Use Apps to Add Functionality
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An app allows for the combination of data from more than one source into a single integrated page within Rally. Rally offers custom apps and managed apps. A catalog of managed apps is available to Rally users. These managed apps can be easily installed in custom pages within Rally, or on your dashboard.
Custom apps combine the information you have stored in Rally with HTML, JavaScript, and an API to render and manipulate data to suit your specific needs.
Use apps includes the following:
Create a custom page and add apps
You may create a custom page containing managed and custom apps with HTML or JavaScript to display reports, graphs and other information:
- Hover over the tab where you want to create a page, and select the + New Page link.
- Enter a Name for the custom page and click Save. Your new custom page displays.
- Select a page layout option. You can always come back and change this setting later.
- Click the Start adding apps link.
- Select an app from the App Catalog window and click Add This App.
Use the Customize Page menu to add additional apps to the page, share the page with other users in the workspace, copy the page, or change the layout:
Use the gear icon at the top of each app to adjust settings or remove the app:
Custom apps
The Rally app catalog also contains customizable apps. You may install these apps to manipulate Rally data, use your own custom code, or access external web resources.
Install the Custom HTML app from the catalog to insert your own custom HTML or Javascript code:
Install the Custom Grid app to enter field queries to sort and filter Rally data in a grid-based format:
Install the Custom URL app to view external web resources or websites within a custom page:
App catalog
The following is a list of all available apps on the Rally Dashboard page and custom pages.
| App | Description |
|---|---|
| Active Defect Charts |
Displays the currently active defects using two pie charts. |
| Agile EVM |
Displays the Earned Value Management metrics for the current Rally release. |
| Blocked Work |
Displays what is currently blocked in your workspace, and who blocked it. |
| Blocking History |
Displays when users blocked and unblocked user stories and tasks. |
| Build Dashboard |
Report on build success and daily build statistics if you have integrated Rally with your build system. |
| Build Health |
Displays proportions of build successes to failures along with build duration for the past 30 days. |
| Build Health by Iteration |
Displays proportions of build successes to failures along with build duration for the past 10 iterations. |
| Build Traceability |
Provides traceability on which defects, user stories, and tasks are related to a particular build. |
| Completed Stories and Defects per Iteration |
Displays the completed user stories and defects assigned to the user for the current iteration. |
| Cross Workspace Release Status |
Displays an overview of work items assigned to a relase across multiple workspaces that share the same release schedule. |
| Custom Grid |
Use custom queries on work item fields to sort and filter Rally data in a grid-based display. |
| Custom HTML |
Build a custom app using HTML and Javascript code that you specify. You can use data from Rally's web services interface. |
| Custom URL |
Build a custom app using HTML and Javascript code that you specify. You can use data from Rally's web services interface. |
| Cycle/Lead Time |
Displays the average number of days it takes for work to flow through your process. |
| Defect Summary Matrix |
Provides a breakdown of defects in a realease by the State and Priority fields. |
| Defect Trend |
Displays cummulative defects opened versus closed over time, indicating whether the trend is increasing or decreasing. |
| Defects by Closer |
Displays defects within a selected release along with details of who closed the defect and when. |
| Defects by Package |
A basic report of all owned defects, grouped by the Package field. |
| Defects by Priority |
Non-closed defects for the past 30 days, categorized by priority. |
| Defects by State |
All defects for the past 30 days, categorized by state. |
| Dependency Status Dashboard #2 |
Displays cross-project dependencies between user stories in upcoming iterations. |
| Enhanced Burndown Chart |
Displays work added to a release along with trend lines for burndown and added work to project an expected release date. |
| Enhanced Velocity Chart |
Chart that includes velocity, work accepted after the iteration, unaccepted work, and a trend line. |
| Epic Progress |
Displays the progress of user stories associated with parent stories in a release. |
| Estimation Board |
Provides a view of user stories, defects, and defect suites organized by plan estimate sizes. |
| Getting Started for Contributors |
Provides guidance for developers, testers, tech writers, and other individual contributors to help them manage their work. |
| Getting Started for Executives |
Provides guidance for program managers, portfolio managers, directors, and executives to help them understand what's going on across multiple initiatives or teams. |
| Getting Started for Organizers |
Provides guidance for project managers, product owners, or scrum masters to help them plan and track work for a team. |
| Incomplete Stories for Current Iteration |
Displays user stories in the current iteration that have not been completed or accepted. |
| Iteration Burndown |
Work remaining in the iteration to proactively anticipate whether the committed work will be delivered by the end of the iteration. |
| Iteration Burnup |
Work delivered so far in the iteration to proactively anticipate whether the iteration scope will be delivered. |
| Iteration Cumulative Flow |
Work-in-progress status to visually analyze the trend in lead time for delivery of working code. |
| Iteration Dashboard |
A graphical summary of scheduled work, test cases, defects, and a burndown chart with a visual indicator of iteration health. |
| Iteration Defects by Priority |
Non-closed defects in the iteration, categorized by priority to assess end of iteration technical debt. |
| Iteration Defects by State |
