Customers running Spira v5.0 or v5.1 may experience an issue where the system will let you create test case folders that point to one of their children as parent. This causes an infinite loop which will break the system. This article provides a solution to fix the issue (though we recommend upgrading to v5.4 to prevent it happening in the future).
This article is obsolete.The infinite loop issue was fixed in later versions of Spira.
This articles provides the solution to the following error messages that you may receive in Spira if you have missing default project attachment types/folders for a project:
APPLICATION.Business.Attachment::Insert: Inflectra.SpiraTest.Business.ProjectDefaultAttachmentTypeException, Can't locate the default project attachment type for project XorAPPLICATION.Business.Attachment::Insert: Inflectra.SpiraTest.Business.ProjectDefaultAttachmentFolderException, Can't locate the default project folder for project X
This article is obsolete, since new versions of Spira have this issue already resolved and do not require any manual intervention to correct the possible error message.
Sometimes when you are saving Rapise test scripts into some early versions of Spira v4.2.x.x (e.g. Spira v4.2.0.1 - v4.2.0.5) you can start getting these errors on the Test Case details page. You may also get the error for other reasons in earlier versions of Spira v4.x.
In one of the training sessions on reporting, a request came up on how data in the XSLT can be sorted similar to ordering results using the ORDER BY clause in ESQL. Both ESQL and XSLT offer its own power which is beyond the scope of this article. But, this article explains a simple way to sort the folders and the tasks in these folders by filtering out the tasks in the root folder and filtering tasks that do not have a name filled in.