Plutora Feature Release Notes Early April 2020

Features Included in the Early April 2020 Release Version Number 2.5.0 Regional Release Schedule Type Schedule* User Acceptance Testing April 9, 2020 Asia-Pacific Release Europe Release Americas Release *Subject to change. Functionality Enhancements SSO Role Assertion Now, User Roles can be asserted in SSO. See examples. Either of the following

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Manage Environment Conflicts Report

Environment Conflicts Report allows users to see and resolve booking conflicts. Location To locate the Environment Conflicts Report: Go to Reporting > Analytics. Search for Environment Conflicts. Layout The Environment Conflicts Report displays the following: Filters: The top section of the Environment Conflicts Report allows the user to filter the data in

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Manage TECRs With Outages Impacting Releases Report

TECRs with Outages Impacting Releases Report allows users to see the Releases which are impacted by TECR Outages. Accountable Environment Managers can then be asked to move the outages. Location To locate the TECRs with Outages Impacting Releases Report Report: Go to Reporting > Analytics. Search for TECRs with Outages Impacting Releases.

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Manage Environment Utilization Report

Environment Utilization Report allows users to see how their Environments and Environment Groups are being used over time. Location To locate the Environment Utilization Report: Go to Reporting > Analytics > Explore > Environments > How are my environments being utilized? Click Environment Utilization. Layout The Environment Utilization Report displays the following: Filters: The

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Plutora Feature Release Notes Late April 2020

Features Included in the Late April 2020 Release Version Number 2.6.0 Regional Release Schedule Type Schedule* User Acceptance Testing April 21, 2020 Asia-Pacific Release Europe Release Americas Release *Subject to change. Functionality Enhancements Environment Schedule TECR Enhancements Now, TECR rows are toggled to hide or display in Environment Schedule via

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Plutora Feature Release Notes Late May 2020

Features Included in the Late May 2020 Release Version Number 2.7.0 Regional Release Schedule Type Schedule* User Acceptance Testing May 22, 2020 Asia-Pacific Release Europe Release Americas Release *Subject to change. Functionality Enhancements Security Enhancements Now: Password complexity rules are enforced for all users and can no longer be set

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Plutora Feature Release Notes Late June 2020

Features Included in the Late June 2020 Release Version Number 2.8.0 Regional Release Schedule Type Schedule* User Acceptance Testing June 23, 2020 Asia-Pacific Release July 2, 2020 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm AEST Europe Release July 6, 2020 1:00 am – 4:00 am BST Americas Release July 5, 2020 9:00

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How Are Environment Booking Conflicts Defined?

Environment booking conflicts are caused by two or more bookings being created for the same Environment or Environment Group during the same time period. Only bookings with a status of Pending will be considered as having a conflict and users can resolve this conflict by either: Approving or rejecting the bookings.Or:

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Manage Environment Drift Report

Environment Drift Report allows users to track version numbers across the Environments of selected Environment Groups. This allows users to track the progress of updates and features through their Environments and be able to tell whether an Environment needs to be updated. Location To locate the Environment Drift Report: Go to Reporting >

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early August 2020

New Features Release – KPIs Dashboard Now: The Release – KPIs Dashboard allows users to track key metrics across releases. Ask Plutora’s Support to make the Release – KPIs Dashboard appear in your navigation menu: Release > Release KPIs.  Initiative Management Audit History API Now, the users of Plutora’s API can view the

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Manage Environment KPIs Dashboard

Environment KPIs Dashboard allows users to track key metrics across Environments. Location To locate the Environment KPIs Dashboard: Request Plutora Support to add Environment KPIs Dashboard to your navigation menu. Go to Environment > Environment KPIs. Layout The Environment KPIs Dashboard displays the following: Date Filters: Set the start date (left) and end

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Manage Deployment KPIs Dashboard

Deployment KPIs Dashboard allows users to track key metrics across Deployment Plans. Location To locate the Deployment KPIs Dashboard: Request Plutora Support to add Deployment KPIs Dashboard to your navigation menu. Go to Deployment > Deployment KPIs. Layout The Deployment KPIs Dashboard displays the following: Date Filters: Set the start date (left) and

