Release Notes
Spring 2012
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Contents 5
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
7
Spring 2012 Features ... 7 Resolved Customer Issues ... 8
Chapter 2: Documentation
13
Chapter 3: Documentation Changes
15
CA Agile Vision Integration Guides ... 15 Change the URL for Accessing CA Agile Vision or CA Product Vision Sandbox Environment from CA
Clarity PPM ... 15
Chapter 4: Known Issues
17
Appendix A: Compatibilities
21
Appendix B: Third-Party Acknowledgements
23
Chapter 1: Introduction 7
Chapter 1: Introduction
Welcome to CA Agile Vision™. The information that this document provides can help you get started with this new release.
This section contains the following topics:
Spring 2012 Features (see page 7)
Resolved Customer Issues (see page 8)
Spring 2012 Features
The following features are available in this release:
Impediments
Consistent with Scrum methodology, teams can now track impediments (issues blocking the completion of a task) in Agile Vision. Scrum teams can work more efficiently by logging and tracking multiple impediments for a task. Users can run a report that shows all impediments for a given release, including who owns them and what the status is. Impediments sync with Clarity at the task and project level for visibility by PMO.
Dependencies
Users can now assign dependencies between user stories, providing critical information to scrum teams about how user stories relate to one another. Users can see which stories have dependencies and which do not. Users can also quickly tell which stories are depending on a specific story. CA Agile Vision does not enforce dependencies; team members can work on user stories that depend on other stories.
New Flag Column
The new Flag column in list views provides users quick access to vital information about a backlog item such as impediments and dependencies. By hovering over items in the Flags column, detailed information pops up preventing the need to open the full detail page.
Notifications
User stories and tasks now have a notification area at the top of the detail page that shows important information like dependencies, impediments, and status. This ensures that information critical to the scrum team is noticed and easily accessible. Clicking on the notification area takes the user to the details on the page.
Resolved Customer Issues
8 Release Notes
Clarity Resource Sync Enhancements
For organizations that manage resources using CA Clarity PPM, there is now a way to keep those resources in sync with Salesforce/Agile Vision user accounts. Resources that are not active in Clarity will be marked inactive in Salesforce, allowing administrators to keep user licenses managed from one place.
CA Branded Log-in
CA Agile Vision now uses CA-branding rather than Salesforce.com branding to help orient users within the product. Users can now log in on a page for CA Agile Vision:
cavision.cloudforce.com
Additionally, other communications now have CA Technologies brands on them, such as system generated emails and password resetting.
Resolved Customer Issues
The following problems have been resolved.
Resolved in the Spring 2012 release:
When syncing with Clarity, all characters in the user story name successfully sync to the task name, whether or not the name exceeds the task name limit of 150 characters.
Workarounds:
■ Keep the User story name less than 150 characters.
■ Edit the task name in Clarity to be less than 150 characters.
On the Sprint Backlog & Chart page, if a sprint has 100 user stories and each user story has 15 tasks, Expand All fails.
When there are too many user stories and tasks, you receive an error: "There are too many tasks to expand all. Please select a smaller number of items to show."
Workarounds:
■ Reduce the pagination to be 50 or less
■ Expand only the necessary stories
Clarity sync job fails
When more users are added to the Clarity project than the Agile Vision license allows, an error message was received.
Resolved Customer Issues
Chapter 1: Introduction 9 The Clarity sync job fails with an error.
The sync job fails with the following error: "Updating existing AV User
DUPLICATE_VALUE : duplicate value found: External_ID__c duplicates value on record with id."
The specified charge code value fails to populate the Timesheet, by default.
If a task has a task type in CA Agile Vision, and it has been mapped with a Clarity charge code, the sync job fails to populate the timesheet with the assigned charge code. The user must manually update the timesheet with the correct charge code.
Created Date and Updated Date on Search result shows incorrectly.
When using Search, the result for Created and Updated Date is always 1/1/1970, or 12/31/1969, depending on your locale setting.
Bulk Update does not work on the Backlog page
A javascript error icon is shown in the status bar for IE 8.x when trying to use Bulk Update on the Backlog page.
Using double quotes for a user name prevents auto suggest from finding the user in the Assignee field.
The value for the user name cannot have double quotes. If you enter a blank in the Assignee field on the User Story edit page, user names that have double quotes do not display in the list.
The page size of Tasks and Dependencies on a user story is not saved in server side.
There is no custom settings for page sizes of Tasks and Dependencies on this User Story in Backlog page.
Configuring views on the Backlog for different products, columns widths have unpredictable behavior.
When you add custom attributes to the Backlog view for different products, columns sometimes shrink and the values look left-justified.
