The ACT Community is an online environment that enables Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) users to join and then anonymously share issue and solution data with other registered ACT users. Additionally, once you join, you can view overall statistics for specific applications, as provided by other community members.
Benefits of the ACT Community
The ACT Community enables you to:
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Share compatibility data (including issues, severity rankings, priority rankings, and solutions) with other registered ACT users.
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Receive the most complete issue and solution data from both authoritative and user data sources. Only ACT Community members can view how other registered ACT users ranked these applications.
Common Scenarios
The following sections describe common ACT Community scenarios.
Sharing Issues and Solutions with Other Users
The ACT Community enables you to join and to download compatibility issue data from other registered users. This data includes severity ranking, priority ranking, and solutions. At the same time, your compatibility data is uploaded for other registered ACT users to view.
Viewing User Data
The ACT Community enables you to view how other registered ACT users ranked specific software. This can be done from the Community Assessment column of the Analyze screen of the Application Compatibility Manager. Only ACT Community members can view this data.
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Your issues and solutions will appear with the following text in the Provider and Subprovider columns of the Issues tab of the <Application_Name> dialog box and the <Web_Site_URL> dialog box, depending on who provided the issues and solutions. |
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Compatibility Evaluator | <Evaluator_Name>, such as IECE |
Community | Anonymous |
My Issues | My Issues |
Technologies Related to ACT Community
The following sections describe the technologies related to ACT Community.
Application Compatibility Manager
The Application Compatibility Manager works with the ACT Community to provide reports about compatibility data, including those from ACT Community members. You have the ability to review the community data on the application-related screens in the Application Compatibility Manager. This includes:
- Application Report screen. On this screen, you can view the community data in the Community Assessment column, where the green checkmark represents the number of users for which the application works, the yellow exclamation mark represents the number of users for which the application works, but has issues, and the red x represents the number of users for which the application does not work.
- <Application_Name> dialog box. In this dialog box, you can view the community data as a pie chart, with green representing the number of users for which the application works, yellow representing the number of users for which the application works, but has issues, and red representing the number of users for which the application does not work.
ACT Community Dependencies
The following sections describe the ACT Community dependencies.
Microsoft Compatibility Exchange
To upload and to download compatibility data, the ACT Community uses the Microsoft Compatibility Exchange, which consists of the ACT Web Service and the Application Profile database.
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