Rally Build 2012.05.19-10
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Copy tasks

A copy command has been added to summary and detail pages that contain tasks. When you copy a task, an editor window will display, with (Copy of) added to the Name field. There are multiple pages in Rally that you may copy a task from.

From a task detail page, select the Copy command from the Actions drop-down menu.

From any of the following summary pages, select the copy icon on the right side of a task row:

• Track > Iteration Status page
• Track > Release Status page
• Track > Team Status page
• Track > Tasks page
• User story, defect, and defect suite detail pages: select the Task link from the sidebar

View Custom HTML app source code

Need to quickly copy or edit a custom app built by yourself or a colleague? We've made it easier to obtain the source code from the Custom HTML app. Click the gear menu icon at top of the app title bar, and select the View Source option.

A window will display. Click the Select All icon to highlight the app code, then copy-paste into a new Custom HTML app or editor to make your changes.

Defects fixed on May 19, 2012

• DE12328 - Incorrect error message displays on some Kanban Board apps when attempting re-rank
• DE13513 - Kanban Board app displays items from child projects despite scoping settings

Contacting Customer Support

To contact Rally Customer Support, click the Contact Support link in the lower left corner of the Rally tool.

Support email: rallysupport@rallydev.com
Support Web: http://www.rallydev.com/open-support-case

What's New on May 12, 2012

Rally Build 2012.05.12-4

No new features released this week

This week we continue to incrementally build features. There are no changes to the user interface.

What's New on May 5, 2012

Rally Build 2012.05.05-3

No new features released this week

This week we continue to incrementally build features. There are no changes to the user interface.

Defects fixed on May 5, 2012

• DE13593 - Community Edition users are not seeing the full Catalog App list

What's New on April 28, 2012

Rally Build 2012.04.28-12

New custom page features

We've made it easier to add and share the apps you use in Rally. The process of creating a new custom page has been streamlined, and all custom pages can now accept multiple apps, layouts, and settings. You can create multiple custom pages, make copies, and share sets of apps with other users in your workspace. Features include:

• Install one or multiple apps on a page
• Change the layout and display of apps
• Filter compatible apps by a given iteration or release
• Share custom pages with other users in your workspace
• Make copies of shared or personal custom pages

Click here to read more about the changes to new and existing custom pages.

Consolidated App Catalog

The new App Catalog combines all of the available apps found on the My Home > Dashboard page with the existing catalog, giving you access to over 90 different ways to examine and work with your data. To access the catalog, select Add App from the Customize Page drop-down menu at the top of custom pages and your dashboard.

Rally Portfolio Manager: Aging on Portfolio Kanban Board

The Portfolio Kanban Board app now displays data on each card indicating how many days or weeks the portfolio item has been in its current state column. Cards will indicate age in days for the first 20 days in a given column, and in weeks after the 21st day.

Defects fixed on April 28, 2012

• DE13192 - SSO users without access to any projects are continually logged out with no error message
• DE13448 - Iteration and Release Scope Change apps are not detecting items added to iterations and releases
• DE13459 - SSO users on the SSO with Exceptions list cannot set their Rally password

What's New on April 21, 2012

Rally Build 2012.04.21-8

Rally Portfolio Manager: Improved Kanban board performance

The Portfolio Kanban Board app has been updated to display only the first 50 cards of the No Entry column. This change reduces loading time when first accessing the board, allowing you to begin moving cards more quickly. You may still move additional cards to the No Entry column after the limit of 50 has been reached.

