What's New - November 2019
Release Schedule
Click here for an overview of the PPM Pro release process.
The table below lists this month's product release dates.
What | When |
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Release Notes published | November 1 |
System released to sandbox environments | November 8 |
System released to production environments |
November 15 |
Releases are deployed during the standard maintenance windows.
Reminders
- Features that are ready will enter GA status in the first month's release of each calendar quarter: January, April, July, October. There will be an occasional variance from this schedule. You can enter a support request to move a beta feature into your production environment.
- You can request that beta features be enabled in your production environment by entering a support ticket. Please note that any issues you find will be handled during the normal development cycle.
- Planview sends out status emails in advance of planned releases/updates. These alerts include the date and time window of the update, as well as a link to the release notes that include a list of the issues addressed in the update/release. To subscribe to these alerts, please go to https://status.planview.com/ and click the Subscribe button.
- We hold a live product release webinar - typically on the Wednesday before the production release. This webinar will be hosted by PPM Pro product management and consulting personnel, and will include time for Q&A. Click here to register for the November 13th release webinar.
- Inner circles are offered as a way for our interested customers to collaborate with PPM Pro Product Management and each other, provide feedback on PPM Pro product capabilities, and guide new feature development. Click here for more information or to register.
Update
Release planned for Friday November 22, 2019, pending QA approval.
Function Area | ID | Release Note Description |
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Filters | 936074477 | Fixed. The ability to use the "contains" operator on filters using multi-select lists was added to PPM Pro in a previous release. Subsequently, during the course of troubleshooting a customer issue we discovered that the "is" and "contains" operators were not behaving consistently across the application, particularly for Linked to Portfolio filters and Association filters - most obviously when the filter was operating on multiple list items the "is" and the "contains" operators were evaluating the filter the same way. |
Reports, Odata | 936757996 | Fixed. Odata parsing issue. |
New Feature Matrix
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New Requests! (aka Requests revamp) Legacy requests will continue to be supported for the foreseeable future. You can use legacy requests and new requests side-by-side while you set up the new requests to your liking. Since the new model is different from the legacy in several key ways, we are not planning an automated migration. Remember, you can ask to turn off the New button for legacy requests if you are ready to transition your users over to the new requests. If you do not need any historical data, you can also remove the legacy requests from the UI altogether. |
New functionality
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New: Viewing Request Activities New: Copying Requests New: API and Data Import for Requests Gate Approval Examples, Videos Gate Approval Example - Screenshots Transitioning from Legacy to New Requests
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Reports Revamp |
Current functionality (Rolling beta)
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Beta - available in sandboxes only for November release |
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December Release - Date change |
Due to the end of year holidays, we will be releasing the December release of PPM Pro one week earlier: Release notes - no later than Dec 4 Sandbox: Dec 6 Product: Dec 13 |
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Changes to Calculated Fields |
In order to give users a better user experience, and to continue to tighten security for our customers, there will be some changes to calculated fields. Starting in January the application will strictly adhere to the data type setting on the calculated field. Currently, if you had a field defined as one data type but were using it as another data type, we needed to do special processing with legacy reporting in order to make the field render correctly. For example, a calculated field that has a function that returns a number, but was defined as a string, would still be able to be aggregated in a report. This resulted in inconsistent behavior between fields in the UI and fields in reports. With regard to security, when HTML was used in the formula, but the calculated field was defined as a string (instead of using the HTML display type), we were not able to guarantee against cross-site scripting, even with Strict XSS Protection enabled. |
Target - January 2020 |
Release Notes
Function Area | ID | Release Note Description |
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Filters | 913846017 | Fixed. Resource filters cannot be deleted if they are in use with Timesheet alerts or filter-based groups. Previously, the system was not preventing the filter from being deleted and threw an error if the filter was removed and the user tried to pick a different filter. |
Financial Entries | 926384562 | Fixed. The Actions > History window for financial entries is working as expected; after making a change, the history of the change and previous changes are shown in the History window. |
Global search | 920649511 | Fixed. The Created By field can be configured as a searchable field for Financial Entries. Previously an error was thrown when adding the Created By field to the Searchable Fields for Financial Entries in SSA. To ensure you activate the fix, remove the Created By field from Searchable Fields for Financial Entries and add it back. |
History, Text Fields | 906998144 | Fixed. The value of a text box field is appearing in the entity as expected. Previously, HTML markup was appearing in the field in addition to the field value. |
Internationalization | 924243649 | Fixed. German Umlauts now display correctly. |
Lookup Lists | 912914735 | Fixed. Lookup list values can have associated Description field text. In addition, that text can be deleted if you no longer want to use it. Previously, the system would not allow the Description text to be deleted. |
Managed Staffing | 784664501 | Fixed. (Managed Staffing only) The default Route To value will always be a valid choice (user with the appropriate permissions to staff a resource). Previously, invalid users were selectable from the Route To list. |
Permissions, Projects | 908641043 | Fixed. The Department list on project Details will be read-only if the current user does not have permission to access any department in the list. Previously, a warning symbol was displayed next to the Department list on project details if the current user did not have permission on any Department. |
Projects, Filters | 910328973 | Fixed. Project filters that assign multiple portfolios to the filter field "Project: Linked to Portfolio" returns expected results. Previously, when using the "Project: Linked to Portfolio" filter field and assigning multiple portfolio names, the names were converted to ID numbers, and the filter did not work. |
Projects, Permissions | 919077285 | Fixed. Full users who have Project > Create rights can create projects of as expected. Previously an issue was causing an "Access Denied" message to appear when the user attempted to create a project. |
Requests (legacy), lookup lists | 916546367 | Fixed. Mapping a user-defined multiselect legacy request field to a new project's multiselect UDF works as expected. Previously, the list values were converted to ID numbers, and weren't recognized as lookup list values when creating a new project from the legacy request. |
Reports | 921533811 | Fixed. When configuring a report, the Target droplist shows each entity one time. Previously, the Division and Portfolio entities were listed twice. |
Reports, Filters | 922197149 | Fixed. When running Gantt reports, applying filters that include multiple criteria work as expected. |
Reports, Odata | 913826095 | Fixed: Odata will return results correctly even if field data ends with a backslash (for example C:\). |
SSA, data dictionary | 859024439 | Fixed. Changes made to lookup list labels in the data dictionary are reflected in SSA. Previously, lookup lists that had been renamed in the data dictionary were still using their original labels in SSA. |
Tasks, % Complete | 910846992 | Fixed. When using the Manual percent complete method, the child task percentages are rolling up to the immediate parent only. Previously the rollups were calculated inconsistently.
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Tasks, Spreadsheet-style Editor | 777037033 | Fixed. Tasks can be deleted as expected in spreadsheet-style editor mode. Previously, deleting a task changed the previous task's constraint type. |
UI, Tasks | 919121338 | Fixed. In the task Schedule tab, an overflow menu has been added to accommodate the UI controls (such as the trash bin) that sometimes get pushed off the screen if the current language results in longer labels that cause the buttons to expand and take up more real estate. Previously it appeared that the icons were missing if the window had not been resized to accommodate the larger buttons. The overflow menu should always be visible and provide access to the controls that don't fit on the screen. |