All defects in the iteration, categorized by state to assess end-of-iteration technical debt. |
| Iteration Scope Change |
Provides visibility into scope changes after the team has committed to an iteration. |
| Iteration Summary |
A simple overview of team progress against an iteration. Based on the status of work, defects, and test cases, you'll be able to see colored indicators that help address problems as they arise. |
| Iteration Traceability |
A simple overview of team progress against an iteration. Based on the status of work, defects, and test cases, you'll be able to see colored indicators that help address problems as they arise. |
| Kanban Board |
Provides teams with the option of managing pull-based, lean software development projects with other iterative and timeboxed projects. |
| Last Result by Test Set |
Displays the last test case result for test cases in each test set associated with an iteration. |
| More Cowbell |
When you have a fever... |
| My Availability |
Displays your number of available capacity hours entered versus the number of assigned task hours for multiple iterations. |
| My Defects |
Defects for which you are the owner. |
| My Notifications |
Displays notification alerts generated per rules entered in the My Notification Rules section of Rally setup. |
| My Tasks |
Tasks for which you are the owner. |
| My Test Cases |
Test cases for which you are the owner. |
| Open Defect Age |
Displays the mean age of defects. |
| Open Stories, Defects, and Tasks |
Displays all unfinished user stories, defects, and tasks assigned to you. |
| Personal Burndown Chart |
Displays a burndown chart of all user stories and tasks assigned to you in the current iteration. |
| Planned vs. Actual Burndown Chart |
A release burndown chart comparing ideal with actual progress, including a table of figures. |
| Portfolio Item Timeline |
Visualize how portfolio items are progressing. Requires Rally Portfolio Manager. |
| Portfolio Kanban Board |
Track the status of your portfolio items as they move along in your portfolio process. Requires Rally Portfolio Manager. |
| Print Story Cards |
Formats selected user story info into cards that can be printed and used on a physical scrum wall. |
| Print Task Cards |
Formats selected task info into cards that can be printed and used on a physical scrum wall. |
| Productivity Chart |
Tracks a measurement of the team's productivity as a function of points per hour. |
| Program Dashboard |
Displays a graphical summary of scheduled work, test cases, defects, and a burndown chart for each release in a program. |
| Project Status |
High-level pie charts displaying user story, task, test case, and defect status. |
| Ready to Accept |
Work that is ready to accept. |
| Recent Activity |
Recent comments in your workspace, and who commented. |
| Recently Changed |
Displays tasks, user stories, and defects that were modified by the team as of the last work date. |
| Release Burnup |
Work delivered so far in the release to proactively anticipate whether the release scope will be delivered. |
| Release Cumulative Flow |
Work-in-progress status to visually analyze the trend in lead time for release value delivery. |
| Release Dashboard |
A graphical summary of scheduled work, test cases, defects, and a burndown chart with a visual indicator of release health. |
| Release Defect Trend |
Cumulative defects opened versus closed in a release. |
| Release Dependencies |
Displays a table of user stories scheduled for the selected release that have a predecessor or successor. |
| Release Scope Change |
Provides visibility into scope changes after the team has committed to a release. |
| Release Summary |
Provides a succinct view of the stories and defects accepted in a relase. |
| Release Traceability |
Displays basic information and relationships between user stories and related tasks, test cases, and defects for a release. |
| Source Code Check-In |
Changeset and check-in details for the last 20 check-ins for your projects in scope. |
| Stories by Creator |
Stories in a selected release by story creator. |
| Story Board |
Provides a view of work items within an iteration organized by state, as if you were looking at a whiteboard. |
| Story Deep Copy |
Copies a parent user story along with all child user stories and tasks in a single action. |
| Story Map |
Provides a top-level view of a user story hierarchy across multiple iterations. |
| Super Customizable Iteration Chart |
Displays iteration burndown data with multiple chart type, trend display, and color options. |
| Super Customizable Program Chart |
Displays program burndown data with multiple chart type, trend display, and color options. |
| Super Customizable Release Chart |
Displays release burndown data with multiple chart type, trend display, and color options. |
| System Requirement Validation Document |
Displays how functional and nonfunctional requirements are implemented by generatign a printable report. |
| Task Board |
Provides a consice view of tasks in the current iteration, as if you were viewing a whiteboard. |
| Test Case Estimation |
Tracks your team's effectiveness at estimating the amount of effort by test case. |
| Test Case Pass/Fail History |
Displays result history for multiple test cases on a single screen. |
| Throughput |
Displays the count of work items accepted in a given interval (weeks, months, quarters). |
| Traceability Matrix |
Displays traceability from product requirements to test cases and corresponding results. |
| Unassigned Tasks for Current Iteration |
Displays all tasks in the current iteration where the Owner field is blank. |
| Upgrade to Enterprise Edition |
Discusses the benefits of upgrading to Enterprise Edition of Rally. |
| Utilization Chart |
Displays how well your team is managing their workload through capacity planning and task estimation from iteration to iteration. |
| Velocity Chart |
Trend in value delivery, including work accepted after the iteration, completed work not yet accepted, best, worst, and average velocity. |
| Weekly Actuals Report |
Displays tasks worked on by a team during the specified number of weeks, using the Actuals field. |
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