New & Noteworthy for Jazz Foundation 7.0.2 M4


Description
Global Configuration Management Work item linking and navigation in a GC context

You can now manage associations between global configurations and Engineering Workflow Management (EWM) releases in the Global Configuration Management (GCM) application.

To know m
ore about the changes that are made to support the work item linking and navigation in a GC context feature, see New & Noteworthy for IBM Engineering Workflow Management 7.0.2 M3 and New & Noteworthy for Jazz Reporting Service 7.0.2 M4.

The following changes are made in GCM area:
  • The Release link type is included in the Global Configuration artifact type by default.

    Image of the Release link type added under the Global Configuration artifact type:


     
  • A wizard is created that imports release links into the new format that is required for version 7.0.2 and later.

    Image of the Import Release Links wizard:


     
  • You can use a release picker dialog box to add release links in a global configuration.

    Image of the release picker dialog box:


     
  • You can use the Release link in query conditions and view it as a result column in the tables.

    Image of a query with Release in the condition and the result:


     
  • The Release link information is added to the rich hover previews of global configurations in the Configuration Context.

    Image of a rich hover preview with Release information:
Links are enhanced in GCM

Links to OSLC artifacts now support the following enhancements:
  • Link labels show the artifact title rather than a plain text URL.
  • Hovering over the link shows a rich hover preview.
For example, the Engineering Workflow Management work item link https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/516108 is displayed as 516108: Add rich hover to link properties in the component/configuration editors, and hovering your mouse over the link shows a rich hover preview.
 
To support the link enhancements, links must be OSLC URLs (such as https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/516108) that are available on a friend server or are registered to the same Jazz Team Server. Non-OSLC URLs (such as https://www.ibm.com or https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Jazz%20Foundation#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.viewWorkItem&id=516108) do not support the rich hover feature.
 
Image of the rich hover in the global configuration editor:
 
Additionally, link properties are added as result columns in tables on the browse pages of both components and configurations, and support the rich hover feature.
 
Image of the Browse Configurations page with Release and References as columns:
Additional attributes in query conditions and result columns

You can now use additional attributes in query conditions and result columns to enhance the query experience.

The following are the newly added query conditions:
  • Committed By [user]
    To find the person who committed the baseline.
  • Committed On [date]
    To find when the commit on the baseline was done.
Image of a query with Committed By and Committed On as conditions:


The following are the newly added result columns:
  • Committed By [user]
  • Committed On [date]
  • Created From [all configurations]
  • From Stream [baselines only]
Image of the new attributes available on the Columns tab:
Web UI Smart people picker component

A new people picker component is now introduced as part of the ongoing user experience transformation and alignment with IBM's open source Carbon Design System. The people picker is a dialog box for selecting users and can be used for assigning an owner or a set of subscribers to an artifact.

The new people picker is common across the following applications:
  • DOORS Next
  • Engineering Insights
  • Engineering Test Management
  • Engineering Workflow Management (including Rhapsody Model Manager)
  • Global Configuration Management
  • Jazz Team Server
The following improvements are included over the classic people picker component:
  • Access control scoping of users
    Only the relevant users are shown as defined in the Access Control setting of the current project area. For instance, if read access is set to Members of the project area hierarchy, then you can see only project area and team area members in the search results.
  • Recent users
    In addition to the current user, you can access the 10 most recently selected users. However, in the current milestone, the Recent list for quick access is limited to the current user.
  • Managing multiple users
    Existing users are preselected in the dialog box. You can add new users or remove existing users. Previously, the people picker only supported addition of new users. Now, you can manage an existing selection set in a single step.
Note: The classic people picker component is not entirely replaced. You can still use it in the Administration UI, and for selecting users when querying and filtering because these use cases require access to all historical users.

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Image of the new people picker component (single-user mode):


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