This page is shown in Figure 1 and shows all the information relating to the selected dependency.
Figure 1 – Dependency view page
The viewing screen allows you to edit or delete this dependency. From here, you can also attach documents or comments to this dependency. Some details of the dependency are displayed just below the top header area in subsections, such as the dependency’s location within Psoda, it’s description, impact and impact areas, as well as any workflow information where you may be permitted to request or authorise a state transition. The rest of the page is made up of a number of tabs or sections (depending on your selected view):Attachments
This tab shows an asset listing of all of the attachments that have been added to this dependency, as shown in Figure 2. By default, this table will present you with a number of details about the attachments such as the file’s name, attachment type, view the version and access a download link. From the Actions column of this attachments table, you can act on individual attachments by editing, deleting, moving or locking/unlocking the selected attachment.Figure 2 – Dependency attachments tab
Note that you can customise your table view by clicking the edit button at the bottom of the attachment table or navigate to this same spot to add more attachments to this dependency. Here, you can also export this attachment list to Excel or CSV files. At the very bottom of this tabbed view, you have the option to add more attachments by utilising the drag and drop functionality to drag the files you wish to upload into the drop box (note that this function works in HTML5 compliant browsers only).Comments
This tab shows an asset listing of all of the comments that users have made on this dependency, as shown in Figure 3. By default, this table will present you with a number of details about the comments such as, the date that this comment was last updated, who created the comment, the comment itself and any associated tags to name a few. From the Actions column of this comments table, you can act on individual comments by editing or deleting the selected comment.Figure 3 – Dependency comments tab
Note that you can customise your table view by clicking the edit button at the bottom of the comment table or navigate to this same spot to add more comments to this dependency. Here, you can also export this comment list to Excel or CSV files.Details
Figure 4 – Dependency details tab
This tab shows some additional details of the dependency, for example the description, impact and change flags, as shown in Figure 4.
History
This tab shows shows some basic history of the dependency, as shown in Figure 5. By default, this tab will present you with a number of details about the dependency’s history such as the creation date, creation user, last update date and last update user. If the dependency has been changed then this section will also show a table of all the changes that has been made, including the date of each change, the field changed, the value before the change and the user who made the change.Figure 5 – Dependency history tab
Note that you can customise your change table view by clicking the edit button at the bottom of the change table. Here, you can also export this list of changes to Excel or CSV files.