When creating a sprint received an error reporting a non-selective query against large object type (more than 100000 rows).
This error appears when Agile Vision is integrated with CA Clarity PPM V13 and causes the sprint creation to fail.
After a Salesforce.com platform upgrade to Spring 2012, the User detail page will not open and shows and error.
When trying to open the User detail page, the following error message appears:
Resolved Customer Issues
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Resolved in the Winter 2012, SP2 release:
Dragging a backlog item onto the Sprint Stories pane and back without releasing the mouse, makes the page hang.
The Backlog page hangs when using drag-and-drop to the Sprint Stories pane. If you drag an item to the Sprint Stories pane and back to the Backlog pane, without dropping the item, the page hangs with the Working icon.
When trying to access an <CA SCM> (SCM) package detail page, you receive an error.
If a CA Agile Vision super user or user tries to open an SCM package detail page, they receive the following error:
SCM: Insufficient Privileges
As a SaaS Clarity customer, changing the URL for an Agile Vision Sandbox or Production environment in a .jar file impacted all users.
Formerly, the URL for the Production or Sandbox environment was specified in a .jar file. You now change the URL in the CA Clarity PPM Administration Tool, on the Vision Admin Settings page.
Resolved in the Winter 2012 release:
Permission groups do not always get set up properly.
After you create a user group and search on the group name, the group does not exist.
Fix Fusion Charts to display Japanese and Chinese.
Charts are not translated.
Timesheet entries are deleted after syncing with a Clarity project when the task assignee does not create the worklog.
A timesheet entry does not sync properly when CA Agile Vision is integrated with CA Clarity PPM.
Timeout Error when running AVEE upgrade
When upgrading from 2.5.3 to Spring 2011 (2.8), running the avee upgrade URL fails with a Timeout Error.
Unable To Get To Backlog
After upgrading to the Spring 2011 version of CA Agile Vision - some Agile Vision Super-Users are unable to get to a backlog. Add support for deleted attributes in customized view in backlog planning page
Resolved Customer Issues
Chapter 1: Introduction 11 Deleting a filter on backlog will cause "Attempt to dereference a null object" error page
An unexpected error has occurred. Your solution provider has been notified. (agile1106011750).
Receive SFDC error when ranking user stories after upgrading to 2.8
User stories that were cloned and the record type was not properly added to the story during cloning were not upgraded properly. When ranking user stories, received the following error: "Update failed. First exception on row 1 with id a0LA0000003Lu67MAC; first error:
FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION, Record Type is required: record type."
Receive SFDC error when ranking the backlog due to inactive team members or team members no longer on the product
When ranking users from the backlog, using drag and drop, received the following SFDC error: "Update failed. First exception on row 1 with id
a0LA000000022wcMAA; first error: FIELD_CUSTOM_VALIDATION_EXCEPTION, User is not a member on product: product name."
Some users in Assigned User column is displayed as SFDC ID rather than name
From the Home page, when filtering the task table to view a team, user names did not display correctly when there were more than 1000 names.
Agile: When syncing with CA Clarity, if the email address of users do not match in capitalization, a chatter update will occur advising the email address of a user changed.
When synchronizing between CA Agile Vision and CA Clarity PPM, there is a chatter feed regarding email address changes.
Production: sorting the assignee will get an incorrect order
When sorting on assignee, the sorting order is incorrect.
Backlog: Create a filter with a blank value in the points attribute may cause the Backlog to fail with an error
When creating a filter with a blank value in the points attribute, an error is returned: "Attempt to de-reference a null object. An unexpected error has occurred."
Previous fix causing an issue with Remaining Hours. Have to add full day to Sprint get correct values.
Sprint Finish dates appear to use something like 12:01am on the finish date, which is dropping a full day of work from remaining hours. If you add an extra day to the Sprint, you get the expected last day of work.
Resolved Customer Issues
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Agile: Too much data can cause error 'ca_agile: Too Many Script Statements: 200001' when accessing the user story & chart page
When the amount of data of user stories and tasks in a sprint is too large, an error is issued. When user accesses the User Story & Charts page, the application loads all of the data in the hierarchy editor list, execute statement reaches the governor limits.
The language setting for Agile Vision user becomes English from Japanese after running Agile Vision Project Sync Job.
The Agile Vision Project Sync Job causes the language setting to change from Japanese to English. (Clarity PPM OnDemand 12.1.0.6 and Agile Vision 2011 Spring Patch release).
Setting or Clearing the Active Field
Clearing the Active field for a project, release, sprint, or team does not make it inactive.
