Crucible 2.8 : Using the Dashboard

The Dashboard is the first screen that you see when you log into FishEye/Crucible. It is the home page for the instance and can be accessed by clicking the FishEye/Crucible icon , or by clicking the 'Dashboard' tab at the top.

Screenshot: Viewing the Dashboard

The Dashboard itself has a sidebar displaying your reviews and an activity in the main pane.

Using the 'My Reviews' Sidebar

The 'My Reviews' sidebar contains information about reviews/snippets that you are involved with, e.g. how many reviews require your approval. Read more about the sidebar in Browsing All Reviews.

  • Click on any of the links in the sidebar to navigate to that information in the 'Reviews' tab of the Dashboard.
  • Hover your mouse over the sidebar and click the collapse icon () to hide any of the sections. Click the expand icon () to expand any collapsed sections.
  • Click the 'i' icon () to hide/show the entire sidebar.

'Inbox'

Click to show all reviews in 'To Review', 'To Summarize', 'In Draft' and 'Require My Approval' states:

  • 'To Review' — Click to show all reviews where you are a reviewer and haven't yet completed your review work.
  • 'To Summarize' — Click to show all reviews where you are a moderator and haven't yet summarised and closed the review.
  • 'In Draft' — Click to show all reviews that you have created but have not yet been moved to the 'Approval' state or the 'Require Approval' state.
  • 'Require My Approval' — Click to show all reviews where you are a moderator and need to approve the review.

'Outbox'

Click to show all reviews in 'Out for Review' and 'Completed' states"

  • 'Out for Review' — Click to show all reviews that you are a participant of, that have review work that is yet to be completed by other reviewers.
  • 'Completed' — Click to show all reviews that you are a participant of, and have been completed.

'Archive'

Click to show all reviews in 'Closed' and 'Abandoned' states:

  • 'Closed' — Click to show all reviews that you are a participant of, that have been summarised and closed.
  • 'Abandoned' — Click to show all reviews that you are a participant of, that have been abandoned. You may wish to delete these reviews.

'My Open Snippets'

Click to show all open snippets created by you.

'My Snippets'

Click to show all snippets created by you.

Using the Activity Stream

The Dashboard has an activity stream that displays the following information:

  • reviews activity — This includes the addition of review comments, opening and closing reviews, etc.
  • source activity — This includes files being committed to a repository.
  • issues activity — If you have linked a JIRA server with your Crucible project, the activity stream will also include updates to linked JIRA issues.

Your activity stream will only display information from projects, reviews, people, repositories, etc, that you have selected as favourites as well as your own activity. For more information on favourites, see Using Favourites.

The following instructions describe how to view the activity stream and filter it to display specific information.

  • 'Commits' tab — See Browsing Source Activity only below.
  • 'Reviews' tab — See Browsing Reviews Activity only below.
    *'Issues' tab — This tab will only display if you have connected a JIRA instance to your FishEye/Crucible instance. See Browsing Issues Activity only below.
  • 'Show My Activity' checkbox — Untick this checkbox to filter out your activity from the activity stream displayed. This toggle can be used in any of the tabs for the activity stream.

Browsing Source Activity only

Source activity includes files commits to repositories that you have selected as favourites.

Click the 'Commits' tab to filter the activity stream to display only source activity (see screenshot below).

Browsing Source Activity on the Dashboard

Browsing Reviews Activity only

Reviews activity includes updates to reviews in all projects that you have selected as favourites. See Browsing All Reviews for more information about browsing reviews.

Click the 'Reviews' tab to filter the activity stream to display only reviews activity (see screenshot below).

Browsing Reviews Activity on the Dashboard

Browsing Issues Activity only

Issues activity includes updates to issues in JIRA projects that are associated with your favourite Crucible projects. For more information about integrating JIRA with Crucible, see JIRA Integration in Crucible.

Click the 'Issues' tab to filter the activity stream to display only issues activity (see screenshot below).

Browsing Issues Activity on the Dashboard

Watching an Activity Stream

You can "watch" an activity stream in FishEye/Crucible. Watching the activity stream allows you to receive emails when updates occur in the activity stream. You can view all of your watches and configure the frequency of your watch emails in your user profile. See Changing your User Profile for more information.

Note, the option to add a watch will only be available if the administrator has enabled watches for the repository.

To watch an activity stream:

  1. Navigate to the activity stream that you want to watch.
  2. Click the 'Tools' menu and click 'Watch'. The page will reload and a watch will be set up for the activity stream (the watch icon will be coloured, not grey).
    • If you want to remove the watch, navigate the activity stream, click the 'Tools' menu and click 'Watch'. The watch will be removed (the watch icon will be coloured, not grey).
      (info) You can also remove watches via your user profile.

Notes

Related Topics

Browsing All Reviews
Using Favourites
Changing your User Profile

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