{"id":701,"date":"2011-04-27T11:38:36","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kovair.com\/blog\/?p=701"},"modified":"2011-04-27T11:38:36","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T11:38:36","slug":"from-the-desk-of-the-ceo-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kovair.com\/blogs\/from-the-desk-of-the-ceo-april-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Desk of the CEO \u2013 April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dear Reader<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

I am writing this note in the new ambience of our office headquarters in Santa Clara, the heart of Silicon Valley. After several years in Milpitas we have moved!<\/p>\n

I am happy to share with you as announced in a recent press release that Kovair and nSolutions have forged a partnership for enhancing Kovair ITSM Configuration Management DataBase automation with nSolutions Nova product line. This integrated product will provide customers with automated, ITIL-compatible IT Service Management with real time visibility and control of the IT infrastructure through NOVA. Please check out the March press release.<\/p>\n

In this issue, we have featured an article by Amit Dasgupta, one of our Engineering Managers. The article titled \u201cMulti-edit List Interface \u2013 Support for in-place edit of Grid Field\u201d explains the useful features of Kovair\u2019s list interface.<\/p>\n

Continuing with our series of successful webinars, we are organizing yet another useful webinar on integration of best-of \u2013breed tools with Visual Studio and TFS, on April 13 and 14. If you as a user or potential acquirer of these Microsoft tools are grappling with the issue of integration with other ALM tools you own, this webinar will show you a path. Registration links are provided at the end of the newsletter.
\nHappy Reading!<\/p>\n

Multi-edit List Interface – Support for in-place edit of Grid Field<\/h2>\n

Kovair Entity Framework supports several rich field types. Grid field is one of them, extensively used by our customers who love the power and usefulness of this field structure in capturing entity data. Grid field is a composite field structure that allows multi-row data input. Let\u2019s take an example of Requirement Entity where multiple reviewers will review the same set of requirements and approve these individually. Kovair allows you defining a grid field attribute \u201cReview Results\u201d to record the review inputs like Reviewed By, Review Date, Review Decision (Approved\/ Discarded), Review Score and Review Comment for each reviewer about each individual requirement. Reviewers can easily open up individual requirement, record their review feedbacks and see others\u2019 responses based on access permissions. When the reviewer needs to review hundreds of requirements at the same time, opening up each requirement separately and capturing review outcome may be tedious, time consuming and inefficient.<\/p>\n

Kovair has come up with an effective list interface to work on hundreds of items simultaneously and deal with customer scenarios as above. Reviewers will be able to review multiple requirements at the same time and record their feedbacks from a single list interface using its useful features listed below.<\/p>\n