Chapter 2: Documentation 13
Chapter 2: Documentation
The following documentation is available for this release of CA Agile Vision:
■ CA Agile Vision Getting Started Guide
This guide can help you get started with CA Agile Vision as a new user. The guide takes you through setting up and managing your products in CA Agile Vision. A link to the guide is provided in two places in CA Agile Vision so that it is always available to you:
– Agile Vision Home page
– About page for CA Agile Vision.
■ Context-sensitive Online Help
For this release, the context sensitive help for pages that are common between CA Agile Vision and CA Product Vision comes from the CA Agile Vision help. The information that appears in the common topics is appropriate for both products. However, the navigation presented in the procedures pertains only to CA Agile Vision.
Context-sensitive Online Help is provided with CA Agile Vision. Localized versions of the CA Agile Vision Online Help and guides are available within 90 days of product general availability
The entire set of CA Agile Vision guides is available from CA Support and can be accessed from the CA Agile Vision bookshelf. Using this bookshelf, you can view a specific guide or search the entire bookshelf for related information. You can view an HTML version of these guides, download a PDF, or download a .zip of the entire bookshelf.
You can access the bookshelf from the product support page or from the
documentation page. For the latest editions of CA Agile Vision guides, visit CA Support. The CA Agile Vision guides are also available in PDF format from the CA User
Chapter 3: Documentation Changes 15
Chapter 3: Documentation Changes
This section lists changes made to the CA Product Vision documentation since the last release. The list is organized by publication and each topic is labeled as either New or Changed.
CA Agile Vision Integration Guides
The following topics are to be added or updated in this document for the next release.
Change the URL for Accessing CA Agile Vision or CA Product Vision Sandbox Environment from CA Clarity PPM (see page 15)
Change the URL for Accessing CA Agile Vision or CA Product Vision Sandbox
Environment from CA Clarity PPM
Status: Updated
The process for specifying a URL for the CA Agile Vision or CA Product Vision environment has changed.
Note: Change the URL only if you want to access a CA Vision Sandbox environment. If you have not created a Sandbox environment, you do not need to change the URL.
See the Salesforce.com Help & Training for more information.
To change the URL to access a Sandbox environment
1. Open the Vision Admin Settings in the CA Clarity PPM Administration Tool. 2. Enter the URL for Sandbox environment in the CA Vision Environment URL field. 3. Click Save.
Important! If you are upgrading from the previous version AND using sandbox server URL, you also need to update the sandbox URL from the Vision Admin Settings page.
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Chapter 4: Known Issues
The following are known issues in CA Agile Vision:
Use of Decimals in User Story Points
User story points should be expressed as integers only. CA Agile Vision displays story points containing decimals inconsistently. If you are importing user story data using the Data Loader, be sure your user story points do not contain decimals.
Copy/Paste Edit User Story Page URL
Only Agile Vision team members for a project can create and edit user stories. A user can copy and paste the URL for the page and send it to a non-member, and the non-member can then access the page. However, a non-member cannot save any changes. They get an insufficient privilege error message.
Setting or Clearing the Active Field
Clearing the Active field for a project, release, or team does not make it inactive.
Charge Codes are still Assigned to Tasks Even if they are Inactive Workaround
Update the mapping so that only active charge codes are mapped to CA Agile Vision tasks.
Ranking Issues that are Out of Range on the Backlog Throws an Error
If you try to assign a rank that is out of range to an issue on the backlog, an error message appears. For example if only three issues are listed on the backlog and you try to assign a rank of "4" or greater to one of the issues, it throws an error.
Charts are not Displaying in Localized Languages when a Windows Server Setting is Enabled
Charts do not display when you have the Windows Server setting "Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration" enabled.
Complete the following steps to uninstall the security configuration: 1. From the Windows Start menu, select Run.
2. In the Run dialog, enter "appwiz.cpl".
3. From the Add or Remove Programs window, select the Windows Components program.
4. On the Windows Components wizard, unselect the Internet Explorer Enhanced Security Configuration option to disable it.
CA Agile Vision Integration Guides
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Online Help Returns Code Placeholders when you Search on Ampersand ("&")
In the online help when you search on ampersand ("&"), it returns code placeholders.
Globalization Issues with User Interface
For some languages, platform incompatibility caused translation inconsistencies on a few pages, buttons, field labels, and other elements on the user interface. For example, the translated user interface may display English text or truncated text.
Delay in Access to the Product Backlog for New Team Members
After a user is added as a product team member, they may need to wait a few minutes before they can access the product backlog.
