Summary of New Features

Blocking Issues

Team members can easily indicate when an item is blocked and make the blocked status very visible to others. A new menu action right has been added to the grids for Stories, Defects and Test Sets to mark an item as blocked and link directly to an issue that contains the details about the impediment. When an item is blocked, the status is clearly visible in tracking views (My Home, Detail Tracking, Storyboard, Taskboard, etc.), the Details page and in hovers. A new column is available to customize other views of the backlog to display the blocked status elsewhere as well.

Additional Details

• When marking an item as blocked, users can elect to create a new issue or to simply select from any previously identified issue.
• Members who have customized their grid views on tracking pages will not see the blocking indicator by default. These members can either refresh their grid defaults or customize the display to get the blocked indicator displayed on the tracking views.
• Click on the blocking indicator to see the issue(s) blocking the item.
• In grid views, click on the blocking indicator column heading to sort the list by blocked status.

Analytics Updates

Analytics has had a number of minor updates:

• Improved Custom Effort Reporting
• Added relationships for Workitem Details, Task and Test Details, Epic Details and Hierarchy Roll-up, Feature Group Details and Hierarchy Roll-up, Project Details and Hierarchy Roll-up
• Added support for reporting Effort on Custom Fields
• Renamed tables in Custom Reporting based on customer feedback
• Online Help for Custom Reporting
• Updated relationships in Custom Reporting to allow for better reporting on:
• Capacity
• Custom Fields
• Defects Found in Build Run
• Goals Targeted by Project
• Issues
• PrimaryWorkitem Completed In BuildRun
• PrimaryWorkitem Goal
• Programs
• Requests
• Workitem Owner

Datamart Updates

The Datamart has had a number of minor updates:

• Added Dimensions to the Fact.Effort table to allow slicing on PrimaryWorkitem, SecondaryWorkitem, Theme, and Epic
• Added Custom Field columns to the Dim.PrimaryWorkitem table and the Dim.SecondaryWorkitem table

Chrome Support

Take advantage of the speed of Google Chrome to run VersionOne. Chrome 4 has been certified on all supported client platforms as of this release.

Safari Support

Mac users can now run VersionOne on the Mac's native web browser, Safari 4. Use of Safari on Windows is also supported.

Move to Page Ranking

A new multi-select option has been added to move the selected set of items to a given page in the grid. The new Move to Page option appears under the Rank menu selection and allows the user to select any of the pages in the current grid. Items will be moved to the top of the selected page. This option complements the existing Move to Top/Bottom options by allowing movements to a location other than the very top or bottom of the current list. Like the other options, the Move to Page selection works within the currently applied project selection and filters applied to the grid.

API Changes

None.

System Requirements Changes

• Added Google Chrome as a supported browser.
• Added Safari as a supported browser version.
• Removed the Firefox-only limitation on Mac client support.

Miscellaneous

• Action menu selections on common workitems has been split into related groupings: planning actions, tracking actions and other less commonly used actions.
• Although .Net 2.0 is required for VersionOne, it has been tested and confirmed to work on servers that also contain .Net 4.0 applications.
• The Rich Text control has been updated to eliminate differences between browsers and correct miscellaneous issues.
• Clarified terminology on selected relationship grids on several details pages:
• Story Details: This Story Depends on These Stories -> Upstream Dependencies
• Story Details: Stories that Depend on This Story -> Downstream Dependencies.
• Story Details: Issues -> Issues Resolved
• Defect Details: Issues -> Issues Resolved
• Request Details: Stories -> Stories Generated
• Request Details: Defects -> Defects Generated
• Request Details: Issues -> Issues Generated
• Issues Details: Stories -> Stories to Resolve This Issue
• Issues Details: Defects -> Defects to Resolve This Issue
• Issues -> Issues Resolved