TargetProcess v.2.23.3

Release Comments
May 032012

This release is quite small and boring. The good thing is that now you can setup email notifications for each process independently.

Features

  • Process-specific email notifications
  • Test Runs: optional grouping by User Story
  • Generate and send credentials to users (for Admin only), mass users delete

Fixed Bugs

  • Sorting by Summary column breaks custom reports
  • Not able to add a new project if there’s a Rich Text custom field for Project in the default Process
  • Bugzilla: PluginData folder not cleared when the profile is deleted
  • Incorrect custom field values set if a Request is moved/copied to a Project with another Process
  • Attachments are not available in TP HelpDesk if stored in the db

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 5:39 pm Tagged with:

New Mashup: Visualize “Rotting” Cards on your Kanban Board

Mashups Comments
Apr 032012

We’re constantly working on improving our already powerful Kanban board.  Just a few months ago, we released a mashup that allowed you to group together your board’s swimlanes.  Today we’re back at it once again and we’d like to introduce you to the Kanban Card “Rotter”:

The Kanban Card Rotter is an advanced mashup that allows you to visualize those cards that have been in progress for a long period of time and are now rotting on your Kanban board.  In the Mashup you can specify a time period after which cards will begin to “rot” and a time period after which the cards have reached critical mass and are figuratively “stinking up” your Kanban board.  Cards will begin to turn brown as they rot, and will become more and more brown as they reach this critical point.  This mashup provides an excellent way for you to visualize those lingering user stories, bugs, and tasks that have been in progress for a long period of time.

Like all of our other mashups, this one is also customizable.  The dates default to 14 days before cards rot and 21 days before they reach terminal mass, but these numbers are easily changed in the mashup.  Check out this mashup and the rest of our cool mashups in our GitHub Mashups Library.

Posted by Jonathan at 6:24 pm

TargetProcess v.2.23.2: RESTful Storage

API, Release Comments
Mar 292012

RESTful Storage

Now you can store your custom data in TargetProcess and use it for various mashups. See the specs. This opens new possibilities in Mashups creation and TargetProcess customization.

GET storage/v1/{StorageGroupName}

Avatars in Kanban

Now you can see avatars for all assigned people.

Better Context Help

Context Help was improved. Now it has links to related articles, blog posts and videos

Other Fixes and Improvements

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 5:09 pm Tagged with: , , ,

TargetProcess v.2.23.1: Improved REST API, Enhanced Views and Plugins

API, Mashups, Plugins, Release Comments
Mar 122012

In this release we were focused on REST API improvements and fixes based on your feedback. New Views were also improved based on your feedback about navigation and lack of quick add actions.

Add Stuff Quickly

Now you can add related entities on new views quickly. For example, in User Story View you can add Tasks, Bugs and Test Cases. In Iteration View you can add User Stories and Bugs.

Convert Legacy Bugzilla Plugin profiles

Now you can use the new Bugzilla plugin for legacy Bugzilla profiles in existing projects. Just convert them with the Bugzilla Profile Converter.

Bugzilla profile converter

REST API: Add/Remove Operations for Resource Inner Collections

Operations with inner collections simplify some typical actions

Examples:

Add new task to user story (xml format)

Delete task from user story:

Git Plugin: View Diff for Added/Modified Files

Now you can view added/modified files and check the difference right in TargetProcess. No need to switch to another app.

Git Diff

Rank Requests by Votes

Finally you can sort Requests by Votes in TargetProcess and in Help Desk Portal as well.

REST API Fixes and Improvements

  • Reply Email address added for Project
  • Related Entities collection for Request added (read-only)
  • Generals do not return Custom fields
  • DeleteDate added for Users
  • IsPrivate, Source properties added for Request
  • Assignment not created if bug with the assignments collection is added
  • Allow update for resource if its read-only properties do not change
  • Exception during concurrent custom fields update
  • Last run date should reset to the current date if Test Cases status changes

