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Known Issues - April 12

Steve Gotsch
posted this on April 12, 2010 02:36 pm


Priority
Status
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Critical
Analysis in Progress
BUG-392 On items with more than 1000 relationships, relate function is slow to open and clowe
Proposed solution for large volumes of relationships is to improve performance, limit initial number of relationships returned and display a loading indicator.

Suggested Work Around
Utilize a default relationship filter to limit the number of relationships returned. 

Related Support Tickets:
Critical
Ready for Development
BUG-928 Issues with indexing getting out-of-sync
Some users have experienced issues with the indexing getting out-of-sync and they need to manually re-index. Sometimes a clean re-index is required to fix the issue.  Some of the activities which seem to possibly triggering these indexing issues are:
  • Importing a backup data file (usually during migration)
  • Importing Word or CSV files
    • One known issue is when a file import results in a single item with a huge amount of data in the description field.  This will be pulled into a separate related bug for limiting the size of field values for items during import.
  • One customer captured the activities of a user who was adding items and then seeing those items in that same session, but when she logged into a new session the next day, the items failed to show until a manual re-index was performed (see attached). FC: Looks like this may be related to the client running two cluster Tomcats.
  • automatically removing the index directory before indexing on setup/upgrades, or
  • other options for handling this well
Related Ticket(s)
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/448
Critical
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-878 Hyperlinks to Contour items from generated MS Word and Excel documents don't go to desired item
Steps to reproduce and test:
  1. Log into Contour and check remember me
  2. From Contour, generate a document that includes generated hyperlinks back to the item in Contour - such as the current view "All Item Details Report"
  3. Close Contour
  4. Open the word document and click on the hyperlink
  5. Contour should open and display the selected item
Related to ticket(s):
support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/146
Critical
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-902 Long running script message displays in IE 7 and 8
There are certain scenarios that can cause Internet Explorer to display a long running script error.

Areas where this can occur:
  1. Org admin Admin, JIRA Connector, Opening the edit field mappings window within the same session reopening the mappings window.
  2. Creating or editing filters with a large volume of users
  3. Browsing or opening items with a large volume of check boxes - such as editing an item with multiple user components or multi-select components with many items.
  4. After using the system from the user perspective, changing to the admin perspective often displays the message.
The IE javascript pop-up that asks the user if they wish to continue processing a slow running script comes up whenever a user tries to close 4 or more tabs at once.  Tested this with Firefox and all of the tabs immediately close.
  1. Get a list of Items by clicking on a Set.
  2. Right-click on an Item and opt to open in new tab.
  3. Repeat of 3 or 4 other Items from the list.
  4. Right-click on one of the tab headers and select close all tabs.
  5. Script popup should show.
This is a known issue with the check box component used with user selection, set selection and JIRA field mapping.  These are being replaced with an alternate widget that should eliminate this issue.

Related to ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/213
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/249
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/387
Critical
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1025 Comments are not shown within the Activities tab when the Comment or My Settings filter is used
Whenever any filters are applied to the activities, older comments are not shown.  This can be either by manually filtering for comments via My Settings or clicking on the Comments button within an Item's activities tab.
  1. Start with an older XML dataset that is attached.
  2. Review the Activity Stream on the front page. 
  3. Go to the last page of the stream - page 11 and see comments from Homer on UC-4
  4. Look in Comments filter and see only comments from 7/23 forward as there.
  5. Open UC-4 - see the comments are in the activity stream.
  6. Look in the Comments filter and see that there are no comments shown.

http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/397
Critical
Approved for Development
BUG-1165 Batch Update Enhancements for updating large number of items
Enhance the batch update capability to handle the case where the number of items updated is large (> 500):
  • Improve performance for updating each item if possible
  • If the number of items being updated is greater than some number N (say 100 or 500), ask the user if they want to be notified when done via email and perform the batch update asynchronously without throwing up a mask that makes the user wait until it completes.  If the number is less than N, then it should do what it does now, which is put up the mask and have the user 
  • Batch update should lock and unlock items as it updates them
  • Batch update should flush the hibernate cache every so many items (maybe the same number N from above) to avoid getting Hibernate timeout errors after running a while. It's ok if a batch update takes a while to complete, but the batch update should be able to complete successfully no matter how large the number updates.
  • If the user indicates they want to be notified, then once the batch update is done, send an email notification to the user, with a summary of how many were updated and how many were locked.  We could also list the document keys of the skipped locked items.
Related to ticket(s):
http://jamasoftware.zendesk.com/tickets/374

