Features Included in the Late April 2020 Release
Regional Release Schedule
*Subject to change.
Functionality Enhancements
User Story 1: “As an Environment Manager, I want the ability to toggle the display of TECRs via a checkbox in the Environment Schedule Quick Filter, so I can easily hide or display all the TECR rows.”
User Story 2: “As a Release Manager or Environment Manager, I want TECRs containing outages to display an icon on the Environment Schedule, so I can easily tell whether a TECR might have a higher impact on my Environments.”
Environment Schedule TECR Enhancements
- Now, TECR rows are toggled to hide or display in Environment Schedule via a TECR checkbox in the Quick Filter, instead of being opened by clicking on a wrench icon in every row.
- The wrench icons have been removed in all views.
- In Environment View in Environment Schedule:
- TECRs are now displayed for each Environment and are visible with all groupings.
- TECR rows will now be visible, even if no bookings exist for the Environment.
A migration during the release will change the settings in Environment Schedule – TECR Row to Save per User for all customers.
- Now, TECRs with outages will display a triangular icon so you can easily tell whether a TECR might have a higher impact on your Environment.
User Story 1: “As an Environment Manager, I want to see booking statuses and conflicts, with consistent booking status colors, on all views of the Environment Schedule and throughout Plutora, so I can easily see the status of each booking.”
User Story 2: “As a Release Manager or Environment Manager, I want the ability to hide or display rejected bookings on the Environment Schedule, so that I can choose to show only Approved or Pending bookings.“
Booking Statuses and Conflicts
- Now, you can see the status of bookings and conflicts on all the views (Environment, Environment Group, Release, and Overview) of the Environment Schedule.
- Environment Schedule’s Quick Filter Show Environment Conflicts checkbox has been renamed Booking & Conflict Status.
- Now, consistent booking status colors are used throughout Plutora including:
- Environment Schedule, where the status bar on bookings is now thinner and neater.
- Enterprise, Project, and Independent Releases.
- TEBRs (with and without a Release).
- My Environment Bookings tab in Environment Requests.
- Anywhere the View/Edit My Environment Booking pop up appears. For example, when bulk updating Environment Requests.
- The booking status colors are:
- Green: Approved.
- Yellow: Pending without conflicts.
- Red: Pending with one or more conflicts.
- Dark Red: Rejected.
- Now, rejected bookings can be displayed or hidden in Environment Schedule using the Rejected Bookings checkbox in the Quick Filter.
“As an Environment Manager, I want to approve or reject bookings from all views in the Environment Schedule, so I can perform my job more easily.”
Booking Management Enhancement
- Now, clicking on all booking types (Release bookings and TEBRs with or without a Release) in all views of the Environment Schedule consistently opens the View/Edit My Environment Booking pop up so that the booking can be approved or rejected.
- You can navigate to the linked Release or TEBR from the pop up.
“As an Environment Manager, I want to see how my Environments are utilized so I can keep track of what resources are being used.”
Environment Utilization Report Enhancement
- Now, the Environment Utilization Report (which shows the overall Environment and Environment Group utilization for selected dates) has been enhanced with more totals data and the fixing of a few minor issues.
“As a Deployment Plan Owner, I want to filter activities so that I only see the ones I need.”
Deployment Plan Activity Grid Column Filtering
- Now, under the Grid view of the Deployment Plan Activities tab:
- Deployment Plan Activities have grid column filtering:
- Name and Description columns can be filtered by keyword search and Status, Responsible, Milestone, Optional, and Downtime by drop-down menu.
- Responsible column filters by all of the Deployment Plan’s Stakeholders.
- Start Date filters greater than or equal to the filter date.
- End Date filters less than or equal to the filter date.
- Planned Duration cannot be filtered but can be sorted.
- Filtering in the Grid View carries over to the Timeline View.
- Live Search has been removed. Filtering by the Name column replaces this functionality.
- Deployment Plan Activities have grid column filtering:
Resolved Support Issues
Plutora
- 00000: [Environment Schedule] Rejected bookings will no longer cause conflicts.
- 15791: [API, Release Manager, Changes, TEBRs, and TECRs] Statuses updated via the API now also update workflows.
- 16488: [Release Manager] Bulk updating the Status of Changes under the Change tab is now recorded in the Audit History.
- 16900: [Email Template Wizard] Status is now appearing in the subject line and body of Initiative Management emails.
- 16958: [Changes] Marking a Release as an Actual Delivery Release no longer produces an unhandled exception error.
- 17061: [Environment Manager] Audit History now shows deleted Components instead of their Layer GUID.
- 17196: [Insights and Releases Phases Customization] Deleting a Phase now deletes its association with its Insights Harvey Ball.
- 17273: [API] Calls to PUT /release/{id} now prevent two Releases with the same Release ID from being created.
- 17292: [Release Activities] A user with Release Activity My Portfolio Association user permissions can now save Release Activities after assigning that Release to their Portfolio Association.
- 17354, 17369: [Release Manager] Changes can now be filtered under the Change tab.
- 17445: [Deployment Plan and User Management] Users can now add attachments to Deployment Plan Activities within their Portfolio Association.
- 17445, 17571: [Deployment Plan] Attachments can now be deleted.
- 17506: [Initiative Management] Data tables now expand to show all their data.
- 17543: [Custom Scripts Customization] The Save Trigger now works for the Entity Type Deployment Plan.
- 17645: [Environment Manager] New users with all the Environment user permissions can now see Environments in the grid when they log in for the first time.
