Latest Updates of easeOffice

Subtask creation

O4JVSTO-1985

Creation of subtask need to have the parent issue key in the past. Now user can just specify the line number of the parent in current excel sheet.

Data Residency Support

O4JVSTO-1976

Support of data residency feature with US based server integrated to allow usage of easeRequirements for Cloud on US-pinned data.

Field Selection

O4JVSTO-1967

New Jira Cloud Parent-Child relation concept supported by “Parent” field for Epic-links and Subtasks. For Jira Data Center still the current fields “Epic Link” and “Sub-Task Parent Key” supported.

Data type support

EASE-15826

All supported field types including easeRequirements custom fields documented.

Up/Down Load

O4JVSTO-1887

Within Jira Data Center admin can define rate limits for API communication. The plugin consider these limits.

Load Data

O4JVSTO-140

Listed fields for download can be reduced by project selection.

Load Data

O4JVSTO-1886

Performance improvement for tree structure download of easeRequirements Cloud by using more performant API.

Load Data

O4JVSTO-1848

The height of Excel rows is now dynamically adjusted to the cell content of the downloaded data.

Up/Download

O4JVSTO-1544

User fields of Jira Cloud supported in various formats, as email or user name with id.

Upload Data

O4JVSTO-1817

Upload button is enabled after a check was executed before. This is to avoid data modification by manual created table content.

Subtask creation

EASE-18244

Fix issues with the creation of subtask for given parent issue key.

Load Data

EASE-18568
EASE-19386

Huge number of issues in download (>10k issues) caused memory corruption in Excel. Reworked the memory access to avoid these issues.

Load Data

EASE-19074

Fixed: Object reference error message caused by customer specific field content.

Load Data

EASE-18575

Switching of Excel sheets is now supported when the download process is ongoing.

Load Data

EASE-19091

Sort order by easeRequirements tree no considered for Jira Data Center

Check Data

O4JVSTO_1992

Fixed reported error about issue key when a check was done on downloaded Jira data and multiple Excel sheets filled with data.

Upload Data

EASE-19093

Fixed: The upload of new field values for the multi-user selection has caused a validation error.

Upload Data

EASE-18576
EASE-19274

Fixed folder creation issue on easeRequirements for Jira Cloud when the folder names include special characters.

Upload Data

O4JVSTO-1791

Fixed upload error while an admin tries to modify the reporter field.

Configuration

EASE-14039, EASE-14108, EASE-15809, EASE-16263

Source query for the data in your Excel sheet is stored within users setting configuration. Up to last ten used queries remembered, including instance and field selection.

• User can switch between different Excel sheets and refresh/reload or check current data

• Saved files can be opened and updated using original configuration

No (query) data is stored in Excel - save to share export result with customers without revealing internal definitions.

Connection

EASE-18498

Simplified the connection setup, the Jira token is enough to setup a valid connection to R4J Cloud (the unique R4J token is removed). This resolved problems due to R4J version upgrade.

Upload

O4JVSTO-1487

Unknown fields (manually) specified in header highlightend with warning info.

UI

O4JVSTO-857,
O4JVSTO-984, O4JVSTO-1375

Minor UI improvements to streamline functionality (check, reload, connections, icon resolution)

Subtask creation

EASE-18244

Fix issues with the creation of subtask for given parent issue key.

Custom Fields

EASE-18503

Fixed problems with the download and upload of some user picker related fields from Jira Cloud.

Download

EASE-18654, EASE-17924

Fixed problems in communication with Jira Cloud to download issues in correct sort order of R4J tree structure.

Upload

O4JVSTO-1365,
O4JVSTO-1743

Problems with R4J folder structure names in parent/child relation resolved.

Upload

O4JVSTO-1881

Fixed issues with Epic creation.

Check

O4JVSTO-1855

Resolved problems with description field comparison caused by blank spaces at begin/end of text.

Load (R4J only)

EASE-3680, EASE-3758, EASE-7524, EASE-9064, EASE-9725, EASE-9908, EASE-16605, EASE-17663

When R4J path field is selected, the user can select a project which is used for the sorting after download. Applies to R4J on Data Center and R4J on Cloud

Load (R4J only)

EASE-15710

Issues located in one or more R4J CLoud projects are now listed with correct R4J path names (issue summies) instead of issue key.

Upload

O4JVSTO-1749

For new created issues in Jira, the key is added to Excel immediately, not after final summary shown.

Upload (R4J Cloud only)

O4JVSTO-1726

R4J Path variable can consist out of summary names and issue keys of the folders.

Load Data

EASE-17931, EASE-18040,

Fixed issue with load dialog, which caused Excel plugin to crash when using Excel 2019 version

Load Data

EASE-17227

Resolved problem with “ORDER BY” clause in saved filter. Now the order given from the filter is considered.

Upload

EASE-17525

Values of time tracking fields “Original Estimate” and “Remaining Estimate“ always in seconds for easy calculation. The time tracking configuration of Jira are considered.

Upload

O4JVSTO-1725

R4J Cloud: In case a folder name/structure exists multiple times, adding an issue will be interrupted and warning shown to define unique folder names.

Upload

EASE-17525

Upload of values for time tracking fields does not throw a warning anymore.

Load

EASE-17931
EASE-18040

Excel of Office Version 2019 closes not any more while user try to load data from Jira to Excel.

Load

EASE-18001

R4J Path variable is now shown when valid R4J license exist.

Check

EASE-17613

Check feature fixed, now highlights only modified fields. Jira comments do not influence the check feature.

Check

O4JVSTO-1769

Corrected an issue that check of links showed false positives.

Check

O4JVSTO-1396

Corrected an issue that checks failed on data and time fields.

Settings

O4JVSTO-1755

Fixed issues with instance replaced by other instance configuration.

Data Handling

EASE-17525

Support time tracking estimates at up and download

Data Handling

EASE-16975
EASE-16831

For R4J Cloud: Resolve issue keys of folders by folder name

Data Handling

EASE-15710

For Jira Cloud: Use of user account-ID if email is not shared by Jira

Logging

EASE-9838

Logfile includes user operation (abort/cancel etc)

Upload

EASE-17684

Fixed issue with folder of same name on different nodes are not uploaded

Upload

EASE-16846
EASE-16761
EASE-17247
EASE-17307
EASE-17426

Fixed issues with field upload

Download

EASE-17613

Fixed problem of overwriting other sheets in Excel

Download

EASE-15579

Now Excel Plugin remembers selected query and fields again

Authentication

EASE-17484

Fixed issue with token generation