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Multi-changeset reviews pulse

Dan Bower

How do I set up multi-changeset reviews in pulse?

We've done a few weeks of work on a stream and now need to create reviews manually for changesets. However, Pulse only seems to allow me to create a review for a single changeset and I can't find a button to attach another changeset to the review. How can I get more than one changeset in this created review? Or now this work has retrospectively been related to a request item, is there any way I can select the request in the request backlog and say make a review for all the changes associated to the request?

The other question is to do with automated creation of reviews. I've set up a delivery filter that is meant to filter for all files. I didn't specify any paths in include/exclude as it says to "Leave blank to include all changeset paths" in the include box. I've also made sure the filter is selected in the stream settings and Create/Attach to a review is ticked

Now when I deliver to a stream with a request specified to relate the changes too, looking at the documentation I think it is meant to automatically create a review and update it as new deliveries are made against that request. However, it did not. What am I doing wrong?

I really appreciate any help anyone can offer

If it makes any difference, I am an administrator on both our Pulse and Dimensions CM

Dimensions 14.3.1

Pulse 14.3.1 [Build 9.54#0]

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    Hi Dan,

    When creating reviews, Pulse uses the request associated with the changeset to group the changesets into a review. It will create one review for a request and changeset "author" combination, i.e. if two people are working on the same request and delivering changesets with that request, Pulse will create two reviews for each "author" containing their changesets.

    Changesets do not have to be consecutive. Pulse will try and link the file changes together as best it can to present a review as if they were consecutive. If one of the files is changed by someone else in another changeset that falls between the changesets in the review, then you may find Pulse decides to show two changes to the file. It does this to ensure the review shows the changes made by the "author" of the changesets.

    If you have more than one person working on the same request, I'd suggest you would want to look at a version of Pulse that supports pull requests (I don't have the version number to hand that introduced pull requests).

    Filtering is designed to hide changesets from reviews, although you can use it both as include and exclude, we typically see customers using it to exclude files. You might use this if the artifacts from a build were delivered to Dimensions CM and you didn't want to review them.

    I'd suggest that you disable the checkbox on "Filter Changesets using Delivery Filter" because it sounds as if you do not want to filter anything from the reviews.

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    Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate the help. I tried enabling it as the help page suggested that it had to be on for reviews to automatically be created. Also, when it's disabled, it says this when clicking on the Create Review button on the changeset.

    I also tried delivering the stream anyway after turning this off but it did not make any difference

    Unfortunately, I'm locked to the specific version of Pulse and Dimensions we're on in the company

    The vast majority of files/requests are worked on by the same person so there shouldn't be many conflicts there

    Is there no way to create multi-changeset manually reviews if pulse doesn't create it automatically?

    Thanks again

  • 0 in reply to   

    Thanks for the quick response. I appreciate the help. I tried enabling it as the help page suggested that it had to be on for reviews to automatically be created. Also, when it's disabled, it says this when clicking on the Create Review button on the changeset.

    I also tried delivering the stream anyway after turning this off but it did not make any difference

    Unfortunately, I'm locked to the specific version of Pulse and Dimensions we're on in the company

    The vast majority of files/requests are worked on by the same person so there shouldn't be many conflicts there

    Is there no way to create multi-changeset manually reviews if pulse doesn't create it automatically?

    Thanks again

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