Data Exchange 2.2.0

Export From a Baseline, Filter, or Location

• You can now export from a baseline, filter or from a specific location in the hierarchy.
  • Baseline and filters can potentially have invalid hierarchies; if this is the case, then the items (spec-objects) exported from this will be exported flat without any specifications.
    • Previously, exporting from location you only had the option to select from components -- now you can select any component, set, or folder to export content from.

Settings Menu

• All of the application settings have been consolidated into a single menu, which can be accessed by selecting “File” > “Settings”.
  • This will open up a dialog window where you adjust the application settings.

Refresh Data

• There is now a menu option to refresh the instance metadata, which can be accessed by selecting “File” > “Refresh Data From Jama Connect”.
  • Please note that selection this will clear all of the export/import selections that have been inputted.

Include Export Selection as Root Specification

• You can now select if you want to export the selected export container (component, set, or folder) as a single specification.
  • Previously, the behavior is that you select a component, and all the first level children of that component are then used to create the specifications of the ReqIF.
• This new feature allows you to include the selected container with your export; you can select this feature within the settings menu.
  • Please note that this new feature is defaulted to be true so, if you would like to maintain the legacy behavior for export, you'll need to go into the settings menu and unselect the checkbox “Include Export Selection as Root Specification”.

Reverse Relationship Direction

• Data Exchange will now import and export relationships with the upstream item in Jama as the Source or Target item in ReqIF.
  • This allows for more flexibility when moving to and from systems which may not create links with directionality in mind.

SVG to PNG Conversion

• SVG images are an unsupported object type within ReqIF files.
  • However, in order to support the SVG files that already exist in Jama Connect instances, these files will be converted into a png preview image.

• Spec object attributes long-name was previously not respecting the mapping.
  • This is now resolved and the attribute’s long name now uses the mapping file.
• Rich Text is now more robust.
  • There were several html tags that were being converted into xhtml within the exported ReqIF file that are not compliant with ReqIF standard.
• Logging improvements: some error and warning logs were not reporting correctly.
  • This is now corrected and has more accurate and useful messages.
• Exporting Specifications with a limited field mapping was previously not respecting the mapping file.
  • This now resolved.

• When exporting from baseline you will not be able to select baselines created from a release.
  • This is something that will be enabled in a future update.