TeamPulse Q3 2010 SP2

 What’s New

• Can now select an iteration on the dashboard
• Selection of hierarchy view in grids is remembered between visits
• Cleaner and more effective story card design
• Spellchecking is now available in all rich text fields

What’s Changed

• Area\Iteration trees are collapsed by default and with only selected nodes expanded
• Memory Tuning – much effort has been invested in reducing the memory usage of TeamPulse.  From our testing TeamPulse now uses 50% less memory and its memory consumption does not grow significantly relative to the length of time it is used.
• Performance improvements – much effort has been invested in improving the performance of TeamPulse. For example, over a 1.5kbs connection:

• Story board loading –  500-1000% improvement
• Progress grid loading – 375% improvement
• Requirements grid loading – 375% improvement
• Planning screen loading – 250% improvement
• Story decomposition loading – 500% improvement

What’s Fixed

Personas

• Exception when a personas name is empty in the database 
• Exception when assigning story to persona from persona catalog
• Exception when try to edit a persona that is not yet created 
• Persona name appears above the position in the persona tab
• No more than five personas could show in persona catalog
• When enter persona position and name and at the same time create one new persona, two personas are created, the new persona and the blank one.
• Associated story will appear with empty name when create new story and associate a persona to it
• Exception when add new persona and press to add another one quickly
• Only after navigating to another screen Persona is added to the personas area in edit story Persona dropdown in stories should show persona name in brackets
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• There is ability to click on the "Back" button when editing selected persona without closing the "Images screen" in persona catalog

Requirements

• Story history incorrectly lists attachment history items with same primary keys in the database
• Storyboard throws an exception when Group By  “None” value
• When clicking on the "Clear all" check box after looking for a specific story in the "Link to an existing story" screen, all linked stories are cleared, not only the searched one.
• If the story has tasks in  “done” state, chart won't change until navigate to another screen is made
• Valid URLs that do not start with 'http://' are not accepted in the external links for a Story
• "Assign" a story to an iteration in View Stories, could not be done, if the iteration is set as the last iteration and the name is too long
• When add file to a story the number of external files does not update immediately  
• Unexpected behavior when selecting “certainty” and don't select “maturity” in the story edit scree and vice versa and proceed with the project analyze functionality.
• Exception when open a story from the grid and then press relationships tab quickly
• In Story Management screen, "Assign Story" button should be dimmed while no stories selected
• Exception when click on add new iteration button while edit story screen opens
• When select multiple stories and click on delete only one story is deleted
• Story history shows test case instead of acceptance criteria
• When add new story in the grid and open it, afterwards quickly  open the dashboard, two warning messages appear
• Bad UI when create new story after enlarge description of the previous story
• Tooltip should give more information in Storyboard
• When clearing the acceptance criteria name, the validation message behave incorrectly 
• When enter large number in story(Priority and Story Points) fields in story board it shows correctly,  although when navigate, it displays the old value
• Export should be prevented while stories loading because the files contains incomplete data
• Export should be prevented while stories loading because the files contains incomplete data
• Exception when enter large amount of numbers in "Work Completed" field in Tasks
• Exception when enter large amount of numbers in "Work Remaining" field in Tasks

Planning

• When deleting the current iteration, not returned or allowed to continue working on the storyboard screen (no iteration selected or could be selected)
• Iteration selector in Dashboard screen does not save new order of iterations when you change them in View Schedule screen
• Specifications by Iteration report shows incorrect values for work completed and work remaining
• Remove from Iteration button should be dimmed when there are no stories selected
• Iteration combo box is cut
• Creating an iteration on the report page causes an error
• Duration field label in TimeLine Settings in not descriptive, need to be Iteration Default Duration
• When open Planning screen after adding Stories to iteration from plan an iteration screen, Iteration content panel will be black and when delete this iteration exception occurred
• Areas/Iterations combo box should be dimmed after selecting "Confirm delete" radio button
• At first open Decompose into work, Filter by Areas and Filter by Iterations combo box is very small
• Multiple selection should be disabled in View Schedule screen
• Exception when selecting  couple of team members from the members’  list and clicking on the  "Manage Team members" button

Project organization

• Users can see and manipulate projects that they do not participate in
• When deleting a project name, more clear validation message is required
• Project name is still displaying in the title after deleting it 
• No scroll bar appears in project description textbox after entering more than five lines
• Wrong behavior when creating new project  and enter a project name while page loads

Global

• When press "Reset Settings", default settings are not applied until you navigate away to another screen
• When selecting member from manage team screen, all other members are checked as well 
• Exception when try to log with user account that contains apostrophe 
• Grid customizations are not properly saved
• Upgrading to a new version of TeamPulse does not refresh the cached version in the browser
• Frequently a message shows saying that another user updating the same information
• Relationships counter does not incremented when add some relationships in story 
• No way to group by best practices except pressing again on "Analyze my project" button