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early September 2020

New Features PIR Item Enhancements Now: PIR Item APIs are available to support integrations with external applications. For example, your ITSM or Defect Management application: This includes updates to Attachments and Comments API so you can update PIR Items, Actions, Root Cause Analyses, and Preventative Measures. PIR Containers have been

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System Setup Customization

Introduction System Setup Customization gives Release Managers a better understanding of the impacts related to their projects by allowing Systems to be inherited from: Changes to Project or Independent Releases and via the API: PUT /changes/{changeid}/deliveryReleases/{releaseID} Child Project or Independent Releases to their parent Enterprise Release and via the API: PUT

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early October 2020

New Features Search for Release Owner Now, for Release Manager: The Owner column: Has a grid column filter. Can be filtered using the Query Builder. Deployment Status Now: Enterprise, Project, and Independent Releases have consistent Deployment Statuses for Impacted Systems: Completed Pending Rejected Rollback. Deployment Status is visible in the

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early November 2020

New Features Grid Performance Enhancements Now, for the TECR, TEBR, and Change data grids: Only the visible data columns will be retrieved from the database, resulting in a performance enhancement when fewer columns are displayed. Deployment – KPIs Dashboard Now: The Deployment – KPIs Dashboard allows users to track key

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early December 2020

New Features Finalize Releases with System Deployment Statuses Now, for Enterprise, Project, or Independent Releases: Users will be prompted to confirm the deployment status for each System within a Release when they set the release to an end state. Users can quickly select: All Systems and bulk update the status

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Late January 2021

New Features Release Calendar Share View Now: Users can share their view of Release Calendar by clicking the Share View button, which will copy a URL to their clipboard that can be pasted into another application or document, and opened by other users. After opening the URL and logging into

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Build Setup Customization

Introduction The ‘Builds Setup’ customization allows you to enable/disable: the ‘Builds’ feature to display on the navigation menu store logs from the integrated CI application Refer to Builds for more information on the ‘Builds’ feature. Pre-requisite To be able to customize Builds Setup, you must have ‘Access Customizations’ User Permission. Navigation

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early March 2021

New Features Release Management KPIs Dashboard Now, Release Management KPIs Dashboard allows enterprises to review key release metrics in order to identify positive or negative trends, and identify potential areas for improvement: The new dashboard will be located under: Dashboard > Release KPIs. Users will be able to : Review

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Delete Environment Groups

Introduction You can delete an Environment Group only if it does not have group members. This article provides a brief overview of steps to delete an Environment Group. Pre-requisite You must have ‘Delete Environments’ user permission. The Environment Group must not have a group member. Navigation Environment > Manager Removing Group

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Release Management KPIs Dashboard

Release Management KPIs Dashboard allows enterprises to track key metrics and past performance across Releases. Why Use this Dashboard? KPIs are a retrospective tool, which helps enterprises look at their past performance. Using the Release Management KPIs Dashboard, you can find out: How your enterprise has performed historically. How trends

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Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early May 2021

 New Features Deployment Plan Activity N/A Status Now: Optional Deployment Plan Activities and Milestones can be set to a status of N/A during the Execution of a Deployment Plan if they do not need to be executed: Activities and Milestones with the N/A status are: Treated similarly to the Completed status in the following progress bars: Deployment

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Using Plutora-Info HTTP Header

Users should add a Plutora-Info HTTP header to all Plutora API requests so that Plutora can monitor API usage per script. Plutora-Info can be added to any HTTP request, such as GET, PUT, PUSH, PATCH, DELETE, and so on. Why is the Plutora-Info Header Required? The Plutora-Info HTTP header helps to: Provide

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How Fresh Is My Data?

To find out the time when the data in a Plutora Analytics cube was last refreshed, you can view: A dashboard’s data source, or The full list of data sources. 1a. Find the Data Source of a Dashboard To view the data source of a dashboard: Go to Reporting >

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