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How to Start Polarion as a Service

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…


Integrating TortoiseSVN with Polarion ALM

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…


Exposing Work Items Inside the Polarion Wiki

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…


LivePlan – Tracking High Level Items

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 …


LivePlan – Links and Their Impact on Plans

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…


Microsoft Office and Subversion (Part 2)

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…


Microsoft Office and Subversion (Part 1)

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…


Live Plan – Additional Fields

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…


LivePlan – Managing Changes

One problem of many plans is that they become outdated as soon as you are confronted with changes inside your project.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…