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Jama Connect Interchange™ Administrator Guide

By Decoteau posted 6 days ago
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To learn more about Jama Connect Interchange, please contact your Account Manager.  Overview   Jama Connect Interchange ™  is a web framework that simplifies the process of linking data across multiple product development applications.    This document describes the Jama Connect-to-Jira module, which allows you to automatically link  Items  in Jama Connect to  Issue Types  such as Stories or Defects in a Jira Cloud project.    Configuring integrations   Jama Connect Interchange includes a simple web interface that the Jama Connect organization administrator uses to set up one or more integrations between their Jama Connect ...
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Release Schedule for Best Effort Versions of Jama Connect

By Decoteau posted 20 days ago
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Release Schedule for Best Effort Versions of Jama Connect Release Schedule for Supported Versions and future Versions of Jama Connected located HERE . Release Planned Dates  End of Life (EOL) 8.33.0 Cloud January 12, 2019 Express 8.24 - Jan 2019 8.34.0 Cloud February 9, 2019 8.35.0 Cloud March 13, 2019 8.36.0 Cloud April 10, 2019 8.36.0 Standard April 16, 2019 Legacy Jira Connectors - April 2019 8.37.0 Cloud May 8, 2019 8.38.0 Cloud June 8, 2019 8.39.0 Cloud July 13, 2019 Jama Analyze - July 2019 ...
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Jama Connect 8.66 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 20 days ago
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Release date US/EU: 2021/10/15 Release date AU: 2021/10/16   Integrating OSLC Model Connector with Jama Connect With this release, you can now integrate the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) model connector with Jama Connect through Smartfacts. This integration provides clear visibility to model artifacts in real-time, further enhancing your Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) approach. Important:  Contact your Jama Software Account Manager to set up access to the OSLC Model Connector and MID Smartfacts. For more information, see   Jama Connect OSLC Model Connector Datasheet .   In Single Item View, you can configure specific ...
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Jama Connect 8.65 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 08-30-2021
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Release date US/EU: 2021/09/17 Release date AU: 2021/09/18   The Review Center header gets a new look This release continues the introduction of a new interface design for the Jama Connect Review Center. For a consistent and organized user experience, we created a standardized design pattern to make actions and views more visible. Buttons replace drop-down menus and interactive links (breadcrumb navigation) now indicate the location in your project hierarchy. Add multiple items with "Quick add" When brainstorming with your team, you may want to quickly capture the flow of ideas. In Jama Connect, the Quick add option lets you easily add multiple ...
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Jama Connect 8.62.3 - Self-hosted

By Chloe posted 08-26-2021
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Release date AU/EMEA/US: 2021/08/27   Jama Connect 8.62.3 - Self-hosted Customize SAML/OAuth database configurations Added capability for the configuration for the two database schemas required to support the new SAML and OAuth authentication options and the installation the 8.62 Standard release. You can now determine the usernames, password and database schema names for both the SAML and OAuth services in both MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server.   Notes for on-premises administrators   New database schemas are required for this release Before you can install or upgrade to the Jama Connect 8.62.3 release you must first create two new database schemas ...
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Jama Connect 8.64 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 08-09-2021
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Release date US/EU: 2021/08/20 Release date AU: 2021/08/21   Updates from customer feedback Project Admins can now unlock user-locked items in Single Item View. Organizational Admins can now apply a setting which will allow two locked items to be related to each other. Resolved issues ID Description SOS-DEF-2637  Locked items can be unlocked by a project admin with the appropriate permissions.  SOS-DEF-4625 Users with create/edit permissions can now assign a test case to a test group from the API using POST /testplans/{id}/testgroups/{testGroupId}/testcases. SOS-DEF-5334 Project ...
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Jama Connect 8.63.1 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 07-30-2021
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Release date US: 2021/08/03 Release date AU/EU: 2021/08/04   The Jama Connect header gets a new look This release continues the introduction of a new interface design for the Jama Connect content headers. For a consistent and organized user experience, we created a standardized design pattern to make actions and views more visible. Buttons replace drop-down menus and interactive links (breadcrumb navigation) now indicate the location in your project hierarchy.    The header is divided into two sections: Views —  Information and actions that relate to the presentation of your data.  Actions —  The things you can do with the currently displayed ...
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Intro to Dashboard Widgets: Creating Bar & Pie Charts

