionDateVis=y&reportTitle=All+Defects&defectCreatedOnVis=y&groupDepth=all&defectIdVis=y&defectStateVis=y&data-format=report_html&component=ErrorsAndMessages&formSubmittedreportConfig=1&sort0=order%3Ddesc%7C%7C%7Ccol%3DdefectId&sort1=col%3D%7C%7C%7Corder%3Dasc&page=ReportDefectList&ErrorsAndMessages_fingerPrint=861101#data" We've been having a lot of trouble figuring out how to get this report through the json api. Is this possible? Is there another way to do it? Thanks
Finding all reviews that have an artifact in them
Hi. I'm trying to use the REST API to find all reviews that have a particular artifact in them. If I use the command-line client to get the review in XML format, I'm looking for the string that is in the <artifacts> section, in <artifact>, then <path>. But basically, I'd be happy if I could search by the full path of the artifact and get all reviews that have string in the Artifacts (or the "review materials" - "changes from Git"). I'd further like to reduce it to reviews that match a string in the custom field. I've searched through the documentation but so far have not been able to find anything that lets me do this programmatically. I know I can do it from the web GUI but I really need to have my program be able to ask Collaborator for the reviews that match this criteria. Is there any way to do this? Even if the list is a bit overly broad I can get each review and search it but I'm trying to reduce the number of reviews I ask for as that is a very time-consuming task. Thanks... Brian
Collaborator Comment Pin Location - What are the units?
collab.exe admin review-xml <review#> returns an xml structure that includes the comments. Part of the response looks like this: <location type="Coordinate"> <page>4</page> <pinNumber>3</pinNumber> <x>1030</x> <y>669</y> </location> What are the units of the X and Y coordinates?Inability to delete an Upload to Review Materials due to comments
I have searched all the documentation and conversations and understand that an upload to the Review Materials can not be deleted if there is a comment or defect in any one of the files, so I have no question about that. But I do have a comment about that. That is the most short-sighted and ridiculous rule. The idea that a responsible Administrator can not correct a Review is extremely frustrating. What has happened is in a Review with about 10 changed files, the author in attempting to correct an error in his code erroneously uploaded a branch with hundreds of changed files. Now we are stuck with this huge set of changes - NOT because someone has commented on this new upload, but because someone had previously commented on one of the files in that upload, which collaborator so conveniently carries over to the new upload. Of course we uploaded the correct set of files afterword, BUT have had to put up an overall comment, which we can only HOPE that our Reviewers will see, to tell everyone to ignore uploads before a certain date. If they don't notice this message then they'll spend hours reviewing incorrect code changes. So we need to go to an outside method to email everyone to be careful about this review because Collaborator wont allow us to logically control our own review. The idea that "Smartbear" doesn't think we are smart enough for an Administrator to surgically edit a Review to correct errors feels like being managed by a helicopter parent. This along with several other issues like not being able to control the placement of User Defined Fields (making our Review forms haphazard and confusing), an inability to create Reports in our own format, and even the fact that Notes for a file are displayed in a Center Justified column (so that short notes can't be seen at all because they are sitting out in the middle of someone else's 3 sentence notes). That such basic functions are out of our control becomes very annoying. Despite the time and effort we have spent converting to and learning Code Collaborator many people are starting to recognize that there are other options out there that might be more flexible.
