Spira Apps are dedicated extensions that address specific use cases, allowing you to customize the Spira platform to fit your industry, methodology, or workflow requirements. By adding niche features to your Spira instance, you ensure that you’re always working with the most relevant and effective tools.
What Can Spira Apps Do?
Spira can be used in various ways throughout the platform:
- Toolbar Integration: They can appear as buttons with dropdown menus in the toolbars on artifact list and detail pages, next to built-in toolbar buttons.
- Artifact Lists: They can be displayed in a dedicated column on lists of artifacts.
- Widgets: They can be added as widgets on product home pages and reporting home pages.
- Background Operations: This Apps can operate behind the scenes on artifact detail pages, responding automatically to user actions.
Range of Functionalities
Spira offer a range of functionalities:
- Dynamic Links: Provide users with dynamic links to relevant resources.
- Pop-up Information: Show pop-ups to present information or choices to users.
- External Communication: Securely communicate with external services (like CI/CD tools) to trigger builds or tests.
- Event Responses: Respond to events, such as saving or creating an artifact, to update fields automatically based on pre-configured rules.
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Some Spira Apps may utilize just one of these features, while others may incorporate multiple functionalities and be available across different sections of the application.
Why Spira Apps?
The Spira platform is a comprehensive, integrated solution for software development, testing, and management. However, different industries and methodologies require specific features that go beyond the core system. Spira bridge this gap, providing a seamless way to add industry-specific, methodology-driven, or workflow-oriented features to your Spira instance.