Defects fixed on April 21, 2012

• DE13048 - Some users unable to send custom report to pdf or email
• DE13121 - Timesheet page not clearing out deleted hours
• DE13261 - HTTP 500 response when performing a fetch operation on attachment fields with REST
• DE13315 - Default custom views result in error screens on Plan > User Stories page
• DE13319 - Rally Idea Manager: Turning off email notifications in profile prevents user from receiving pw reset email

What's New on April 19, 2012

Rally Build 2012.04.14-8

Rally Idea Manager: New Dashboard page

All Rally Idea Manager sites have automatically been upgraded with a new, faster Dashboard page. Features include:

• Activity metrics that can be customized with several options
• Status & category distribution charts
• Fastest risers report
• Average days per status
• New pie, bar, and funnel chart displays
• Hidden ideas removed from statistics and reports

Additionally, the new Dashboard can be enabled for end users by administrators. All sites have this setting disabled by default. To enable the Dashboard page for all users, access the Setup > Site > Components page and select the Dashboard for End Users check box.

Click here to learn more about the new Rally Idea Manager Dashboard, or, Read our Product Blog.

What's New on April 14, 2012

Rally Build 2012.04.14-8

Rally Portfolio Manager: Manual ranking respected on Kanban board

When using the Portfolio Kanban Board app in a manually ranked workspace, the rank of a portfolio item is now respected when cards are dragged from one column to another, or within the same column. A green line will appear in the column when a movement is attempted, indicating where the card will land according to its manual rank. For example, if a card has a manual rank of 2, and you drag the card within the same column, a green line will appear underneath the top-ranked card.

Updated browser support policy

Support for Internet Explorer 6 has been officially depreciated for use with the Rally application. Full support is still available for IE9 and IE8, and limited support is offered for IE7. We will continue our policy of supporting the two most recent production versions of Chrome, Firefox, and Safari browsers. Click here to see the complete policy.

Defects fixed on April 14, 2012

• DE10891 - Some administrators see duplicate field names when creating custom fields for task objects
• DE13126 - SOAP updates generate ignored xml element warnings for read-only fields
• DE13237 - Super Customizable Release Chart not aggregating data properly for some users
• DE13261 - HTTP 500 response when performing a fetch operation on attachment fields with REST
• DE13333 - Trial and Community Edition subscriptions display invalid expiration message at top of page

What's New on April 7, 2012

Rally Build 2012.04.07-18

Rally Portfolio Manager: Kanban WIP limit visual indicators

You may specify a work in progress (WIP) limit for each portfolio item state in your workspace for each portfolio item type:

This value will appear at the top of the Portfolio Kanban Board, and if exceeded, the corresponding column will turn red. You may set this limit to infinity by specifying a value of -1 when editing the State field of a portfolio item.

Rally Idea Manager: Report date filters

Administrators of Rally Idea Manager sites may access reports filtered by a given date range. The date filter option is available from the Setup area of a site. The following reports may be filtered by date:

• User Activity
• Ideas
• Idea Status Change History
• Idea Interest by Company

Users grouped by relevance when filtering by owner

When filtering by the Owner field of a Rally work item, most pages and editor windows will list the available selections in the following order:

• All users
• No entry (no owner assigned)
• You (currently logged in user)
• Team members in the project
• Project editors
• Other workspace users

Relevant users in the project display at the top of the list, improving usability when filtering by the owner of a work item.

Defects fixed on April 7, 2012

• DE9975 - Drag-and-drop movement does not work on Plan>Plan page with no active releases or iterations
• DE12138 - Excel Add-In displays an error when querying users
• DE12918 - Some users see inconsistencies with Defect Trend chart when filtered by a release
• DE13061 - Kanban exit policy not saved when "No Entry" column is active
• DE13273 - Trial subscriptions are missing countdown clock to expiration
• DE13276 - Story splitting editor window hangs if plan estimate field is set as blank
• DE13281 - Rally Product Manager (depreciated product) is incorrectly removed from a subscription after edits

What's New on March 31, 2012

Rally Build 2012.03.31-4

Rally Portfolio Manager: Portfolio states

You may track the state of your portfolio items in their idea-to-delivery lifecycle using the new State field.

If you use the new Portfolio Kanban Board, the State field values are displayed as columns on the board.

