Projects (Testing environment) - An Overview

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Running a business can become complex as it grows. Bringing in new changes and enhancements is likely in any business process. While building new processes, it's always safer to test the changes before deploying them to the live environment, so that the new changes doesn't affect the existing processes. Qntrl offers Projects, a testing environment to test new automations and enhancements over the existing processes and improvize the business processes.

 

Need for testing environment in an Organization  

Hands-on experience before deploying a change in the live environment helps to keep the business sane. This helps to eliminate potential issues in the product that may arise after deployment of the new processes, thereby keeping the current process undisturbed.

 

Edition: This feature is supported in the Enterprise trial and Enterprise edition.  

 

Projects in Qntrl   

Projects in Qntrl lets you involve your organization users and developers create and test new processes or configurations.  Organizations can have multiple environments where they can test their new processes and make changes without affecting the existing processes. After testing the product, you can deploy it to the production environment and bring it live.

 

Important Terminologies in Projects   

Project	All existing processes will be stored in Projects
Sandbox	Empty portal that has no data
Live Queue	Changes made in the Project are waiting in Queue to be made live
Repository	Place where the changes are stored in the backend
Production environment	Live environment where the users are currently working
Saved changes	Changes that are stored in the repository
Unsaved changes	Changes that are made in the project but to be saved in the repository
Deployment logs	Helps to check if the backend process is completed and if there are any failures
Live Queue	After all the changes made in the Project are tested, the changes can be pushed to the Live Queue for the changes to be deployed to the production environment

 

Business scenarios 

Create and test a new board in Projects

A new team has been created in an organization and they would like to set up their own process. In such cases, the respective users can create the board in Projects (test environment), test their new board, then deploy it to the production environment.

Update an existing Business rule with a new criteria

An existing business rule has to be updated with another new condition where the admin wants to trigger an email to the developer when the card transition is Development in Progress and the transition owner is a developer. This can be tested in a Project before making the change in the production environment.

Check how a new custom function works

If a card is closed, you can set up a custom function to @ mention the card owner and comment a congratulations message on the card. 

Further Reading 

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Working with Projects 

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