This week we released some more features and most importantly as part of Yodiz Reloaded Migration path, brand new “Issue Tracker” is introduced at “Beta”. We are left with few more views and then most of Yodiz would be ready with new architecture that is faster, flexible and more adaptable to your individual needs.
Brief overview of features & enhancements in this release
- New Issue Tracker (Beta)
- Effort log timer at Issue Board
- Mark down support at comments
- Attachments support at comments
- Special tags vs Standard tags
- Updated Tags management page
- New Graphs
- Issues trend report with date range
- Issues in user stories by sprint
- Issues by special tags in sprint
- Other enhancements
- CSV export improvements
- Tags search and display at Time sheet reports
- Copy link option at Sprint Board
- Filters in Epic (Beta)
- Filters in Backlog (Beta)
- Some Timezone issues fixed
2. Roadmap update for next release contents
In next 2-3 weeks we are going to make another release and it would include
- List view of new Issue Tracker: Based on the feedback, we are adding list view support along with current board based layout. Users would be able to switch between two layouts (list or board) as they like.
- Customizable issue board layout (define columns and map status to them), similar to existing Sprint board customization (more details)
- Support for white label domains and individual email addresses as part of enhancements for “Interact via email” feature.
- Some more improvements and enhancements here and there at Yodiz reloaded beta.
Let’s get into bit more details of new features released this week.
3. Meet the new Yodiz issue tracker
The new issue tracker has more or less same layout and visual design as previous Issue Board. Main difference is in technology speed and flexibility that we are going to offer in next update. Another major difference is in experience of scrolling, previous issue tracker has bit too sensitive scrolling.
Another major upgrade is ability to apply different filters and save them for later usage. For example, if you are only interested in Blocker and Critical issues, you can choose “severity” filter from “more filters” list, select “Blocker” and “Critical” values, apply filter and then save it. Later from drop down you can directly select the filter criteria.
4. Log your effort using timer
Similar like in task, you can now log the efforts using the timer for issues in issue tracker
5. Mark down support at comments holder
You can now bold, italic, list and do other styling actions at comments holder. We have now started supporting mark down editor. Please note that mark down support is only available at comments holder at Modal view (pop-up). You can find complete help article here for your reference ( How to use Yodiz Markup Editor)
6. Attachment to Comments
Again based on lots of feedback, we are adding support to attach files from
- Local Drive
- Dropbox
- Google Drive
You can also use @ icon to tag users
7. Special and Standard tags
Yodiz offers two types of tags, each having different behaviour. Brief details are below, for complete information about special tags check this help article.
7.1. Special Tags
These are special tags that can only be created by person with “Admin Rights”. So its more control way of managing the tags, special tags can be used as features, components, etc.
7.2. Standard Tags
Normal tags are the one that can be created/deleted by any users
8. Improved visual design of tags
At modal view, you can add tags by simply typing or click on the arrow icon or right hand side to open list of all tags. In the auto complete tags list, you will first be shown with Special tags followed by standard tags. Special tags are shown with darker shades compare to standard tags.
9. Tags management
Tags management page has now better layout, clear actions to create standard or special tags. Using context menu, you can convert tags from standard to special and vice versa .
Now you can also rename the existing tag using “Edit” option under context menu. To view associated items to a tag, simple click on tag name and on right hand side panel, you would see associated items list.
10. New graphs
There are 3 new graphs available at Project Dashboard.
11. Issues trend report with date range
Possibility to see the inflow and outflow of issues with custom date range. Beside date you can also select from the list of issue statuses that you are interested in.
11.1. Issues in user story by sprint
This graph show the issues reported in sprint for each user story. It can be useful to track quality of sprint, by observing how many issues reported in each US during a sprint and what are their severities.
Y-axis shows the issues count
X-axis shows the name of User stories
Table below the graph shows the issues by status for each user story.
11.2. Issues by special tags in sprint
This graph shows the issues count in each user story by special tags in sprint.
Y-axis shows the issue count
X-axis shows the name of User stories
This graph can be useful to provide information about count of issues by special tags in a user story, those tags can represent teams, component or feature.
12. Other enhancements
12.1 CSV Export
CSV Export from following area
- Issue tracker
- Sprint Board
- Backlog
Export is supported with tags, custom fields and all the fields included in each of issue, user story or task.
12.2. Tag support for time sheet and reports
Now you can fetch the data based on tags in time sheet and reports
12.3. Copy link from Sprint board
Easily copy link to full page view of issues, tasks and user stories.
12.4. Filters in Epic and planning board
Epics are shown in 3 sub tabs, Open, Closed and All.
12.5. Filters in Backlog (Beta)
Filter the user stories in beta backlog based on statuses like
- Unscheduled (means not in sprint yet)
- In-progress (status)
- Done (status)
12.6. Hide/unHider filters
At both Sprint board and issue tracker, there is button to show/hide filters row. This is useful to gain more space to view data, in case no filters are applied.