Central Quick Reference

You may already be familiar with our back-office management tool, Central. Central has a variety of functions that will assist you with Caliper SDK development and management of your extensions in all environments.

Get Central

Please request access to Central from your administrator for staging (often called “permanent test”) and production.

You can also connect Central to your shared dev environment in AWS. Download Central here:

Note

  • Ensure your machine has .NET Framework 4.5.1

  • Unzip the Central.exe file to C:\Q2Central. You must install the exe into the C: drive

Change the API to https://stack.q2developer.com/sdk/<new client name>/hq/BackOffice.asmx where <new client name> is the name of your stack. Your credentials will be the same as those used to connect to HQ. Type q2 inspect to view them.

Adding Groups

For your Caliper SDK forms, you will likely want to limit access to certain groups. Generally, a group will NOT have access to a new form by default and you will need to grant that access to your test user’s group.

Go to the groups menu and double-click the group your test user is in to access the “Preferences” tab.

In that tab, you will see a list of forms. Scroll to the bottom and you should see your new form, and can enable it for that group.

Adding Navigation

If your extension needs to be added to the navigation menu, we will add it during deployment.

Once deployed, you can enable the new nav item by activating it in Central using the Features tab for the Group.