Overview

Change Viewers are used to link from changes displayed in pulse™ to an external changelist viewer such as ViewVC. This allows integration of pulse™ with other systems, allowing easy browsing of change information. Viewers can link to some or all of the following:

• Changelist views: the changelist number/identifier in pulse™ is linked to the change view in the external viewer
• File views: changed files have links to the file view at the corresponding revision
• File downloads: changed files have links to the download the raw file at the corresponding revision
• File diffs: changed files have links to the file diff view for the corresponding change

Currently, there is built-in support for Fisheye, P4Web, Trac and ViewVC. You can also configure a custom viewer if your external tool is not directly supported.

Custom Viewers

A custom change viewer is used to link to a system that is not directly supported by pulse™. To configure a custom viewer, you can supply the URLs for the features your external tool supports, and leave any unsupported links blank. When configuring the URLs, various properties are made available (referenced using the $(<property name>) syntax), allowing you to reference details of the file and/or revision being linked from. For information about the available properties, refer to the documentation panel in the pulse™ web interface.