Fixed Bugs and Small Improvements

  • #41895 Exception in Projects list: CustomField not configured
  • #39379 Auto redirect by https if http access is disabled
  • #39227 Project Team Member: Start Date added (now you can use Allocation Timeline mashup)
  • #33811 Extended ASCII displayed incorrectly in predefined report
  • #39759 Can’t send email if database is not initialized
  • #41401 Chrome: Filter pops up on using [Clear]
  • #41477 IE9: Code field expanding in Mashup Manager
  • #41609 Sample data delete: incorrect redirect for non-default port or protocol
  • #41603 Source Control Plugins: processing duplicate time records
  • #41950 Source Control Plugins: Broken layout for file preview
  • #41775 Revision info does not expand if clicked twice
  • #41728 Bugzilla Plugin: disable project selector in Bugzilla profile
  • #41388 CSV Import: stops working after getting error and re-starts as mapping is corrected

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 1:16 pm Tagged with: , , , , ,

TargetProcess v.2.23 Recap: Git and Bugzilla Plugins, Visual History, Mashups, Tasks on Kanban Board

Mashups, Plugins, Release, Usability Comments
Feb 142012

TargetProcess v.2.23 is already available to all On-Demand customers. On-Site customers will be able to download it later this week. This is the last major release before TargetProcess v.3.

Git and Bugzilla integrations

Git Integration

The long-awaited Git Plugin is finally there! You can integrate both with your local/remote Git repository and with GitHub repository; bind source code to User Stories, Bugs and Tasks, change states, add comments and update times on the fly with a simple Git commit:

#7754 comment: will not be fixed state: invalid time:0.5

  • Change defect states
  • Add comments to defect
  • Update time spent and time remaining

Read more about Git Integration setup

Bugzilla Integration

Bugzilla Integration

The new Bugzilla Plugin is fast and smooth. It imports bugs from Bugzilla showing all the relevant  info right in TargetProcess.

Read more about Bugzilla integration

Visual History for Features, User Stories, Bugs, Tasks and Requests

The visual timeline shows overall progress including all the state changes, time spent, responsible persons, impediments, added and closed bugs, and tasks. It helps to discover problems and waste in Kanban.

Flow

Mashup Manager

Mashups help to extend and customize TargetProcess. If you know some JavaScript, you can have fun and create cool customizations right here.

Mashups manager

Quite a number of mashups are available in TargetProcess Mashups Library, for example,  Classes of Services, Quick Add, Kanban Board Comment Counts.

Tasks on Kanban Board

Now you can work with Tasks on Kanban Board! No need to switch to Task Board. Just turn on the Show tasks as cards option in the Customize menu.

Other Fixes and Improvements

#34157 Beta Views: Project view added
#38857 Beta Views: Duplicate bugs functionality support
#37170 New sample project generation

#40866 Retain tags when copying user stories, bugs and features
#41178 Comments missed from old views (Internet Explorer)
#41850 Exception on redirect for OnDemand users if “https only” access is turned on
#17619 Line breaks are not preserved in the required comments on state change
#33264 Test cases: inline image won’t appear in test case run
#38088 Release Plan Backlog filtering with phrase tags
#38796 Show Test Run Name in the ‘Run History’ tab for Test Case view
#39318 ZIP archives corrupt if uploaded via HelpDesk portal
#39852 Permissions: can’t delete User Story without admin rights
#40405 Sender email swaps for add/edit comment email notifications
#40620 Exception on clicking the ‘Owner ID’ link (for a custom report with Requests)
#40703 Filter by Entity Type of ToDo list on Dashboard doesn’t work
#40801 “ASP.NET ISAPI is disabled” message after installation
#40873 The Move action for user stories ends incorrectly
#40878 Wrong pages count in some custom reports
#40999 The “Expired” label disappears as the “End Date” field in the Allocations report is cleared
#41004 SVN plugin hangs when someone tries to connect with SSH
#41060 Cascade import doesn’t work: session is reset after the first cycle

#41363 Mashup editor shows only first 125 lines of code
#39748 Mashups Manager: Preview mashup (for saved changes only)
#39842 Mashup Manager: Auto convert pasted URL to Placeholder

#40803 REST: exception if custom fields contains “-” (hyphen), : or ”
#41284 REST: the count of programs in response on /api/v1/programs depends on Context
#40189 REST: multiple select custom fields support
#40658 REST: create/update/delete Requester

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 5:51 pm Tagged with: , , , , ,

Coming soon: Bugzilla Profiles Converter

Plugins Comments
Feb 092012

This a mid-term notice for the users of the new Bugzilla plugin released in v.2.22.10

As we noted at the time of the release,  the old Bugzilla profiles can not be converted to the new ones so far.

