Connecting to Helix QAC Dashboard

Data is uploaded to, or downloaded from Helix QAC Dashboard, via a Helix QAC Dashboard connection, for which you need a logon. Each user should have a unique logon for Helix QAC Dashboard, both for licensing reasons and because Helix QAC Dashboard has a permissions scheme that allows administrators to control the entitlements given to individual users (generally you will need "Project Admin Rights" to create a project and "Upload" rights to upload to an existing project). If you do not have a logon, ask your Helix QAC Dashboard administrator to create an account for you.

To log on to Helix QAC Dashboard, select the Connect to Helix QAC Dashboard option from the Dashboard menu (or click the icon on the toolbar).

This brings up a connection dialog, where you should enter the address of the Helix QAC Dashboard server, and your credentials.

The Helix QAC Dashboard server address is the same as the one you would use to access Helix QAC Dashboard through a browser. Your Helix QAC Dashboard administrator should have the details. The default port number is 8080, but this can be different on different sites if this clashes with another application, or violates a security policy.

You can ask for the details to be remembered, to simplify your next logon. For security reasons, the password will not be stored. The dialog will store the history of previous connection details, which simplifies the logon process if you access different Helix QAC Dashboard servers for different projects.

Connection details are stored separately for each user on the machine. Other users will not be able view your logon credentials.

Once the logon details have been entered, click Connect. For QA·GUI, the connection status will be shown in the bottom right hand corner of the main screen. Two error codes are shown if the connection attempt fails: the first error code is a Qt error code; and the second error code is derived from the HTTP standard error code system.

Clicking on this connection status area at any time also brings up the connection dialog.

Some Helix QAC Dashboard menu items will remain disabled until a successful connection is made. If you have a successful connection and some menu items continue to remain disabled then the account you are using to connect to Helix QAC Dashboard does not have permissions to perform these actions.

If you connect from Helix QAC to Helix QAC Dashboard from a second machine, the connection from the first machine will be broken. You can, however, have simultaneous connections from Helix QAC and from a browser (which is the standard way of accessing Helix QAC Dashboard).