By Ryan posted 07-26-2021
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Introduction A best practice for managing projects within Jama is to create and maintain project dashboards. Project dashboards leverage dashboard widgets for tracking key project metrics and may be modified as the project progresses. Creating a Project Dashboard has (but is not limited to) the following benefits: - Visibility for tracking statuses Bar graphs and pie charts are leveraged to display important project metrics Dashboard widgets are interactive: Easily click into a specific status (i.e. requirements in “draft” state or requirements in “approved” state) Allows for team members to quickly access content areas requiring attention ...
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Jama Connect 8.63 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 07-09-2021
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Release date US: 2021/07/23 Release date AU/EU: 2021/07/24 Usability improvements You can now resize review comment windows.    Updates from customer feedback In List View, you can now remove tags when you bulk edit items. Resolved issues ID Description SOS-DEF-5044 When you batch edit items from filter results, you can no longer update release and tag values from another project. SOS-DEF-5138 When the rich text editor is maximized, the formatting bar and header are now correctly displayed. SOS-DEF-5153 You can now save and add another item from Single Item View. SOS-DEF-5302 ...
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Quick Guide to Navigating the Velocity API documentation

By Shawnna posted 06-30-2021
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When creating a Velocity report you will need to call the Jama Velocity API, but at first glance it can be overwhelming. This short guide is intended to give some clarity to navigating the documentation. When visiting the API home page , select the version of Jama the report will be running against (the links in this article will be to the most recent self hosted version). The Getting Started section gives you a quick look at a few of the tools you can use in your report (and you can find more details about how to code in Velocity here ). Commonly used examples in the generic Velocity tools and libraries include: Turn a value into an integer: $mathTool.toInteger( ...
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Jama Connect 8.62.2 - Standard

By Decoteau posted 06-23-2021
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Release date AU/EMEA/US: 2021/06/28    Jama Connect 8.62.2 - Standard This patch release resolves an issue where select items were not viewable due to a workflow-related data exception and customers were receiving an "Unknown error" message.  Resolved issues ID Resolution SOS-DEF-5365 Items are now viewable and do not display an "Unknown error" message.
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Jama Connect 8.62.2 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 06-23-2021
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Release date AU/EMEA/US: 2021/06/25    Jama Connect 8.62.2 - Cloud This patch release resolves an issue where select items were not viewable due to a workflow-related data exception and customers were receiving an "Unknown error" message.  Resolved issues ID Resolution SOS-DEF-5365 Items are now viewable and do not display an "Unknown error" message.
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Managing Locked Items in Jama Connect

By Erin posted 06-16-2021
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Managing Locked Items in Jama Connect There are two types of locks in Jama Connect: system locks  and user locks . This article will help you understand the difference between the two and best practices for managing them – and what to do if you’re unknowingly the owner of a user-locked item!  As a best practice, enabling the “locked” field as a visible field in the list view will allow you to quickly identify items that are locked and give you a nice visual indicator as to why they might be locked. Blue lock icons indicate that the item(s) are locked by the system because of a workflow transition, yellow lock icons indicate that the item(s) are locked by ...
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Jama Connect Dashboards: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts?

