5.1 What’s Happening Overview

The What’s Happening panel in the Dashboard displays key planning events for workloads on the current date, a specified period, or a custom day or period. Users can easily see and do the important tasks for the day or an upcoming date, without performing navigation or complex queries.

Figure 5-1 Project View of What’s Happening This Week

What’s Happening identifies common events, such as:

  • The <Project, Wave, Batch, or Workload> start date has arrived.

  • The <Project, Wave, or Batch> is scheduled to be completed today.

  • The workload should be cut over manually today.

  • The workload will be cut over automatically today.

  • The workload will be submitted to a Migration Server today to begin preliminary configuration. Replication begins in {3} days.

  • The completed workload job will be deleted from the Migration Server today.

Table 5-1 identifies actions available to customize the events that are displayed. You can filter the events for specified a project, wave, and batch by using the controls at the top of the Dashboard. If you have roles on multiple projects, the Project field allows you select which project’s information to display. If you have a role on a single project, the Project field and Project Selector settings are static.

Table 5-1 Actions for What’s Happening

Options

Action

Date

Choose from the following predefined periods, or set a custom period:

  • Today

  • Yesterday

  • Tomorrow

  • This week (default)

  • Last week

  • Next week

  • This month

  • Last month

  • Next month

  • Custom

    Select Custom, then click the Calendar icon to open a calendar tool for selecting the From and To dates of interest.

Your Date setting for What’s Happening persists across sessions. A Custom setting persists as Custom with From and To dates that correspond to the This Week option.

NOTE:Dates are based on the time zone of the PlateSpin Transformation Manager server.

Open

Select an object, then click Open to go to the related page or dialog.

View URL

Pause over the Name of the object to view the page-specific part of the URL in a tooltip.

Filter

Type characters in the Search field to find the object of interest.