Hold on for a while, we’re currently working on the profiles converter, and we expect it to be coming in v.2.23.1 in a couple of weeks.

More on Bugzilla plugin

 

 

 

Posted by Olga Kouzina at 6:16 pm Tagged with: , ,

New Mashup: Group your Kanban boards’ Swimlanes

Mashups Comments
Jan 232012

Our Kanban board is already pretty powerful.  Recently, we have added prioritization to the board and a number of Mashups that provide a basic implementation for Classes of Service and even visualization of Due Dates.  Now, we would like to introduce you to another Mashup for the Kanban board: the column grouper.

This Mashup allows you to group together various swimlanes on your board, and even have group WIP limits that apply to the grouped columns in aggregate.  For example, you can now have a WIP group called “Development” that contains all the swimlanes related to development, another for Testing, and another for your Release process.  Each of these swimlanes can have their own individual limits, and each of the swimlane groups can have an aggregate limit.

The Mashup is 100% customizable in terms of your group names, columns, and limits.  Check out the Mashup in our Mashups Library on GitHub for download links and more information.

Posted by Jonathan at 6:24 pm

New Bugzilla plugin in TargetProcess v.2.22.10

API, Plugins, Release Comments
Jan 232012

TargetProcess v.2.22.10 is available to all the On-Demand customers and Free edition users. On-Site customers will be able to upgrade by the end of the week.

The New Bugzilla Integration Plugin: Faster and Easier

Our new Bugzilla plugin is the best on the market for sure. It can’t be any easier to setup and use a plugin. Auto-mapping makes setup a breeze, while the new mashups come handy for an even closer integration. Read more about Bugzilla plugin.

NOTE: The new plugin is fully functional, but it’s not possible to convert the old profiles so far. You can set up new test profiles on a dummy project.

Bugzilla - TargetProcess integration: map priorities

REST API Improvements

  • REST: update inactive project
  • REST: incorrect update if inner entity does not exist
  • REST: get/update custom fields for the Project entity
  • REST: Reset Iteration value when reset Release
  • REST: Filter by acid in Context
  • REST: exception adding a new User if the Developer role renamed

Other Fixes

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 5:28 pm Tagged with: , , ,

That’s how our Support works

Uncategorized Comments
Jan 192012

It really is:

TargetProcess Support Case

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 4:00 pm Tagged with:

Enjoy Mashups Management and Visual Flow in TargetProcess v.2.22.9

API, Mashups, Release Comments
Jan 162012

TargetProcess v.2.22.9 is available to all On-Demand customers and On-Site Free users. Public release for On-Site customers is due in several days.

This release is quite significant as it includes a number of major improvements.

Beta Views: inner lists with inline edit and prioritization

Order bugs and tasks inside a User Story. Inline edit on the fly. Read more about improvements in lists.

Ordering and Inline Edit in lists

Beta Views: Implementation History for Features, User Stories, Bugs, Tasks and Requests

This visualized timeline shows full progress including all the state changes, time spent, responsible persons, impediments, added and closed bugs, and tasks. More on how the Visual Flow can help you.

Visual Flow

Mashup Manager: basic release

On-Demand users can create their own mashups in minutes or re-use out-of-the-box mashups. Note: you need Admin rights to create and manage mashups.

Mashups manager

Multi-select custom fields (not available in Beta Views so far)

It’s finally there. If you need a custom field with multiple choices, you can now use it.

Multiple Selection

Burn Down calculation when Time Tracking is not used

Now you can have accurate burn downs even if you don’t use time tracking at all. Just update the remaining effort in Task Board and check the progress on Sprint Burndown chart.

 

Tasks added to Prioritize screen

Order Tasks, Stories and Bugs by their priority for your developers

 

REST API fixes and improvements

  • REST: Test Plan Run collection for Test Plans added
  • REST: HTTP 500 error for requests if user logged with Windows Authentication
  • REST: exception on resetting custom field value to NULL
  • Plugins: Logs and Data Folder not deleted when TP is updated

Other Fixes

Posted by Michael Dubakov at 3:24 pm Tagged with: , , , , , , ,
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