By Erin posted 06-16-2021
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Jama Connect Dashboards: Is the Whole Greater than the Sum of its Parts? Best Practices and Considerations for Building Powerful, Meaningful, and Living Digital Displays In many workplace operational settings, large screens hold multiple digital displays simultaneously.  Think, for example, of a nurse’s station in an Intensive Care Unit. At any given time, staff can glance at a digital display that shows patient blood pressure, heart rate, O2 levels, and more.  When creating displays for operational settings, development teams , and human factors specialists need to consider the amount and types of information to display – they should show enough ...
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How to Save Time and Get the Most out of Jama Support

By Chuck posted 06-15-2021
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How to Save Time and Get the Most out of Jama Support It can be a little overwhelming when you first get started with Jama Connect, and you might have a lot of questions. Or you might even run into a problem that you didn't expect! This handy guide will help you navigate the world of Jama Support efficiently and easily so that you can get in touch with the right support professional or resource. 1: Check the User Guide and The Community to see if your question has already been answered. 2: Post your question or problem to our Community Support space ! This space allows you to collaboratively brainstorm with other Jama users, as well as Support ...
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Importing Relationships using the Import Relationships Plugin

By Erin posted 06-14-2021
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Importing Relationships Using the Jama Connect Import Relationships Plugin Who: Organization Administrator What: Batch import relationships via the Import Relationship Plugin When: After importing two or more item types with known relationships, usually at the beginning of a Jama implementation Where: In Jama Connect Why: The Relationship Plugin allows Organization Admins to batch create relationships between existing items in the application by importing a CSV of known relationships How: Read on! When transitioning to a requirements management tool like Jama Connect, teams who have existing requirements and traceability ...
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Supported Software for Jama Connect Standard 8.62

By Decoteau posted 06-02-2021
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Browsers: Note that browser zoom is supported only at 100%. Use of browser extensions/add-ons or the enablement of Compatibility View is not supported while using Jama Connect. To prevent session issues, the application should be used in a single browser window.    Internet Explorer 11*  Edge Chromium Firefox** Google Chrome** Safari** *Note that IE is not supported with the Admin Console in on-premises installations of Jama 8.x using versions of Replicated < 2.4.0. *Also note that support for IE11 will be dropped with the Fall 2021 release (the next Standard release) **We will support versions released over the past 12 months. ...
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Jama Connect 8.62 - Cloud

By Decoteau posted 06-02-2021
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Release date US: 2021/06/04 Release date AU/EU: 2021/06/05   SAML and multi-mode authentication: New option that controls user provisioning You can now control the auto-provisioning of new SAML users in both single SAML and multi-mode. If your users are set up as a user in SAML but not yet added to your user table, this option allows you to control whether users can auto-provision in Jama Connect. New option,  Disable the auto-generation of new SAML users , was added to the root admin authentication properties.  When this checkbox is selected and properties are saved, your SAML users (SAML and multi-mode) can't sign in to Jama Connect until ...
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Jama Connect 8.62 Standard

By Decoteau posted 06-01-2021
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Release date US: 2021/06/04 Release date AU/EU: 2021/06/04 Coming soon  —  Internet Explorer support ending Fall 2021 Microsoft is ending support for Internet Explorer and Edge. Microsoft Edge Chromium will be the supported browser going forward. We recommend that you access Jama Connect from these browsers: Chrome Firefox Safari Edge Chromium If you have questions or comments, submit a ticket at  support.jamasoftware.com .    Review center and workflow enhancements   Optional Versioning  This release introduces an option that controls the items you version during a workflow transition. Previously, all transitions created a new ...
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Attention System Admins: Requirements for Jama Connect 8.62 self-hosted release

By Chloe posted 05-25-2021
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Before you can install or upgrade to the Jama Connect 8.62 release, we recommend that you first create two new database schemas to support the new SAML and OAuth authentication options. For the upgrade to complete, organizations using Microsoft SQL Server must enter database users in Replicated. Without these entries, the installation or upgrade will fail. Organizations that do not create the new schema will successfully install/upgrade; however, the system will continue to attempt to connect to the databases and produce log failures. After you create the database schemas, you must restart Jama Connect. To create the database schemas, use the script for ...
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