Plutora Production Release Notes Minor May 2014

Functional Enhancements

Deployment Manager

Deployments

• Duplicating Deployment Plans.
  • Added the ability to rename the duplicated Deployment Plan on the duplicating window.

Environment Manager

Environment Requests

• Added a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor to the Environment Change Request.
• When adding a layer to the Change Request, the Host, Layer and Component are filtered to show the corresponding existing fields in the Environment.

Environments

• Significantly improved the loading performance of an Environment.
• The user’s position in the Environment data grid is maintained when an Environment is closed.
• Environments can be deleted without removing links.
  • A confirmation window will appear when the user clicks the delete button. This allows the user to delete an Environment without removing the associated links.

Release Manager

Release Manager

• The Gates & Approvals page can now be accessed from the Release.
  • A button, “Visual View” with the blue flag icon has been added to the top right-hand corner of the Release for users to directly access the Gates & Approvals page from the Release.
• Deleting of Activities/Criteria that have child Releases.
  • At the Enterprise level, if the activity (or criteria) is associated with a child release and the user tries to delete it, a confirmation message appears indicating that the associated child activity or criteria will also be deleted.
  • At the Child Release level, if the activity (or criteria) was created from the Enterprise level, then the user will not be able to delete it. This can only be done from the Enterprise level.
• Added a setting which allows the user to choose when the Release in the data grid appears with a red font.
  • Currently, the Release font on the data grid appears red if the implementation date is passed but the user can now choose the last phase end date.
  • This has been added to the user’s personal setting.
• Improved the loading performance of the Release.

Settings

Customization

• Password Complexity Rules added to Login Settings. The Administrator can enable password rules for new users and future password changes.
  • The ability to set the minimum number of characters required for the password.
  • The ability to set the password to have alphanumeric characters.

Common

• Column headers persist when scrolling down on these grids:
  • Release Manager
  • Blockout Periods
  • Changes
  • Environment Requests
  • Environments
  • Systems
  • Deployment Plan.