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Acing our exams—Polarion consultants certified by IREB (International Requirements Engineering Board)

Acing our exams—Polarion consultants certified by IREB (International Requirements Engineering Board)

January 18, 2013
At Polarion, creating more value for our customers is a top priority. Part of Polarion’s ongoing internal training activities are dedicated to just that.All of our consultants who ...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Migrate MKS to SVN – free data migration tool from Polarion

Migrate MKS to SVN – free data migration tool from Polarion

November 28, 2012
By Tim Ströbele Polarion has actively supported the Subversion community since 2005. One major contribution has been a set of free Subversion tools, and in particular tools for migrating to Subve...
By Timothy Stroebele
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New open source Subversion training released

New open source Subversion training released

October 28, 2009
We've just released an updated version of our open source project SubTrain, our highly appreciated SVN training tool for new and advanced Subversion users and admins. In terms of downloads, it gets ...
By Timothy Stroebele
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How to Embed External Webpages into Polarion Wiki

How to Embed External Webpages into Polarion Wiki

March 31, 2009
Sometimes you may want to embed other web pages into a polarion wiki page. This may be the case if you want to embed existing wiki pages of other wiki systems you are currently using embed pag...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Free Subversion Training Localized in Portuguese

Free Subversion Training Localized in Portuguese

February 2, 2009
We are glad to announce the first localized version of our open source training materials for Subversion 1.5. Materials are available in Portuguese and can be downloaded here. http://www.polarion.or...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Log-Rotation for Apache

Log-Rotation for Apache

July 14, 2008
The following statement will enable log rotation for Apache. The command is specified for installation in a Windows system. Please check paths for you own installation. CustomLog "|C:/Polarion3.1.1/b...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Automatic redirect for SSL configuration

Automatic redirect for SSL configuration

July 14, 2008
If you switch on SSL, users have to type the URL beginning with https://<server name> /Polarion. If they miss the “https”, they will not reach the page. You can help your users with an automati...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Browse Polarion images

Browse Polarion images

July 14, 2008
The image folder is hidden in the Polarion installation. When you customize Polarion, you will need the images e.g. when you look up new icons for workflow states or work item types. To make them ea...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Hibernation of Windows and Polarion

Hibernation of Windows and Polarion

May 15, 2008
When you run Polarion for a while and want to hibernate your computer, sometimes you get the message "Insufficient System Resources Exist to Complete the API". This is typical the case on computers w...
By Timothy Stroebele
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How to Start Polarion as a Service

How to Start Polarion as a Service

May 15, 2008
To start Polarion as service you should perform following steps: Download the Windows XP Professional Ressource Kit. There is a version, which Microsoft request Money for it. I searched with Goog...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Integrating TortoiseSVN with Polarion ALM

Integrating TortoiseSVN with Polarion ALM

April 6, 2008
Personally I think Tortoise is the best subversion client which is currently available for windows. Additionally to its fantastic approach (just integrating into windows explorer instead of having an...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Exposing Work Items Inside the Polarion Wiki

Exposing Work Items Inside the Polarion Wiki

March 7, 2008
Polarion 3.0.3 Release is out. The new release ships with a hidden but quite interesting improvement of its wiki functionality. The feature is called "embedding of workitems inside wiki pages". Inste...
By Timothy Stroebele
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LivePlan – Tracking High Level Items

LivePlan – Tracking High Level Items

January 13, 2008
Sometimes people ask me how it is possible to track status of items that have been refined by subitems. Imagine having a change request that has been broken down into several tasks. In the following ...
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LivePlan – Links and Their Impact on Plans

LivePlan – Links and Their Impact on Plans

December 8, 2007
In the last blogs we spent quite some time to discuss how you plan items and how you can react on changes in your plan. However we did not use links in our plan. As many items have relationships it i...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Microsoft Office and Subversion (Part 2)

Microsoft Office and Subversion (Part 2)

November 15, 2007
In Part 1, we worked out how you access your documents located in a Subversion repository. In this part we will discuss several ideas how you could expose Subversion meta data, like version informati...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Microsoft Office and Subversion (Part 1)

Microsoft Office and Subversion (Part 1)

October 9, 2007
Prerequisites Good knowledge about Microsoft Windows and Windows Explorer Intermediate to good knowledge about Microsoft Office Access to an existing Subversion server instance with Autove...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Live Plan – Additional Fields

Live Plan – Additional Fields

August 13, 2007
In this blog I would like to finish the discussion on fields that have an impact on how items are planned in Polarion's liveplan. So let's have a look at the fields we have not covered yet. Due Date...
By Timothy Stroebele
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LivePlan – Managing Changes

LivePlan – Managing Changes

July 27, 2007
One problem of many plans is that they become outdated as soon as you are confronted with changes inside your project. What I like about Polarion is that you can embrace change. Change happens and ch...
By Timothy Stroebele
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How Live Planning Works – An Introduction

How Live Planning Works – An Introduction

July 6, 2007
In this months blog I would like to spend some time on how polarion’s liveplan feature works. Knowing this will help you to understand why polarion is organizing and planning items just the way it do...
By Timothy Stroebele
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Links between work items and their intended meaning

Links between work items and their intended meaning

May 25, 2007
One of the great things in Polarion is the possibility to link all kind of artefacts and work items together. As a result you are able to trace the impact of a change request down to the changes you ...
By Timothy Stroebele
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