Working with scans

Triggering scans

From the Quality Clouds for Salesforce app, you can launch full scans and branch scans - both full and branch. 

→ To trigger a scan

  1. In Quality Clouds app in Salesforce, go to Instances section.
  2. Choose the instance for which you want to launch a scan, and click View

    You can see all your instances with Feature Branch scans by checking the Feature Branch column check.

  3. Click Trigger Scan
    • For feature branch scans, add the name of the feature branch you want to scan. 

You have now launched a scan. The scan details will be available as soon as the scan has finished successfully.

The scan now appears in the Scan section with the state RUNNING

The scan status will change from RUNNING to SUCCESS or ERROR, depending on the result. You can check the state by clicking Update


Viewing scan results

You can check the scan results for each scans you've run. 

For full scans

For full instance scans or full branch scans, you can only see the high level results, such as scan date, result, and the most important KPIs:

  • Quality of Cloud
  • Total issues 
  • Technical debt
  • Configuration elements

→ To view the full scan result

  1. From the Instances section, select the instance you want to see scan results for, and click View
  2. In the Scans section, click View in View Detail.

A Scan Details page opens with high level scan information.

You can see detailed scan results in the Quality Clouds portal at https://portal.qualityclouds.com/.


For feature branch scans

For feature branch scans, you can see the full scan results with detailed issue view. 

→ To view feature branch scan results

  1. From the Instances section, select the instance you want to see scan results for, and click View
  2. In the Scans section, click View in View Detail.

A Scan Details page opens with high level scan information, and all the Issues information.

You can now go directly to your code element by clicking Go to element, or see detailed issue information, by clicking Issue Detail.

The users defined in the Quality Clouds admin site as recipients of feature branch scan results will also receive an email with the issues detected in the scan. 




Last modified on Jun 18, 2020