Use Cases
Identify and Fix Broken Parameters During Plugin Upgrades
2 min
scenario alex has a working plugin, but she is ready to upgrade it previously, plugins had a narrow scope of data for inputs and outputs this meant alex had to rely on swimlane customer support to identify and provide enhancements, so that the plugin would not break the narrow scope meant alex lost time contacting customer support and waiting for assistance now alex wants to resolve input and output parameter breaks in plugin upgrades by having the application alert her to inputs and outputs that will break post upgrade alex has taken the step to upgrade the plugin and she is ready to resolve tasks that will break as a result of the upgrade solution alex can resolve the scenario above with the following solution add a new plugin and click the hyperlink to upgrade the plugin under assets & tasks with changes , alex now sees exactly which tasks will break during the upgrade, allowing her to resolve before completing the upgrade click continue upgrade alex clicks resolve # issue note there can be more than one task/asset to resolve now, alex can resolve the issues that she found the application alerted alex that there was a broken output parameter, so she navigated to output parameters click discover parameters alex clicks run task , and then scrolls through the results to discover the parameter she selects majestic rank based on the application's alert click add selected parameters alex now sees majestic rank under the output parameters next, she clicks outputs to resolve the unmapped parameters tip a red alert icon indicates unmapped parameters click unmapped parameters alex has verified the unmapped parameter, and clicks add mappings to app click approve to add the new fields to the application alex has updated the parameter, which shows as mapped click save after alex closes the remaining screens, she navigates to application records , and selects the desired application and adds a new record the new field is available note in this use case, alex added the rank field click run search alex verifies the search runs successfully!