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T37

General Concepts

T37.1

Describes basic change control concepts

Defines change control as a concept; Discusses the benefits of change control and the risks of not having it; Defines source control alone and in the context of change control; Names tips for successful use of change control

T37.2

Describes change control with InterSystems

Describes change control tools used within InterSystems including CCR and Perforce

T37.3

Describes CCR and its main concepts

Defines CCR First Principles; Identifies the workflow order between the 4 possible CCR Primary environments; Defines the term CCR Transport and describes the movement of changes between environments, CCR, and Perforce; Defines the terms Perforce branch, Item and ItemSet; Describes CCR Usage Tiers and gives examples

T37.4

Performs basic tasks in CCR

Navigates the CCR homepage, main menu, and main pages; Accesses documentation and FAQs; Defines the terms State, Phase, and Transition

T38

CCR Tier 0

T38.1

Progresses a Tier 0 CCR

Defines the terms Organization, Responsible Organization, Site Code, System, and System Code; Creates a Tier 0 CCR Record; Describes use of fields available when creating a CCR; Documents every state from In_PREP to Closed in a BASE-TEST-LIVE workflow including peer reviews; Performs the markPREPComplete transition; Identifies the workflow for failPeerReview; Performs the markAcceptanceFailed; Describes markValidationFailed transition, including best practices; Describes the importance of Peer Reviews; Describes the importance of closing CCRs; Implements and tests changes in correct states of the workflow; Locates and uses CCR Transition History; Uses the <env> token in URLs

T38.2

Uses Auxiliary Tools and Transitions

Reassigns CCRs; Describes the effect of Peer Review routing configuration options including System Architects and Default Peer Reviewers; Performs merge transitions and interprets results; Performs cancel transitions and interprets results

T39

CCR Transport

T39.1

Describes CCR Transport Basics

Describes CCR Client Tools and updates them; Describes CCR Transport workflows for disconnected environments, including uploading ItemSets from BASE to CCR and deploying ItemSets from CCR to TEST/LIVE; Deploys ItemSets using best practices; Describes the automatic preview integration on passPeerReview transition; Identifies states and transitions with possible Perforce and/or ItemSet activity; Uses CCR Transport best practices including the importance of canceling CCRs properly

T39.2

Describes CCR Transport Tools and terminology in the CCR Record

Defines the term changelist; Locates and identifies available meta data for submitted changes; Logs into Perforce in CCR; Describes diff chunks and merge conflicts; Finds and interprets list of ItemSets associated with a CCR; Describes the source workplace; Defines and identifies the importance of baselining

T39.3

Describes CCR best practices and debugging techniques

Uses Catch-up CCRs; Uses the revision history; Locates and interprets error messages; Uses transport log to find more information about an error; Identifies cause and solution for merge conflicts; Identifies cause and solution for misalignment; Back out of changes; Identifies and describes how to resolve errors in bundle and upload validation; Describes options if uploaded to wrong CCR

T40

CCR Tier 1

T40.1

Uses Tier 1 CCRs to safely progress changes made in an IDE

Identifies when to checkout items; Uses Source Control Menu in an IDE to checkout, add, diff, and revert changes; Describes the workflow for bundle and upload ItemSet; Identifies how and when to deploy ItemSets in workflow; Identifies key differences between Tier 0 and Tier 1 CCRs in documentation and workflow

T40.2

Uses ImplementCCR routines, CCR event handlers for automating deployment

Identifies use cases for an ImplementCCR routines and CCR event handlers; Creates an implement CCR routine using the correct naming convention

T40.3

Uses %buildccr functions in code

Identifies and uses %buildccr functions in code

T40.4

Describes key considerations for working with interoperability components and CCR

Describes best practices for code shared across namespaces; Solves necessary differences between environments

T40.5

Demonstrates how to use Management Portal Source Control hooks for interoperability components

Uses system default settings; Identifies interoperability components with Management Portal hooks; Identifies and describes Management Portal hook menus; Describes procedure for working with Productions v2019.4+ and pre-v2019.4; Describes additional considerations for productions v2019.4+ (temporarily start/stop/restart components, undo, color coding for source of values); Works with items that are exportable but do not have Management Portal hooks; Works with items that are available in Studio but do not have Management Portal hooks

T40.6

Identifies key considerations for CCR workflows in HealthShare

Describes use cases for secondary environments; Identifies components of HealthShare that can be maintained in source control; Identifies difficulties of working with HealthShare configuration and settings; Describes how to work with HealthShare Patient Index linkage definitions

T40.7

Effectively and safely uses secondary environments

Describes behavior of secondary environments; Deploys ItemSets to secondary environments; Identifies configuration options for secondary BASE environments