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Setting Policies for Publishing Inventory Automatically in a Project

Code Insight provides the ability to automatically publish inventory without the need for an analyst to be involved. This feature supports a fully automated end-to-end process where there is no human analyst involvement. (For example, the auto-publish feature works in conjunction with workflow policies that automatically review inventory items as they are published, as described in Managing Policies to Automatically Review Inventory.) If there is a human analyst involved, the auto-publish feature can be turned off, allowing the analyst to publish the inventory manually after analysis.

The following configuration defines the auto-publish feature for scans and rescans performed on the current project. When the auto-publish feature is enabled for the project, additional options are made available to do the following:

  • Set the minimum inventory confidence level for publishing inventory.

  • Determine whether to automatically mark files associated with an auto-published inventory as “reviewed”.

  • Determine whether to publish inventories with undetermined licenses (that is, their selected License value is I don’t know).

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Aside from this configuration for project scans, the auto-publish feature is also automatically applied when you create an inventory item from the Project Inventory tab.

Initially after installation, the auto-publish feature and its related options are enabled (with the minimum inventory confidence level set to Medium). However, the Code Insight administrator can change these defaults at a global level for all projects. The Project Owner can override these settings at the project level.

To set the auto-publish feature, do the following:

  1. As the Project Administrator, navigate to the Summary tab (see Opening the Project Summary Tab).
  2. From the Manage Project menu, select Edit Project. The Edit Project window opens.
  3. Select the Scan Settings tab.
  4. Enable or disable Automatically publish system-created inventory items. When you enable this option, additional auto-publish options are made available for configuration. See Edit Project: Scan Settings Tab for a description these options.
  5. When you have set the auto-publish feature, click Save. The Summary tab is opened.