Editing advisories and fix recommendations

About this task

You can change the text that appears in the Advisory and Fix Recommendation tabs of the scan results for a test (see Advisory tab). (When you do this the edited file is saved in .xml format on your computer. The exact location is configured in Tools | Options | Preferences Tab, see Preferences tab.) The Advisory and the Fix Recommendation text are stored in the same file. (You can restore the original text at any time using the Reset to Default button.)

Note: If your scan is sent to another computer, the original, default advisory for the issue, and not your edited advisory, will be displayed (unless you send the .xml file to the other computer, and have the user save it to the Custom Advisories folder of that computer; see Preferences tab).
Note: If HCL releases an updated version of an advisory/fix recommendation that you have edited, the updated version will not appear in your AppScan® interface (unless you discard the changes you made by clicking the Reset to Default button).

Procedure

  1. Select the required test.

    The advisory and fix recommendation for the selected test appear in the lower pane.



  2. Click the Edit icon above the Advisory tab. (The advisory and fix recommendations for any particular test are stored in the same file. Therefore it does not matter which of the two tabs is on top when you click Edit.)

    The advisory file is opened in the embedded XML editor.

  3. Edit the text as required, then click OK.
    Note: If you use invalid XML syntax, or tags that are not part of the advisory file schema, a warning appears and the changes are not saved.

    The XML Editor closes, and the changes appear in the current advisory.