Critical
Ready for Development
BUG-1189 Item in Set custom field does not clear out prior selection
The Item in Set custom field does not clear out the value that was selected in a different Item.
  1. Customize an Item Type such that it has the custom field Item is Set.
  2. Open an Item in the configured Set and select and Item for the Item in Set field.
  3. Open up a different Item in the same set and edit a field other than the Item in Set field.
  4. After saving you will see that the prior selection was added to the recently updated Item even though the Item in Set picker was not opened.
Related Ticket(s)
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/525
Critical
Ready for Development
BUG-1178 DOCX import does not support bullet lists
As of 2.9.5, items imported via DOCX that contain a bullet list do not contain an HTML bullet list.  The import inserts a dot character and some spaces.  This makes the Items hard to edit and results in bad characters being sent to reports.
Replace Aspose generated HTML for bullets and numbering with true UL, OL, and LI tags.
Critical
Approved for Development
BUG-1188 Exception JSP Page includes input string in detailed info that could cause a security issue.
Critical
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1185 Word import includes heading outline numbering in the requirement's name
Documents that have outline numbering will add the number to the Item's name on import.  The only way to avoid this is by updating the document.  Can't think of a scenario where this is something that a user would want, but if it is there because of a customer requirement then we might consider an option to include the number in the name instead of doing it by default.
Critical
Ready for Development
BUG-1179 Notification plugin fails when assigning to a new user
The notification plugin causes a severe error where an Item cannot be saved.  The plugin expects the systemUser column with the userbase table to be a boolean containing either T or F.  When the column has a NULL value, the Item containing the user assignment cannot be saved.

Related Ticket:
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/514

Critical
Approved for Development
BUG-1163 Pasting from Office application such as Word and Outlook can corrupt items in Contour
Pasting from Office application such as Word and Outlook can corrupt items in Contour due to hidden characters and styles. 

http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/486
Critical
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1036 Reading view breaks when Short Name not included in list view
When an Item Type is set up such that the Short Name is not included in the list view the reading panel does not display information correctly.
  1. Open Admin perspective.
  2. Edit an Item Type.
  3. Edit Short Name field so that it is not included in the list.
  4. Save and close the Admin perspective.
  5. Select a Set that is built from the Item Type.
  6. Select reading view.
May need to refresh browser.

Related Ticket:
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/431

High
Ready for Development
BUG-832 IE8 masking issue when returning from full screen mode of the rich text editor
When using the full screen editor from IE8 a transparent mask covers the screen when you try to go back to the normal editor mode.  It will not clear and requires a browser refresh.

Support Ticket(s)
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/384
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/464
High
Ready for Analysis
BUG-941 HTML in version notes shows HTML syntax in display
If the version notes/comments when editing an item in Contour includes HTML from the rich text editor or copied from Word, the areas where these user comments are displayed show the full syntax and not the formatted type.

Areas tested
Activities stream
Sent notification email

Support tickets:
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/281
High
Ready for Analysis
BUG-958 Timezone Support within Contour
Enable users to configure their local time zone and adjust for differential from server time zone.  In addition, this enhancement should also work for reports.
High
Approved for Development
BUG-940 HTML editor cannot be found
Users intermittently get an error message of "html editor cannot be found" when trying to add or open an item in Contour.  

support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/282
High
Ready for Development
BUG-1177 Read only view or Item detail does not display table rows mark as header
The FCK editor provides the ability to indicate that a table has a header row or column.  When used the table header shows up in the editor and in the html compare but not on the Item's read only detail tab.
  1. Take the text from the attached sample.
  2. Paste into an open FCK editor with the Source button clicked prior to pasting the text.
  3. Click on the Source button and see the table with 2 rows.  One is a header and one holds detail.
  4. Save & Commit.
  5. Note that the Item only shows the detail row and not the header.

Related Ticket
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/506
High
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1158 Item Id does not sort numerically
Sorting by Item ID (documentKey) does not sort by the numerical number. The sort should display the items based on the prefex then the number.

