Viewing Application Recommendations

If you are a Service Administrator, you can view recommendations on how to optimize your application, such as running metadata validation. The Recommendations list includes the Priority, Category, Artifact, Type, Recommendation Details, instructions on How to Resolve, Status, Created date and time, Comment and Actions.

The Recommendations list displays the status for recommendations:

  • Open
  • Dismissed

Recommendations

Note that recommendations that are 60 days old and without any modifications are purged.

These options are available for recommendations:

  • Search — Search recommendations, for example enter "metadata" to display all the metadata recommendations.
  • Filter — Filter the list of recommendations, for example, filter by Priority (High, Medium, Low). You can also create additional filters, for example, enter a range of dates that recommendations were created.
  • Dismiss — Dismiss a recommendation that you do not want to apply. Enter a comment for the recommendation that you dismiss. After a recommendation is dismissed, the status changes to Dismissed.
  • Reopen — Reopen a dismissed recommendation. After a recommendation is reopened, its status changes to Open.
  • Export — Export recommendation information to a CSV file.
  • Rescan — Create a job that runs in the background to update the database with the latest recommendations. You can view the status of the rescan job from the Job console, then click Refresh to refresh the list on the Recommendations page. The page also includes a timestamp that shows the last date and time the rescan process was run.

To view application recommendations:

  1. Click Application, and select Recommendations.
  2. To update the database with the latest recommendations, click the More Actions ellipsis button Ellipses and click Rescan. The rescan is launched as a job and can take a while based on the amount of data. You can view the status in the Jobs console.
  3. Click Refresh to refresh the list of recommendations and update the Last Scanned On date and time.
  4. Optional: To search for recommendations, in the Search box, enter full or partial search criteria for the recommendation and press Enter.
  5. Optional: To filter recommendations, select a category on which to filter. To create additional filters, click More Filters and enter filter criteria.
  6. Optional: To dismiss a recommendation that you do not want to apply, click the Actions ellipsis button Ellipses next to the recommendation, select Dismiss, enter a comment, then click Confirm.
  7. Optional: To reopen a dismissed recommendation, click the Actions ellipsis button Ellipses next to the recommendation, select Reopen, then click Confirm.
  8. Optional: To export all recommendation messages to a CSV file, from the More Actions ellipsis button Ellipses, click Export, select Save File, then click OK. Select a location in which to save the file, and click Save.

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