Latest Updates on Office Plugin

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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