By default, the State field has the following default values for all portfolio item types: Discovering, Developing, Measuring, Done.

• If you do not want to track states for one of the portfolio item types, simply delete all state values for the appropriate type. Click here for more info.
• These default states should be replaced with values that represent your idea-to-delivery workflow states.
• Each portfolio item type can have its own state values as the lifecycle of an Initiative may be different from one of a Feature.

Rally Portfolio Manager: Portfolio Kanban Board

You may display your portfolio idea-to-delivery value streams on a Kanban board. The Kanban board is available as a dashboard panel, so you may add it to your Dashboard page underneath the My Home tab, or install it in a custom dashboard page underneath any of the main Rally navigation tabs. Click here for instructions on how to install a custom dashboard with the Portfolio Kanban Board panel.

You can re-rank portfolio items and change the state of portfolio items by simply dragging-and-dropping items on the board.

Upcoming enhancements:

• Visualize WIP limits and WIP limit infractions
• Exit policies listed above each column

Improved story splitting interface

When your team encounters unfinished work after an iteration ends, the new story splitting interface can help you manage a user story and its associated items.

Features include:

• Choose which associated tasks, defects, and test cases are moved to the new user story
• Edit user story names, iteration assignments, schedule states, and estimates
• Discussions and attachments are automatically copied to the new user story
• A parent user story is automatically created to relate both the old and new user stories

Getting Started custom dashboard

New users added to your Rally subscription will be directed to a custom dashboard presentation that explains the key features found in the application, as well as links to other introductory resources. This dashboard will appear automatically after choosing a role. This page will remain as the default landing page each time the user logs into Rally, until the check box directly below the panel is unchecked. Click here to see the new collection of getting started content, linked to at the end of the dashboard presentation.

Defects fixed on March 31, 2012

• DE13202 - Scheduling a new story into an iteration is adding a release by default
• DE13229 - Release Dashboard panel showing incorrect count of days
• DE13264 - When deleting a copied custom view, an error screen displays
• DE13266 - After renaming a custom field, data does not display on the Backlog page

What's New on March 24, 2012

Rally Build 2012.03.24-4

No new features released this week

This week we continue to incrementally build features. There are no changes to the user interface.

Defects fixed on March 24, 2012

• DE13007 - Tags are not deleted after confirmation message appears
• DE13197 - Deleting a tag removes other tags from work items

What's New on March 20, 2012

Rally Build 2012.03.17-4

Rally Portfolio Manager: Timeline zoom persistent states

The zoom feature available on the Portfolio Timeline page has been enhanced to remember the state that was last selected. If you set a zoom level and leave the page, the same setting will persist upon your return. This works independently for each portfolio item type, so you can have a different zoom setting saved for each level of your portfolio item hierarchy.

Defects fixed on March 20, 2012

• DE12851 - Some users unable to delete a release
• DE13124 - Some users unable to link to Iteration Burndown chart
• DE13144 - Defect suite detail page not showing correct number of associated defects

Contacting Customer Support

To contact Rally Customer Support, click the Contact Support link in the lower left corner of the Rally tool.

Support email: rallysupport@rallydev.com
Support Web: http://www.rallydev.com/open-support-case

What's New on March 17, 2012

Rally Build 2012.03.10-4

Rally Portfolio Manager: Portfolio Timeline zoom

If you have Rally Portfolio Manager enabled, a zoom function is available on the Portfolio Timeline page and dashboard panel. You may set the level of zoom by dragging the slider or by selecting the - or + icons in the upper-right corner of the page. Three levels are available:

• Months and weeks
• Years and months
• Years and quarters

What's New on March 10, 2012

Rally Build 2012.03.10-4

No new features released this week

This week we continue to incrementally build features. There are no changes to the user interface.

Defects fixed on March 10, 2012

• DE13108 - My Notifications panel not displaying any results
• DE13114 - Timesheet page not removing tasks

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