REQ-1
REQ-2
REQ-3
REQ-4
...

Support Ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/495

High
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1122 Applying Filter to Explorer messes up Relate Panel Explorer
 Steps to reproduce:
  • Find an item that has a Relationships tab, and open the Relate Item(s) panel.  This initializes the panel.
  • Close the Relate Item(s) panel
  • Select or create a filter
  • Click "Apply filter to Explorer"
  • Now open up another item with a Relationship tab
  • Open the Relate Item(s) panel again.  Notice the filter has been applied to the Explorer tab here
  • In the normal Explorer tab panel, click to remove the filter
  • The Relate Item(s) panel filter remains applied, with no way to remove it besides refreshing the browser.
High
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1010 Non-RTF text fields does not display or import any text that is bound by greater than and less than characters.
It appears that method that prepares text fields (non-RTF) to be displayed or imported within the list does not differentiate between html tags and other words that include greater than and less than characters.  When the field type is rich text the values are correctly rendered.
  1. Configure a Set such that it has multiple text fields that will be displayed with the list view.
  2. Create an Item within the Set where each text field contains at least one word surrounded by less than and greater than characters. <test>
  3. Save the Item and view it in a Set.
  1. Alternatively, import the attached file.
  2. The preview will only show the characters not the text.
  3. Complete the import.  Only the characters will be shown, none of the text that was encapsulated by <> will have been imported.

http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/373
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/414
High
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1038 No version comment when using Save on an Item prior to Save and Close
  1. Edit an Item
  2. Make an update and click Save button
  3. Click Save and Close
  4. Enter a comment.
  5. See that the comment is not shown.
Related Ticket(s)
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/447
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/442
High
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1037 Filter sort order is lost when exporting to Excel
After a filter has been viewed, users would like to print the items in the same order as viewed on screen.  When exporting to Excel the sort order is lost and a different sort order is applied.
High
Analysis in Progress
BUG-1001 Bulk actions involving thousands of items take a very long time and sometimes does not finish

If you perform bulk actions involving thousands of items (tested with 5000+ items), the operations take a long time to complete and in some cases they do not complete:
- Batch updates
- Copy folder with lots of items
- Copy project
- Delete project
- Import

Find attached a CSV with 5000+ items for testing.

Related to ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/327

Medium
Approved for Development
BUG-915 Limit the size of text field in document/item
Users pasting or importing large documents (typically MS Word) into a Contour rich text field that exceeds 100 MB of data causes performance issues and display issues.  Add a system property that defines the maximum length for these fields.

If possible, ensure that user is notified that not all their data was captured.

Areas affected:
  • Paste into editor
  • Import
  • Web Services
  Appears to be ways that Pasting from Office gets expanded out to a huge size which causes all kinds of memory issues fetching the item from the DB for anything (indexing, reading, writing).  This is related to the paste bug, but it will be good to limit this after all post-processing of the rich text occurs in the back-end.

Medium
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-975 All notification emails should include the Project Name and the Set Name for each item
Within batch E-Mails, the Project Name and the Set Name should be printed for each item in the list in order to get a better overview which item needs action and which not. Without that information, each item has to be clicked and checked in contour.

Related to ticket(s):

http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/208
Medium
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-881 Batch update email template displays code
The batch update email template displays a code placeholder for document type and should also remove HTML from the comment text.

Example of what is sent out:

Subject: Batch Update: 41 Bugs updated

Frank,

Derwyn Harris has updated 41 ${documentType.name}(s) in Contour:

I reviewed these items and have moved them all to 3.0. <br />
 -------------------------------------------------------

Jama

Medium
Ready for Analysis
BUG-1135 Analysis: Large BIRT reports to Word are saved prior to completion
When user has a large report or one with a lot of images it appears as though the file is saved and opened prior to it being completed.  No definite steps to recreate, will attempt to get data from client.  Attached a sample file that is a Word 2003 XML.  Reviewing the file shows that it ends mid-word.

Related Ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/484
Medium
Ready for Development
BUG-1180 User selection dialog missing vertical scrollbar after performing a search with large number of results
Searching for a common name such as "Smith" returns more results than fit the dialog size.  There is no vertical scroll bar that would allow a user to scroll through the entire list.

