Jama Connect® 8.68 Cloud - NOT Supported

Release Date US: 2021/12/10
Release Date AU/EU: 2021/12/11
 

Introducing the Categories Feature

We are excited to introduce the first iteration of the cross-project feature categories. Use the Categories feature to organize and view items based on classifications like configurations, allocations, releases, or features. This feature offers a view into how items and components can build a final product. 

Use the Categories feature to:

• Allocate requirements to a hierarchy of items in a system of systems context where the items might exist in multiple projects
  
  
• Manage releases for multiple items that live in multiple projects
  
  
• Identify variants of products
  
  
• Organize and view items in a cross-project hierarchy

The Categories feature is available in these areas of Jama Connect:

• Admin
  
  
• Single Item View
  
  
• Categories tab, when enabled, in the Explorer Tree
  
  
• Labs API:
  • Associate categories with an item
  • Retrieve categories that are associated with an item
    
    

In future releases, Categories will be supported in these features: 

• List View, Reading View, Trace View
  
  
• Filters
  
  
• Exports
  
  
• Velocity reports
  
  
• Baselines
  
  
• Review Center
  
  
• Item version history
  
  
• Item activity
  
  
• Project activity stream
  
  
• Imports

Enabling the Categories option

The Categories option is disabled by default. The organization admin must enable it for the option to appear in Jama Connect and be available for users.

When enabled, users with read/write permissions can interact with:

1. Categories tab in the Explorer Tree
   
   
2. Categories table in Single Item View
   
   
3. Manage categories button in Single Item View, Reading View, and List View
   
   

When enabled, organization admins can interact with:

1. Categories admin tree

2. Selected category path option 

3. Variations of selected category option

 
Roles for the Categories feature 

Your role determines which tasks you can perform when you use the Categories feature. 

New Performance and Usability Guidance 

With this release, several new guidance messages have been added throughout Jama Connect. These messages are informational only and won't prevent you from completing the intended action. Additional messages will be added in a future release of Jama Connect.  

These messages are designed to:

• Notify you when an action might have an unintended performance or usability impact.
  
  
• Provide insights into how the application can be used more efficiently.

These messages now appear when you:

• Create a review with more than 500 items
  
  
• Send a review to more than 30 recipients
  
  
• Copy a project with more than 10,000 items
  
  

Updates to the Admin Workflow

• A warning message now appears when you enable or disable the workflow for your organization.​
  
  

• A warning message now appears when a project manager enables or disables the project workflow override option for a project.
  
  

• Drop-down menus are now searchable.
  
  

• Workflow page layout has been updated for a better user experience. 
  
  

Updates from Customer Feedback 

New Option for Exporting Velocity Reports to Excel

Users can now export directly to Excel rather than using the legacy format.

• In some cases, custom reports written in support of XLS format (legacy), might require minor formatting corrections.
  
  
• This new option is available only for Velocity reports; for other report types, the XLS format (legacy) option is still available. 
  
  
• This option is not enabled by default. You must manually configure this option for each report. 

New Community Report: "Baseline Diff One Column" Report

This release adds a new Visual Comparison Report. You can use a visually enhanced version of the Baseline Comparison Report to measure progress in your requirements from baseline to baseline. Similar to a Jama Connect version comparison view, you can configure, run, and export this new report.

You can also analyze requirement changes by looking for these indicators: 

• Additions to text — Green text with green dotted underline
  
  
• Deletions to text — Red text with red highlight
  
  
• Deleted images — Border highlighted in red
  
  
• Resized Images — Dotted-line border highlighted in blue
  
  
• New images — Border highlighted in green
  
  
• Changes to relationships — Appear the same as the original Baseline Compare report
  
  

You will be able to access the reports to install from here:  
Baseline to Baseline Diff Community Reports GitHub repo

Do you have feedback? Join our Community where you can comment on this idea card in our Customer Ideation Portal.

New Quick-Add Option

You can now access the Quick-add option from a subset of items:

• From Single Item View, select Sub-item widget > Arrow icon > Quick add
  
  

Additional Test Center Customization Options

For the Test Run item type, you can now use Editor Templates in custom rich text fields:

• Organization admins can configure the default Editor Templates for the Test Run item type in the Admin panel.
  
  
• Templates can be edited in the Test Execution window.
  
  
• To export the Editor Template information for a Test Run item: From Single Item View, select Export > View all templates > All Item Details, then click Run.
  
  

Usability Improvements

• Tooltips now appear when you expand and collapse the Explorer Tree.
  
  

• Item type names with more than 30 characters are now shortened to avoid text wrapping in the header. 
  
  

• The Details option is now displayed at the top of the organization admin navigation panel.
  
  

• In List View, Reading View, and Single Item View, labels on the action buttons now display the icon only (depending on the size of your screen).
  
  

Resolved Issues

Known Issue