User Story Drop-down Displays Custom Values for Issue On Backlog
When editing a user story or issue in-line on the backlog, the drop-down list displays custom values for both. This is because user story and issue are basically the same object in CA Agile Vision.
Chatter Feeds Show User Story Instead of Issue
The chatter feeds show user story even if the update is for an issue. This is because user story and issue are basically the same object in CA Agile Vision.
Searching on AGVN-0, AGVN-T0, or AGVN-E0, displays all results instead of the specified records
When you search on the ID assigned to the first user story, task, or epic that you create (AGVN-0, AGVN-T0, or AGVN-E0), the search results that appear do not return just the specific user story, task, or epic. Instead all user stories, all tasks, or all epics are returned.
Affected Release Missing from Sprint Detail Configuration
From the sprint detail page when you click Configuration, the Affected Release field is missing from the list of configurable fields.
Sprint Detail page has Layout Issues in Safari
The Sprint Detail page displays layout issues when you view it in Safari. This is due to a known issue in Safari.
Workaround
Configure the Sprint Detail page to reduce the number of columns on the page. Alternatively, resize the columns to line up the data in the User Stories & Charts view.
CA Agile Vision Integration Guides
Chapter 4: Known Issues 19 Selection of a release for a backlog issue does not update affected or fix release values for the issue
When you select a release for an issue in the backlog, the affected or fix release values for the issue are not updated. The release information is used only when you set both release and sprint for an issue to display the release to which the sprint belongs.
When installing or upgrading to the new version CA Agile Vision, receive a package installation error
If you receive the following message when installing, or upgrading to, the new version of CA Agile Vision, you need to enable the feed tracking for both Product and Requirement objects.
Package install error
There are problems that prevent this package from being installed.
Problems:
Missing Organization Feature: ca_agile_Project_c.FeedTracking Custom Object Records
Missing Organization Feature: ca_agile_Requirement_c.FeedTracking Custom Object Records
Action
Enable feed tracking
Follow these steps:
1. Click Setup.
The Salesforce.com setup page appears.
2. Click App Setup, Customize, Chatter, and Feed Tracking. 3. Select Product as the object on the left side.
4. Select the Enable feed tracking check box. 5. Click Save.
6. Repeat the previous steps for the Requirement object.
Month of Release Burndown is not translated
In the burndown chart, the month is not translated.
Record types not translated on the Backlog page
On the Backlog page, the Record types "User Story" and "Issue" are not translated under localized languages.
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For Japanese: Quality Center add-in cannot be launched by TestConnection.exe
After installing and configuring the Quality Center add-in, the Japanese localized version cannot be launched by running TextConnection.exe.
The value for the Type column appears in English for a user story on the Epic Hierarchy page.
When displaying linked user stories on the Epic Hierarchy page, the Type column value appears in English. This problem appears in French, German, and Italian.
In-line editing is sometimes disabled on the Backlog page.
If you group columns by Theme on the backlog, in-line editing becomes disabled. When you clear the grouping, in-line editing is restored.
After upgrading to CA Agile Vision Spring 2012, the Flag column sometimes does not appear.
If you have configured the columns on the Backlog page, you need to manually add the Flags column to the list page. Use the Configure button to add the column to display icons when a user story has a dependency or a task an impediment.
I get the following message when I try to share a comment or upload a file on Chatter: "You don't have permission".
You must upgrade to CA Agile Vision Spring 2012 to resolve this error.
Configuring views on the Backlog for different products, columns widths have unpredictable behavior.
When you add custom attributes to the Backlog view for different products, columns sometimes shrink and the values look left-justified. Fixed in Spring 2012.
Workaround for Winter 2012
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Appendix A: Compatibilities
This section contains general compatibility information about CA Agile Vision Spring 2012.
CA Agile Vision runs on the force.com platform and has the same requirements as force.com.
Client Browser
CA Agile Vision supports the following browsers:
Microsoft Windows Apple Mac OS Desktop Linux
Chrome Chrome Chrome
Firefox 5.x, 6x Firefox 5.x, 6x Firefox 5.x, 6x Internet Explorer 8.x
Safari 5.x Safari 5.x
Applications
CA Agile Vision integrates with the following application versions:
CA Clarity PPM JIRA HP Quality Center
12.0.6 On Premise and On Demand 4.1.2 or higher 10.x
12.1 On Premise and On Demand 13.0 On Premise and On Demand
Appendix B: Third-Party Acknowledgements 23
Appendix B: Third-Party Acknowledgements
The license information for third-party utilities and software used by CA Agile Vision is available in the \Bookshelf Files\TPSA (../TPSA/AV_ThirdPartyLicensingDoc.txt) folder in the CA Bookshelf.
