RTC M5 - Work Items 소식

Work Item Customization Aliases

To streamline the configuration of Work Item Types and Attributes, Work Item Aliases now appear in the Work Item Type table instead of in a separate table. Work Item aliases are now managed in the Edit Type dialog as a comma separated list.

Work Item Customization Icons

To help save valuable screen space, we've removed the large icons table that was previously in various editors in the process configuration. You can still view the list of icons in any dialogs where you have the option of selecting an icon. In these dialogs, you additionally have the option of adding icons, removing icons, or saving these icons locally on your machine. If you choose to add an icon larger than 16 x 16 pixels, the icon will automatically be resized to fit in those bounds. If you choose to remove an icon currently in use, a warning message will alert you of the icon's usage.

Preview of Work Item Customization for the Web UI

A Preview of some Work Item customization functionality is now available for the Web UI. It is a first glimpse at the UI to add and modify work item types, custom attributes, enumerations, and to set change management type bindings. It can be found in the Work Items tab of a Project Area editor. Please note: since this functionality is not yet complete, for M5 we have disabled that you can save Work Item customization changes.

RTC M4 - Work Items 소식

Improved C/ALM Linking UI

Linking artifacts between different C/ALM tools has been improved. Menus for adding links to artifacts of other tools have been uncluttered and grouped by project link type.

A new link creation dialog simplifies the selection or creation of remote artifacts. The dialog allows users to choose the target service provider for each artifact type individually and choose whether to link to an existing artifact or create a new artifact.

Improved Screen Capture Tool

The screen capture tool is now able to draw arrows and text into the captured image. You can edit, delete, and move text boxes on top of the capture as needed.



In addition to these new drawing capabilities, you can now copy a captured image to the clipboard and paste it into any other application that supports images. You can also easily undo changes made to the capture and revert back to the captured image if necessary.



Having more than one work item editor open in rich client, you can now attach the captured image to any of the open editors directly from a drop down menu in the screen capture tool.

Screen Capture in the Web UI

The screen capture tool can now be used in the Web UI with the same functionality as in the rich client. You can attach a screen capture to the work item you opened the capture tool from or choose to attach it to a new work item or a different one from the same project area.

More Flexible Access Control

Read access for work items could previously only be configured for all or no work items in a project area. Now you can set the project area governing read access on a per work item basis. This project area is independent of the project area where the work item was created.

Depending on how often individual read access has to be configured, you can use the action in the Work Item Editor header or configure a presentation that exposes the "Restricted Access" attribute right within the editors. Queries and bulk modification are also supported.

Manage Releases in the Web UI

Releases of a project area can now be managed from the Web UI. The functionality matches that of the rich client. You can add, update, archive and sort releases.

Not a single line of JavaScript code was written for this feature. Instead, JDojo was used to generate the JavaScript code from Java source.

Team Artifact History

Ever had a hard time searching for a work item or plan you recently displayed? Use the new team artifact history (Navigate | Open Team Artifact History or Ctrl+Shift+3) to quickly search through artifacts you displayed in the past.



At the moment, the supported artifacts are work items, attachments (file name only), queries, plans and wiki pages (name only). You can easily do some housekeeping in the history by deleting individual entries (using the context menu) or clearing the entire history (using the dropdown menu on the popup).

Rich Hover Improvements

Work item rich hovers have been aligned with the features of the work item editor customization. Specifically, the rendering now supports the reference presentation for links, state and condition based visibility of attributes and supports all layouts of the work item editor.



In addition, resolved work items show up in a different color from the quick information presentation and better match the look of the quick information section in the work item editor.

Import and Export Links with CSV

The CSV importer is now able to link work items during import. Links can either refer to existing work items in the repository, or refer to work items in the CSV file itself. It is also possible to udate the links of an existing work item when choosing the corresponding option from the import wizard.

The CSV exporter has been improved to allow for exporting links to the CSV file. Make sure to select all the links you want to export from the wizard.

Work Item Templates

The tool support for work item templates has been significantly improved. All work item attribute types are now supported when capturing or instantiating a template. For example, work items with multi-valued attributes, custom attributes and even attributes of custom enum types are fully supported in templates.

