An app

An app allows for the combination of data from more than one source into a single integrated page within CA Agile Central. CA Agile Central allows you to use your own custom app code and provides a catalog of managed apps.

allows for the combination of data from more than one source into a single, integrated page

A location in CA Agile Central under any of the main navigation pages, that provides summary views of work item data. You can also create custom pages under CA Agile Central tabs. Custom pages are used to host one or many apps and can be copied, shared, and customized.

within CA Agile Central. CA Agile Central offers custom apps and managed apps. A catalog of managed apps is available to CA Agile Central users. These managed apps can be easily installed in custom pages within CA Agile Central, or on your dashboard.

Custom apps combine the information you have stored in CA Agile Central with HTML, JavaScript

A software development language that can interact with HTML to deliver various web-based content. Custom CA Agile Central applications can be written in javascript.

, and an API to render and manipulate data to suit your specific needs.

Extending CA Agile Central using apps includes the following:

• Apps Not In Agile Central to Go
• Create a Custom Page and Add Apps
• Edit Custom Page Settings
• App Basics
• Custom Apps
• Community App Catalog
• Subscription App Catalog
• App Catalog
• Related Topics

Apps Not In Agile Central to Go

The following apps are not available to Agile Central to Go customers because they use Lookback API:

• Cycle Time Chart (Community)
• Cycle Time Data (Community)
• Milestone Burnup
• Milestone Cumulative Flow
• Portfolio Item

  A CA Agile Central work item type used to capture high-level features and initiatives. A top-level portfolio item may consist of several smaller portfolio items, each of which consist of several user stories. Available with the CA Agile Central Portfolio Manager product.

  Burnup
• Portfolio Item Cumulative Flow
• Portfolio Item Scope

  The primary project that you have designated as your focus within the current workspace, as well as related parent and child projects that you have included in focus. See project picker.

  Change Chart (Community)
• Project

  A container for a set of releases and iterations, and their related user stories and tasks. In CA Agile Central, it is helpful to think of projects as work areas for teams. When using CA Agile Central Portfolio Manager, projects represent either work areas for portfolio and product managers or work areas for teams.

  Cumulative Flow
• PSI

  Potentially Shippable Increment. A timebox, usually 10 weeks, in which a PSI of features is developed.

  Feature

  An improvement or capability of value to a stakeholder that can be developed in a PSI or release timebox (usually 10-12 weeks).

  Burnup (Community)
• Release

  A timebox where work occurs in support of an internal or external delivery of a working, tested version of the system or software. In scrum, a release consists of multiple iterations to deliver new system code.

  & Iteration

  A theme-driven timebox of requests to be worked on and accepted within a release of a product; it is defined in an iteration planning meeting and is completed with an iteration demo and review meeting. The terms iteration and sprint are used synonymously.

  Burndown

  A type of chart that shows work remaining over time. Burndown is a compound word, the correct spelling, and industry standard. Burn down refers to arson.

• Super Customizable CFD (Community)

Learn more.

Create a Custom Page and Add Apps

Create a custom page

A user-generated page that displays in CA Agile Central. Custom pages may contain a CA Agile Central catalog app, a custom app built by a user, a dashboard page, or the contents of another webpage. Custom pages may be installed by a single user or shared with all users of a workspace.

containing managed and custom apps with HTML or JavaScript to display reports, graphs, and other information:

1. In the tab

   A main navigation heading in CA Agile Central. Each tab contains several pages, which display various data. CA Agile Central tabs are My Home, Plan, Track, Quality, Portfolio Items, and Reports.

   where you want to create a custom page, select the + link.
   
2. Enter a Name for the custom page and select Save. Your new custom page displays.
   
3. Select a page layout option. You can always change this setting later.
4. Select the Start adding apps link.
   
5. Search or use the Source or Category filters to locate an app from the App Catalog window and select Add.
   Note: Shift+select Add to keep the catalog open after adding an app.
   

   You can display the apps in a list or by tiles, using the view results toggle:

   

Edit Custom Page Settings

Use selections from the Actions gear menu to add additional apps to the page, share the page with other users in the workspace

An organizational construct within a CA Agile Central subscription representing independent departments that contains work items, projects, and settings. Data cannot span from one workspace to another. CA Agile Central strongly recommends you limit the number of workspaces you create.

, copy the page, or change the layout:

Learn more about working with custom pages.

App Basics

Use the gear icon at the top of each app to adjust settings or remove the app.

Move Apps

Select the top bar of the app and drag the app into one of the columns. You can drag the app above or below any app that is currently in the column you are moving it to.

View Full Screen

You can run apps in full screen. To run an app in full screen, select the full screen icon in the top bar of the app.

Edit Settings

Each app has its own settings menu. Select the gear icon at the top of the app and select Settings.

Use the Project section to select which projects to collect data from. The Follow Global Project Setting option will use the settings from the Project drop-down.

The options present in the settings menu will vary based on the app. To view available settings and features for an app, select the name in the App Catalog to navigate to the app's help page.

Delete Apps

Select the gear icon at the top of the app and select Delete App.

Build Custom Queries

Custom List and other apps provide the Query field

Synonymous with attribute. Fields represent a named property of a work item. A field has a type that defines the entry of its instances, such as drop-down lists, text fields, and boolean.

in the settings menu. With this field, you can build custom queries that filter work items

Items which help define the project, or team objective. Work items in CA Agile Central are user stories, tasks, portfolio items, test cases, test sets, test case results, defects, and defect suites.

based on entries in various fields.

Learn more about building custom queries.

View Custom Code

Use the Custom HTML app to host custom app code. To view your custom source code for further editing and troubleshooting, select the gear icon at the top of a Custom HTML app and select View Source.

Adjust App Height

To increase or decrease the vertical size of an app, select and drag the gripper icon at the bottom of of the pane:

Some apps, such as boards and custom apps, can automatically adjust the vertical space to display all visible data.

To enable this setting:

1. Select the gear icon at the top of the app and select Settings.
2. In the app settings menu, select the Auto Height checkbox.

Custom Apps

The CA Agile Central app catalog also contains customizable apps. You can install these apps to manipulate CA Agile Central data, use your own custom code, or access external web resources.

Install the Custom HTML app from the catalog to insert your own custom HTML or Javascript code:

Install the Custom List (formerly Custom Grid) app to sort and filter CA Agile Central data in a grid-based format.

The Query field in the app settings menu provides you with the ability to filter the data with SQL-style queries through the CA Agile Central Web Services API.

Install the Custom URL app to view external web resources or websites within a custom page:

Related Topics

  
Use Dashboards, Custom Pages, and Apps (9 Min)

• CA Agile Central App SDK: Create your own custom features and apps.
• Create Custom Pages
• App Catalog
• Customize Your Dashboard