Need ability to manage baselines with folders or groups

Haze Diedrich
edited November 2016 in
I still don’t seem to be able to create any folder structure for existing baselines or any defaults for where Review Baselines are automatically placed.

IS this something a Creator User should be able to do?

Comments

  • Kristina King
    edited June 2016
    Haze, that's a great question, and I'm not sure I've ever been asked that. But to answer it, no, this isn't something a Creator can do in Jama. There actually isn't a functionality to arrange or nest Baseline folders for any user (admin or otherwise).
  • Haze Diedrich
    edited October 2016
    Thanks Kristina, My end user want to know if there is any plan to address this type of feature?
  • Kristina King
    edited June 2016
    Haze, I just checked with my Product team and this type of feature is not on the current roadmap. However, we do plan on looking into baseline improvements in the future.
  • Chris Jenkins
    edited April 2015
    I would be very keen for baseline management features to be included. Currently I have the baselines I created plus the additional baselines created automatically from requirement reviews.

    It would be nice to be able to sort these into groups as well as archive baselines.
  • Kristina King
    edited June 2016
    I understand what you mean, Chris—as it is now, the Baseline view can get unruly. I'm going to change this post from a Question to an Idea so that we can properly prioritize it.
  • Pankaj Trivedi
    edited November 2016
    This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Jama: Baseline folder arrangement.

    Currently when creating baseline using filter, Jama creates Folder and places baseline inside that folder. The folder name is based on Filter name. User has control over baseline name and description. What we want need is: In a sprint, there will be many baseline for different sets of requirements i.e. different sets of filter. So We want to create a folder and put all filter baselines inside it. Doing this way would allow us to organize baselines in better way. Is there a way to do this? via Admin configuration?
  • Ian Webb
    edited October 2016
    The ability to manage the Baselines "directory structure" is something that I'd also very much like to see. As I understand it, every time a new Review is created, a new Baseline is also automatically created. Thus, the list of Baselines gets very long very quickly. The real impact of this becomes apparent when trying to generate Reports that involve Baselines - 'Baseline Compared to Current' or 'Baseline Comparison' reports. Trying to find the Baseline(s) that I want to use for these reports is exactly that - trying!

    Pleeeeeease help,

    Ian
  • Kristina King
    edited June 2016
    Thanks for the clear example of why this is a pain, Ian. I know we're working on improving baselining, but I don't know if that extends to organization/categorization. I've linked this conversation to our internal tracking of that project, so this can be kept in mind.
  • Thomas Klink
    Thomas Klink Application Specialist / Technical Editor
    edited October 2016
    In general I like the baseline feature very much, but ... we often run into the same problem. If a review isn't tagged or named, we had lots of automatically generated "individual items" baselines in the list.
    And if you want to make a comparision of baselines which 2 do you want to pick from the long list?  
  • Kristina King
    edited October 2016
    Yeah, Thomas, it isn't easy. Point taken! Thanks for bringing that up.
  • Has there been any update on this feature?

    If my organization was able to create a folder structure that mirrored the main project structure (with the auto-generated folders being "drag"-able, the Baseline feature would get used all the time.  Unfortunately, we don't use it as we should/could due to the lack of organization leading to difficulties managing.

    We have roughly 50-80 sets within the project.

    Jama Version 8.10
    Google Chromium 54.0.2840.101

    Ian
    ViaSat, Inc.
  • Hi Ian,

    There has not been any change to managing baselines, nor have I seen anything on the roadmap.
  • Thank you for the response.  Please let user know if that changes.  It is the closest feature to Agile Revisions Jama has (or so I have found)
    Ian
    ViaSat, Inc.
  • René W.
    edited October 2018
    Original Message:
    Sent: 09-28-2018 04:15
    From: rene wilsing
    Subject: Baseline folders











    I was also surprised, after Jama was update to latest version,
    that we still cannot organize our more than 100 Basline-Folders.

    And the folders are mixed up, so we cannot find baselines again.

    Thanks in advance and best regards,
    Renefolders










  • Julie Goodner
    edited December 2019
    Hello everyone,

    My name is Julie Goodner, I'm one of the product managers here at Jama. I wanted to provide an update that baselines are starting to be addressed. Here is a list that has been completed so far;
    • Ability to restore a deleted baseline from the project activity stream
    • Added baseline IDs, these are links to baselines currently from the project activity stream
    • Added links to baselines and reviews in the single item view's version widget
    • Added an 'Undo' option in the delete baseline success message
    I know you need a lot more and we are working towards addressing a lot of the issues. In the upcoming cloud release permissions have been addressed based on the feedback we received.
  • Julie Goodner
    edited May 2020
    With the Spring 8.49 release users with administrator permissions can do the following;
    • Create folders in the baseline tree
    • Create folders in folders
    • Move a baseline source with its baselines into a folder or any place in the tree via drag and drop
    • Rename the baseline source