Overview

Users of pulse™ are each given their own, customisable view of the pulse™ server. In addition to having a personal home page, users can also control their own settings, including user interface preferences and how and when they should be notified of build information by the pulse™ server.

Managing Preferences

Your personal settings can be accessed from the "preferences" tab.

Aliases

Aliases are required when your pulse™ username does not match your SCM username. In this case, you should add an alias in pulse™ that matches your SCM username. This will allow pulse™ to detect changes made by you, both for your "home" page, and for notifications.

UI Configuration

Configurable Views

Both your pulse™ home page and the browse view are configurable. On both pages, you can control the way information is layed out. On your home page you also have control of the sections shown and some of the details displayed.

Customising Build Columns

Aside from the home and browse pages, build results are displayed in tabular form. The columns in these tables may be configured for each separate view by clicking the columns icon in the top right corner of the corresponding table. This will pop up the build columns customisation window, which allows visible columns to be selected with checkboxes and reordered by dragging and dropping.

Content Refreshing

As the information displayed by pulse™ is constantly changing, many views support automatic content refreshing. The live part of the page will refresh at regular intervals to show the latest information. This refreshing can be customised using the "enable content refreshing" and "content refresh interval" preferences.

Contact Points and Subscriptions

Contact points and subscriptions allow you to control how and when the pulse™ server will notify you of build results. You can add an arbitrary number of contact points to define how you can be contacted (e.g. by providing an email address). You can then sign up for notifications by connecting a project with a contact point using a subscription. For more details, refer to the User Subscriptions page.

RSS Feeds Note that you can also subscribe to RSS Feeds for a project from any page within the project.