Plutora Production Release Notes Minor July 2014

Functional Enhancements in Release 2.0.87

Environment Manager

Environment Requests

• Environment duplication validation check
  • When trying to add a new Environment with an existing Environment Name, a validation check appears. This also occurs for duplicating or editing Environments with existing names.
• Allow Bulk Update on the Environment Change Request grid
  • A new ‘Bulk Update’ button has been added to the Environment Change Request grid. When the user clicks the ‘Action’ button on the top-right hand corner of the ECR data grid, this button will be displayed.
  • New checkbox column has been added to allow the user to select at least two rows for bulk update.
  • ‘Bulk Update Environment Change Request’ permission button has been added to the ‘Manage Role & Permissions’ popup window under the ‘User Management’ module to set bulk update permission based on the user roles.
• Allow Duplicate Requests on the Environment Request grid
  • A new ‘Duplicate Request’ button has been added to the Environment Change Request grid and Environment Booking Request grid. When the user clicks the ‘Action’ button on the top-right hand corner of the data grid, this button will be displayed.
  • Users can duplicate Environment Request based on the current selected Request.
• Add “Raised” field to Environment Change Request Window
  • A new “Raised” field has been added to ECR to indicate when the Change Request was raised.
• Hyperlink Environment Change and Booking Request number
  • When clicking the Change and Booking Request number, this will open the corresponding Booking and Change Request.

Release Manager

Release Manager

• New column has been added to the Deployment Window
  • ‘Deployment Start Date’ and ‘Deployment End Date’ now replace the previously ‘System Deployment Date’.
  • The new default Start Date and End Date will take on the value of the Release Implementation Date.
  • Existing Deployment Dates will transfer to the Start and End Date.
• Release Data Grid performance enhancement
  • The performance of loading the releases grid has been improved dramatically.
• Users can update the Release Status from any of the tabs in the Release
  • Previously the Release Status could only be updated under the ‘Release’ tab.
• Users can change the existing stakeholder under the Stakeholders Tab of a Release
  • All activities that are assigned to the previous stakeholder will now be assigned to the updated stakeholder.
• “Child Push” confirmation (success) window enhancement
  • “Child Push” Window has been resized to include H-Scroll bars to improve usability.
  • Users now can scroll down when there are more releases.
• The collapse/expand status of “Parent Releases” in the release grid will be saved
  • The state of collapse/expand of “Parent Release” will stay as before when the user comes back to the Releases Datagrid .
• “Deployment date” under “Systems” tab of a Release has been widened to enhance usability.

Common

• Query Builder
  • To improve user experience, the user can hit ‘enter’ on the keyboard to run the query if all validations are met.

• Release Activities assigned to you popup window enhancement
  • Added new column that displays the Enterprise Release ID/Name.
  • Column level filtering and live search have been applied to ‘Enterprise Release ID/Name’, ‘Release ID/Name’ and ‘Title’ and ‘Activity Type’ columns.

• Activity/Criteria Notifications
  • Users can enable the option to allow the updating of activities or criteria via a Secure Email Link without logging into Plutora.
  • This can be enabled in the Customization settings, under the Email Notifications section. The user should then choose the Activities & Criteria tab to see the available options.