New! We've polished the user interface of R4J

Expect great new usability and design updates applied in version 5.0 released on October 31st, 2024.

easeRequirements for Jira is the new R4J

• We've rebranded R4J into easeRequirements for Jira.

• We've updated our logo.

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Page navigation improved

• Say goodbye to the old page navigation. Introducing the new navigation bar! Now, page navigation has been made easier for you.

• Easily navigate to different pages within easeRequirements with just a few clicks.

• We've combined Coverage & Traceability, and Baseline & All Baselines pages into a dropdown selection. Simply select the page option you wish to navigate to.

• General and Administration page options are also accessible from the navigation bar. Simply click the hamburger menu and select the page option you wish to navigate to.

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We've added a navigation bar for General & Administration pages

Context menu improved

• Now you can see a reordered and grouped context menu options by relation. Applicable in Tree context menu, Reading View context menu, and Tabular View context menu

  • Folder context menu:

  • Issue context menu:

  • Page context menu:

  • Multi-selection context menu:

We've moved the location of the Export options

• Easily perform export by selecting an item then select from "Export/Import" context menu option. Applicable for Tree, Reading and Tabular views

  • Export from Tree

  • Export from Reading view

  • Export from Tabular view

Tree sidebar UI updates

• We've updated the look and feel of the tree sidebar

• We've moved the ¹Refresh tree, ²Filter tree, ³Configure display fields, and ⁴Remember tree selection options above the tree

More Tree View Display Fields

• We've added more options in the selection for the tree display fields. New options for tree display fields:

  • Folder items:

    • Attachment (Icon)

    • Item Details (Icon)

  • Issue items:

    • Attachment (Icon)

    • Item Details (Icon)

    • Flagged (Icon)

    • Issue type

    • Priority

    • Due Date

    • Resolution

    • Security level

    • Custom fields

• We've moved the Issue tooltip in tree option as Item Details (Icon) tree display fields. Issue tooltip will display when the "" icon is hovered.

Parent-child Linking in easeRequirements Tree

• An easy option to create a parent-child link when an issue is added to the Tree

• We've added a new option in the Create Linked Issue dialog to create and link issue with parent-child linking as child, as sibling, or not to the tree

  • as child - It will create, link, and add issue as a child requirement in tree

  • as sibling - It will create, link, and add issue as same level of the selected tree item

  • not to the tree - It will create and link issue but it will not be added to the tree

• We've added a Create link option in the Add Existing Issues dialog to add an existing issue with parent-child linking

Issue Detail View with Unified link table

• We've combined the Issue Links, Child Requirements, Sub-Tasks and Issues in Epic sections into one section named ¹Linked Issues

• The Linked Issues table contains the the following columns. 

  • Link type - displays the link type name between the source and target issues. Otherwise, display as empty if there is no issue link.

  • Direction - displays the link type direction as arrow symbols. Otherwise, display as empty if there is no issue link.

    • → - a symbol for outward link with "Outward" tooltip when hovered.

    • ← - a symbol for inward link with "Inward" tooltip when hovered.

    • ↔ - a symbol for bidirectional link with "Bidirectional" tooltip when hovered.

  • Type - displays the issue type icon

  • Key - displays the issue key as hyperlink to the issue in tree

  • Summary - displays the issue summary

  • Priority - displays the issue priority icon

  • Status - displays the issue status icon

  • Origin - displays the origin type to classify the link

    • LINK - origin type for other issues in Jira or remote link issues (e.g. confluence page or web links) linked to the issue 

    • TREE - origin type for child requirements in the easeRequirements Tree

    • SUB-TASK - origin type for Sub-task issues

    • EPIC - origin type for issues with Epic link

    • IN EPIC -  origin type for Issues in Epic

  • Action - displays a dropdown menu for the operations

• ²Link operation options (Display as graph, Add link, Create linked issue, Add child issue, and Create child issue) are now combined into a dropdown selection

• We can easily ³sort, and ⁴filter the linked issues accordingly

• We've added a ⁵Show more functionality when the list of linked issues is greater than 5. Clicking this will load all the data

   

• Linked issue items of specific type of origin has a corresponding actions

  • LINK- Jira linked issues origin dropdown menu options

    • Linked issues without suspect mark

    • Link issues with suspect mark

  • LINK- Remote linked issues origin dropdown menu options

    • Confluence page

    • Web link

  • TREE origin dropdown menu options

  • SUB-TASK origin dropdown menu options

  • IN EPIC origin dropdown menu options

  • EPIC origin has no action

Coverage UI changes

• The overall coverage UI page has undergone significant changes.

• The coverage sidebar is now a tree structure, with each item context-clickable to show applicable actions. Views can be repositioned anywhere within the tree.

• We've added a "New View" button in the sidebar in which you can clear and create coverage view easily.

• The table header now features an inline editable name and other table-related operations.

  • UI state when saving a new view

  • UI state when saving a copy of an existing view
    
    

  • UI state when renaming a view
    
    

  • UI state when modifying a view configuration

• The Create linked issue, Link existing issue, and Remove issue link options in coverage table cell are now merged into a dropdown selection

• Create linked issue is now a dialog with new fields to create linked issue from other project and issue type.

• Performance improvements have been made to the coverage table by loading only the visible data.

Baseline UI changes

New UI Baseline Detail - List View

• Baseline actions have been repositioned to accommodate the new navigation bar.

  1. The 'Expand All' and 'Collapse All' actions have been repositioned and merged into a single button.

  2. Other baseline-related actions have been repositioned under the new navigation bar.

  3. The collapsed table will now display the Summary field regardless of the display field configuration.

New UI Baseline Detail - Tree View

• We've added a ¹Display Fields selector in baseline detail tree view. Now, you can configure the display fields in the detail view.

• ²Baseline actions have been repositioned under the new navigation bar.

New UI Baseline Compare - List view

• We've repositioned the Visual view toggle in the compare table headers

New UI Baseline Compare - Tree view

• We've repositioned the Visual view toggle on the left side of revision details. It will only be visible if the selected tree item is issue or page.

easeRequirements toast messages UI updates

• We've repositioned the toast messages of easeRequirements on the lower right.

Plugin information UI updates

• We've updated the look and feel of the plugin information.

• To view it, click the hamburger menu then select "About easeRequirements".

• It contains the plugin name and version, "Suggest a new feature" link, & "Read our documentation" link.

Lastly, we guide you by the Tour functionality

• When visiting the new easeRequirements for the first time, you will be guided through the important changes by a tour automatically.

• To restart it, click the hamburger menu then Start tour.