New features in CollabNet TeamForge 8.0

TeamForge 8.0: All new look and feel

The refined appearance of our TeamForge 8.0 with its alluring shades, totally revamps the users' experience. TeamForge 8.0 has intuitive interfaces and inviting layouts that scale up smoothly. With a focus on simple, direct, and user-friendly interfaces, we have improved the look and feel of the application. In the reform, we have used monochromatic flat design and google web fonts family, Source® Sans Pro, to enrich the user experience.

While the new look and feel of TeamForge 8.0 is giving a facelift to the application, the navigation flow remains the same as you have experienced with our previous version.

Gone are all the gray scale tones in the linked application icons. The linked applications listed in the project navigation bar dazzle in TeamForge 8.0 with the original logo and shades.

Reports

Reporting is one of the major thrust areas of TeamForge 8.0. With a completely revamped user interface, the Reports tab in TeamForge 8.0 becomes your new reporting dashboard. With a well-equipped Reports tab, have all your reports created and managed from one place.

Install/Upgrade

Teams in TeamForge

With the introduction of Team, you can now bring your physical teams into TeamForge. In other words, TeamForge now provides a team's view of backlogs. This helps you plan, collaborate, track and execute your project activities with ease in a team's context. Highlights of the Teams feature are:

• The Teams tree structure for a more stream-lined structure of the team view for a project.
• Team summary and filter table, which provides a comprehensive view of a team's backlogs in a project. This enables you to identify impediments and resolve them faster as a team.

  Similarly, you can configure what you want to see in your team filter table and filter work items depending on the information you want.

• Easy-to-use interface with icons, tooltips and easy navigation facilitate a smooth and hassle-free user experience.

See Manage your project with Teams for more information.

Tracker and Planning Folder list views have been enhanced with Team specific features. You can now configure Team as a column in the filter table of Tracker and Planning Folder list views, and include it for inline edit, mass update and export options. You can also filter the artifacts by teams and subteams in the Trackers list view.

Planning and Task Boards now include a team's view of artifacts, that is, a swimlane representation of artifacts for the selected team in the selected planning folder. Also, when you perform a quick edit of an artifact via Planning and Task Boards, Team is one of the primary attributes you can edit.

Task Board enhancements

You can now edit a task of a backlog item quickly using the new quick edit button in Task Board.

Document management

You now have the option to set the existing document folder permissions - create, edit and delete - for documents alone using the new option Documents on the Documents Permissions page (Project Admin > Permissions > Edit Role > Documents). This is to restrict project members from handling document folders or subfolders. For example, if you do not want a project member to create a document folder, but only create a document within a specific folder, you can set the 'Create/View' permission only for documents.

Tracker

• Email notifications

  When a tracker is modified, the tracker field modifications are included in the email and sent to the users monitoring the tracker.

• Calculate Points

  In a parent artifact, you can now sum and roll up the story points from all its children artifacts by selecting the new field, CALCULATE POINTS. You can also enable the tracker to include children of other projects across TeamForge (foreign children) in this calculation.

  

• Clone tracker

  You can now clone trackers along with workflow within a project or across projects. During inter-project tracker cloning, user roles found in the source project's tracker workflow, if not present in the destination project, can be created by a project administrator. However, the new role will not have the associated user permissions but the name as displayed in the source project. Note that a tracker administrator cannot create new roles while cloning the tracker across projects.

Wiki

The FCKeditor is now upgraded to CKEditor. You can style the text and add rich media contents to your wiki pages in real time by using the WYSIWYG editor.

Nexus integration/Integrated apps

• Nexus integration

  TeamForge 8.0 supports integration with Nexus OSS, an open source repository manager for binary artifacts. By default, TeamForge 8.0 installer installs a binary application (referred to as the 'binary app' hereinafter), which is essentially a launching pad for all binary integrated applications such as Nexus OSS. Once this binary app is installed as part of TeamForge 8.0 installation, you can integrate your Nexus servers and repositories with TeamForge.

  Though the binary app is installed by default with TeamForge 8.0, you can change the value of the site option token, BINARY_SETUP_TYPE, to skip binary app installation altogether. You can also have this token configured to have the binary app rolled out for all projects (both existing and new projects to be created) or only for new projects to be created or for select projects on a need basis.

  Also see:

  • Set up Nexus
  • Manage binaries
• Grouping integrated apps

  Categorizing integrated applications is a new feature in TeamForge 8.0. Existing integrated applications are listed under Generic tab. If required, a set of integrated applications can be classified and displayed under different Category tabs.

  
• New configuration parameter

  If the search option is enabled in the application you are integrating with TeamForge, you can have the integrated application listed under the Jump to ID search and Advanced Search options. A new parameter, is_search_supported, determines whether the integrated application is available in the list of search options. By default, is_search_supported is set to FALSE for all integrated applications but Project Tracker.

Site administration: Site activity notifications

A new site option token, NOTIFY_SITE_ADMINS_FOR_SITE_ACTIVITIES, can be used to receive email notifications on operations at the site level that include create users, create projects, black-list users, and SCM operations.

SCM

More validations during commits