Related Ticket:
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/516
Medium
Ready for Development
BUG-1181 Notification plugin does not trigger when assignments made via inline edit or assignedTo set to NULL
The notification plugin is configured on Jamacloud to setup an email notification for the assigned user when the assignTo field is set.  The plugin appears to be skipped when doing assignments via the inline edit or if the assignment is set no null where the user opts for clear selection from the user picker.

Related Ticket:
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/514
Medium
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1131 Deleted baselines are visible in Item version detail
Deleted baselines need to be removed from the Item version tab.
  1. Create a baseline on a Set.
  2. Check an Item in the Set and see the baseline name in the Version detail.
  3. Make an update to the Item.
  4. Create a new baseline on the Set.
  5. Open the Item backup and see both baselines.
  6. Delete the first baseline.
  7. Review the Item and see the that deleted baseline is still listed on the Version tab.
Related Ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/482
Medium
Ready for Development
BUG-1159 Grid Columns settings should allow wrap option
It should be possible to configure a column to wrap the data.

Support Ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/496
Medium
Analysis in Progress
BUG-1013 Removed ability to print or export the results of impact analysis
The ability to print from the impact analysis dialog was available in 2.6 and then removed in 2.8 when the the method for providing the behavior was discovered to be security risk.  This feature is important to customers and should be provided either as a print or a report that the user can save or print from.

http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/378
Low
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-918 Activity stream - batch update event is missing
When the activity stream was released, batch update events were excluded as they generate a large volume of events.  The intended flow is to have Contour log a single activity of "Batch Update" at the project scope activity stream, individual activities at the item scope.  Currently the activities are recorded at the item level as planned but not at the project level.

Steps to reproduce:
  1. Batch update a number of items
  2. Refresh Project Home > Activity Stream (no filter set in My Settings or All Activities)
  3. The batch update event does not appear.
Low
Ready for Development
BUG-912 Sets created with no components include by default
In Contour admin, when creating a new item type administrators are able to create the new type with no components selected.  In this case, Contour by default includes 3 components rather than no components.

Related to Ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/237
Low
Ready for Development
BUG-1170 Tab for search results can expand beyond screen size with large searches
Entering in large lists of search terms can cause the resulting search results tab to extend beyond the size of the browser instead of limiting the amount of text shown in the tab.
  1. Close all open grid result tabs.
  2. Paste in a large list of Ids.  A list is provided in the environment description below.
  3. Get the correct Search Result List AND a Search Result Tab which is too wide to be displayed.

The bug only appears after first search.  If there's already a Search Tab due to an earlier Search, the Tab's size keeps being limited.

Related Ticket(s):
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/500

Low
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1016 Able to create duplicate Test Results by multiple clicks of Save button
The Save button on the Test Results dialog is not disabled after the first click.  If the system is running a bit slow or the user does a quick double-click, the user can click the Save button multiple times creating duplicate Test Results.  Not sure which browser the customer is using but I was able to reproduce this in IE7.
  1. Execute a Manual Test from the Test Results tab found within a Test Case Item.
  2. Quickly click the Save button multiple times before the dialog closes.
  3. Note that you have just created duplicate Test Results.
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/380
Low
Fixed, Ready to Test
BUG-1021 Updating whether or not a field is editable from the Item Type configuration requires logging out of the browser
When adjusting the fields displayed for a given Item Type the user can control whether or not the field is editable.  After updating and saving this change the user has to log out of Contour, basically clearing the cache to see the update.
  1. Access the Administration perspective.
  2. Select an Item Type and click on the config link.
  3. Edit one of the fields and turn on (or off) the read only flag.
  4. Save the changes.
  5. Edit an Item for updated set and see that the field's read only state didn't change.
  6. Close browser and edit the same Item.
http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/392
Low
Ready for Analysis
BUG-896 Automate the outline numbering / global sorting routine
Currently the process of resorting or updating the outline numbering and global sort order is performed manually.  When new items are added to a set, they will have several values (in the database) that are null until the "update headings" button or a report that calls this routine is run.  It would be beneficial to have Contour handle the sorting and reordering automatically with new items assigned values corresponding to their location.  This is mainly to simplify usage and for reporting purposes.

http://support.jamasoftware.com/tickets/215





Apr 12, 2010 5:20 PM