Actions for creating new templates are made more prominent in context menus and in the work item perspective's toolbar. A new history was added for simplifying the instantiation of templates. The history provides quick access to recently used templates and allows for a single-click instantiation of templates with no variables.

A new file export allows for exporting templates into an XML file. The file import wizard was improved and allows for configuring the replacement of templates with same name and/or same identifier.

Support for capturing work break down structures was added to the template creation UI. The wizard for capturing templates from existing work items now shows the complete work break down structure. Templates of complex work break down structures can be created more easily.

Work Item Printing

Work Items can now be printed from the work item editor in the Eclipse UI and Web UI. The presentation is optimized for printing and shows the read-only variant of all attribute presentations.

Editor for bulk change of tags

A new Change Tags action provides bulk change functionality for tags of multiple work items within a single operation. The action is supported by a new tag editor that allows for manipulating multiple tags of selected work items. The change tags action is available from the context menu in the 'Work Items' view. Simply select one or more work items and right click in the 'Tags' column to reveal the 'Change Tags...' action in the context menu.

The Tag Editor operates on the selected work items. It shows every tag that is assigned to the selected work items, and the number of work items a tag is assigned to. The editor provides buttons to add, remove and edit tags, as well as to assign a tag to all selected work items. While 'Add' and 'Edit' can only be used on a single tag, 'Remove' and 'Assign to All' can be applied to multiple tags at once. In addition, the editor provides in-place editing and keyboard support. For example, a tag can be edited by double clicking on its name, or assigned to all work items by double clicking in the 'Assign to' column. Standard keyboard support is provided for the selection and deletion of tags in the table.

Query on Tags

Click on the new tags link in the work item editor to quickly start a query for other work items tagged with the same tag.

Quick Paste into Comments

No need to reveal the comments text field anymore if you have text in the clipboard that you want to add as a comment. Just click anywhere into the discussion area and paste your clipboard. It will show up in the comment text field.

Improved Integration with Eclipse

Eclipse provides artifacts like Problems and Tasks. Until now it was not possible to create new Work Items from these artifacts or run a duplicate search based on their content. Beginning with this milestone you can now do this with the following artifacts:

Create a Work Item from a Problem in the Problems View:



Create a Work Item from a Task in the Tasks View:



Extract a Task work item from the Java Editor using Quick Assist:



Extract a Work Item from selected text in the editor

For the Problems and Task View, you can select more than one artifact to create multiple Work Items for each selected item.

Dependent Enumerations

You can now configure enumerations whose values depend on the value of another enumeration. A typical example is a "Browser" enumeration whose possible values depend on a "Platform" attribute.

You find this feature on the "Process Configuration" tab under "Work Items (Advanced) -> Attribute Customization"

Attribute Validation

Currently, we offer two out-of-the-box validators that can be freely configured:

• Regular Expressions: Enter a regular expression that validates your string attribute
• Number Ranges: Restrict numeric fields to a specific range, e.g. only positive numbers

Along with every validation rule, you can configure its severity and a message that will be shown to the user. A Process Precondition can be enabled to prevent saving a work item which has invalid values.

The following example shows a validator configuration for U.S. Zip codes:

You find this feature on the "Process Configuration" tab under "Work Items (Advanced) -> Attribute Customization"

Default Values

All attributes can now have a freely configurable default value. You could e.g. set the description of every work item to a specific initial text, or initialize a user attribute with a specific user. Supported types are:

• Text and Wiki text attributes
• Users and User Lists
• Iterations
• Categories
• Numbers

You find this feature on the "Process Configuration" tab under "Work Items (Advanced) -> Attribute Customization"

New Implied Attributes Advisor

The "Implied Properites" advisor has been deprecated in favor of the new "Implied Attributes" advisor. The Implied Attributes advisor allows the user to manually select the fields that get unselected on project area change and select whether the Planned For and Owned By fields are set on Start Working and on Resolve.

Usability Enhancements for Workflow Editor

The workflow editor has seen a few changes to enhance usability. These include mnemonics, addition of "Add..." button for Actions and the ability to adjust the order that Actions appear in Work Item editor UIs.