Familiarize with Revtrac fundamentals functions

[rajeshazmeera]

This Article is aimed for beginners / learners associated with Revtrac tool.  Let us explore few fundamental functions.

Creating users in revtrac:

• Login to solman/Revtrac installed system  via user id and password
• Login to revtrac console ( tcode : /n/rsc/rt01). To avoid entering tcode every time , add this to your favorites)
• In console – go to organization
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• Click edit and add a new entry
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• Value is, U=0, A=1, R = U and then email address in lowercase. (exception for PI U=2)
• Save the entry and go back one screen and activate changes.

Adding peer review:  These requests come in form of snow request where the new or existing user needs to be a peer reviewer as well. This basically allows team members to approve their transports for code change/functionality change etc. This is a not requested frequently. 

• In console – go to organization
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  • Click each tab under users to reach organization structure
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    • Edit à add an entry à add: team name (there are already populated and can also found in Snow ticket) , Position – Peer for peer review, userID, leave the standin box, Full name )
    • Save the change and go back one screen
    • Click on activate changes and update the snow ticket.
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    • Approving RTR (Rev-Trac request) :   
    • • You’re alerted with an email.  You can click the link in the email request or login to URL -> enter the rtr number

      https://hostname.xxxx.com/revtrac/SID/dashboards

      Steps:

      • Open the RTR# (by using one of the above)
      • Click on Migrate to prod tab à Click yes to subsequent pop up and post completed you will the task bar will move forward to in production tab. That means the approval is completed. Resultà for example : 2475 ( it is approved and ready for production move)
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      • Exceptions: OOPS error: if there is a oops error, make sure you reach out to ops
      • Updating mass update to users.    After our change in domain, we have a requirement to change email addresses of all users. So here are the steps to convert them.

      • Yes, the email address needs to change in the user table in Rev-Trac…

        Yes, there is an easier way…!

      • First, back up the entire configuration like below:

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        Save the output to something like “SID-Config - 031523.dnl”. we are backing up the whole configuration in case anything goes wrong (so we have a backup of existing one)

        Then, do the following:

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        Then, look at the next two screenshots:

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        Select only the users and download to a file named something like “SID-Users - 021523.dnl

        Now edit the notefile and replace the domain using find and replace.

        Once done do the similar steps only for users and this time upload the file instead of download.

      • Thank you for taking time to go through this article.