Plutora Feature Release Notes For Early May 2021

 New Features

Deployment Plan Activity N/A Status

• 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 Plan Activities tab.
      • Master Deployment Plan Activity Sets tab.
      • The Deployment > Manager grid Activity Summary & Progress column.
      • The Deployment > Manager grid Status column when the Deployment Plan is set to Completed mode.

• • Indicated in the Overview panel of the Information tab and not considered overdue.
  • Removed from the Deployment Plan’s time remaining.

• Command Center shows the count of activities in a N/A status in the Activity Summary panel.
• Deployment Schedule and its Deployment Plan pop up shows activities in a N/A status in gray, and Activities and Milestones that are N/A will be treated as On Time.
• Activities By Status will show any activities in a N/A status and not consider them as Overdue.
• If only optional Activities or Milestones are selected, users can bulk update the Activity Status to N/A.
• Optional Activities and Milestone set to N/A will have an empty actual start and end date by default.
• The N/A status can be renamed in the Activities Status Customization.
• For the Deployment Plan Activity entity in Email Template Wizard:

• • Optional activities can be set to a status of N/A, along with the other statuses, if the [[Update_via_secure_URL]] has been included in the email.
  • Optional Activities with the status N/A will be ignored for the following email triggers:

• • • Activity is about to start.
    • Activity hasn’t started on time.
    • Activity hasn’t ended on time.
    • Activity completed.

• • The entity field [[Deployment_Activity_Status]] has been added.

• Optional activities can be set to a status of N/A via Plutora’s APIs.

Deployment Plan Activity Dependency Enhancements

Now:

• Deployment Plan Activities and Milestones that are locked by an Activity dependency are indicated by a padlock on their status icon.
• The padlock appears in the Deployment Plan Activities tab Status columns in Grid and Timeline View and in the Activity details panel.
• Grid View also has a new Dependencies column, which lists the count of dependent Activities and Milestones.

Deployment Plan Timeline Usability Enhancements

Now:

• In the Deployment Plan Activities tab Timeline View, user interface controls have been separated so that they are easier to use:

• • The clickable areas for the following actions have been clearly separated for ease of use:

• • • Moving Activities.
    • Moving just the start or the end date.
    • Adding activity dependencies.
• A Responsible column has been added to the Timeline View.
• Start and end dates can now be found in a tooltip that appears when hovering the mouse cursor over an Activity or Milestone.
• Only a single click on a dependency is required to open the deletion pop up.
• The Group Name collapse and expand buttons now have a tooltip describing what they do.

Bug Fixes

• 18822, 18825, 19344: [Deployment Plan] Master Deployment Plans with Checkpoint questions can now be duplicated.
• 18963: [Deployment Plan] Changing a child Deployment Plan's association to another Master Deployment Plan will now remove its Activities from the first Master Deployment Plan.
• 19485: [Environment Map] Environment Groups with large numbers of connections now have improved performance.

Version Number

2.16.0

Regional Release Schedule

*Subject to change.