PLANTA Customizer

 

Overview

 

Individual requirements to be met by the project management software can be accommodated quickly and flexibly on various levels. The system ensures that when there is a new version of software, any customer-specific modifications are retained.

 

 

 

Module Customizing

 

Module configuration

In configuring forms and reports too, the system has the latitude to cater for users' individual requirements. For this purpose, PLANTA offers a Module Customizer, with the help of which existing processing and analysis modules can be duplicated, and then adapted to individual requirements in the form of customer-specific modules. This ensures that when there is a release change the individual enhancements are retained. Module customizing can be carried out either by PLANTA or by the user organization itself. Doing so calls for no knowledge of programming. Modules are created and modified using a graphical development environment.

 

System Customizing

 

System customizing allows changes to be made in PLANTA system affecting the logic, data model and user interface. Because such changes have system-wide implications, system customizing is generally carried out by PLANTA or by one of the customer's system specialists.

 

Planning the customizing

 

Particularly where major modifications are involved, it is advisable to make precise plans, to ensure complete implementation and full documentation.

 

Model procedure for customizing

PLANTA's customizing procedure model shows all the steps required for successful implementation of an individual application.

 

After establishing a schedule for the introduction of the software, a general specification of the objective, the planning model, the users or user roles, plus the interfaces to other systems, is drawn up for the required PLANTA application. An adjustment of the standard data model against the required one will indicate whether all the data fields are already included, or whether the data tables need to be extended with the help of the system customizer. After the user roles and groups have been defined, together with the functions which they exercise and the data they process, then the processing and analysis modules, which are to be provided within the modules, are created with the appropriate menu items. The changes thus made are documented in an individual user manual, which also gives instructions on using the modules. An integration test ensures that the application which has been created is complete across all user roles. After successful trial operation with a few users, the individual application can then be released for all users.