Story to Work Item hyperlinks
Hi,
We re-watched the elipsecon 2008 video demonstrating RTC and had seen 2 features that were demonstrated but not available in RC4 or V1. The first was the timebox and I found the defect explaining why that was removed.
The second is the ability to create a work item from text within a story (or work item) description. You can do this now. However, there are difference that showed the elipsecon2008 demo was a better solution. We can select a sentence in a story and select extract work item from the context menu. This will create a work item. However, in V1, this no longer changes the extracted text to a hiperlink, we have to manually insert a link to the newly created work item, which doesn't look as good as the demo.
The second difference appears to be when you resolve the new work item. In the demo, rtc put a tick against the hiperlink. This does not appear to happen with V1.
Has this functionality been striped out? Or is this a defect?
This was one of the wow factors that convinced us to start using RTC within IBM Hursley CICS TS System Test. We are going to demonstrate RTC next week to other teams in CICS TS and would have liked to point this out as a useful feature.
Cheers,
Michael
We re-watched the elipsecon 2008 video demonstrating RTC and had seen 2 features that were demonstrated but not available in RC4 or V1. The first was the timebox and I found the defect explaining why that was removed.
The second is the ability to create a work item from text within a story (or work item) description. You can do this now. However, there are difference that showed the elipsecon2008 demo was a better solution. We can select a sentence in a story and select extract work item from the context menu. This will create a work item. However, in V1, this no longer changes the extracted text to a hiperlink, we have to manually insert a link to the newly created work item, which doesn't look as good as the demo.
The second difference appears to be when you resolve the new work item. In the demo, rtc put a tick against the hiperlink. This does not appear to happen with V1.
Has this functionality been striped out? Or is this a defect?
This was one of the wow factors that convinced us to start using RTC within IBM Hursley CICS TS System Test. We are going to demonstrate RTC next week to other teams in CICS TS and would have liked to point this out as a useful feature.
Cheers,
Michael
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The second is the ability to create a work item from text within a
story (or work item) description. You can do this now. However,
there are difference that showed the elipsecon2008 demo was a better
solution. We can select a sentence in a story and select extract
work item from the context menu. This will create a work item.
However, in V1, this no longer changes the extracted text to a
hiperlink, we have to manually insert a link to the newly created
work item, which doesn't look as good as the demo.
We used to add a comment to the work item you extracted the new one from, that comment is no longer created because it can lead to a lot of automatically created comments on the same work item.
Another change (not sure if that was in the EclipseCon demo) is that the automatically created comment in the extracted work item referring to the original work item no longer triggers a 'Mentioned' link, here we want to make 'Mentioned' links more useful by avoiding their creation by generated content.
What is still there is the explicit link for which you can choose the type in the Extract Work Item wizard.
The second difference appears to be when you resolve the new work
item. In the demo, rtc put a tick against the hiperlink. This does
not appear to happen with V1.
Has this functionality been striped out? Or is this a defect?
Probably a defect, with which hyperlink do you see this?
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Regards,
Christof
Jazz Work Item team
The first was the timebox and I found the defect explaining why that was removed.
The information previously shown by the timebox is now shown by the work load bars, directly in the iteration plan editor's Planned Items page.
Additionally, you can use the Team Load sections as a replacement for the timebox view. See
https://jazz.net/learn/LearnItem.jsp?href=content/docs/iteration-planning/index.html#teamLoad
for a in-depth discussion of the feature.
You might also want to have a look at
https://jazz.net/learn/LearnItem.jsp?href=content/docs/iteration-planning/index.html#bars
to learn how to read the work load indication.
Regards,
MikeS
Jazz Agile Planning team
I'm happy with the team load view and use it a lot, although it does depress me a lot with how much red there is. :D
The bit with the hyperlink is this. We have Story A that has the following text:-
Do a very important task
We select the text and extract a work item, task 57.
We also insert after the text a link to the work item and we get:-
Do a very important taskTask 57
the elipsecon demo show that when Task 57 was resolved a tick would appear before the Task 57 text. This is not happening. I suspect the functionality is no longer there rather than a defect.
The bit with the hyperlink is this. We have Story A that has the following text:-
Do a very important task
We select the text and extract a work item, task 57.
We also insert after the text a link to the work item and we get:-
Do a very important task
the elipsecon demo show that when Task 57 was resolved a tick would appear before the Task 57 text. This is not happening. I suspect the functionality is no longer there rather than a defect.