BigPicture upgrade matrix

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Milstones are treated as a point in time (single date, no duration).
In the velocity report, the velocity value is presented on the Velocity chart in the form of a trend line.
Task status is displayed for tasks attached to objectives as associated work.
Values of the Custom Columns of the Overview module (Select data type) can be assigned colors.

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The “Respect Jira screen scheme” toggle switch available for Jira Cloud, Jira Server, and Jira Data Center. When the toggle switch is “on” - if a field can’t be updated in a Jira project, you can’t edit it in BigPicture column views and cards.
Inline editing can be used to add/ remove/ edit the value of a label field.
Task Viewer and Task Editor can group tasks.
Select data type is available for custom Box columns.
Duration of a task (duration working days) is respected by tasks in a manual mode.

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BigTemplate can be migrated using JCMA.
Editing the "Start Date" field causes move instead of resize (mappings to estimates).
Date filtering includes basic tasks.
The purple color of dependencies means that the target task is out-of-view (Board module).
The "Closed date" column is available in the Overview module.
Links marked as soft are available on the structure builders list.
The report is not displayed if the user does not have access to tasks.

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Data Residency - Introducing our new GDPR-compliant feature that enables users to enter their country of residence for enhanced data privacy protection.
Effort Mode - Effort Mode on Resources Panel can be changed from Gantt Gadget

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Resources module - display timeboxes and aggregate data by timeboxes
Create dependencies (Gantt module) - click on a 'dot' next to a task to create a dependency (works when dependencies are collapsed and expanded)
Snipe to task - added to the Board module backlog

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Task structure - When more than one link-based structure builder is active, you are prompted to select which link should be created (when you are making changes to the task tree).
Snipe feature added to the Scope module.
Grouping functionality is available on the Scope module
Live Sync is available in the Scope module
The "task detail view" is available in the side panel (Scope module) (Jira server and Jira data center only)
Outline level built-in field added.
Scope module - you can manually trigger resynchronization (requires Box Admin or Box Editor security role)

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exporting to Excel in the Resources module - file contains tasks with their workload.
Risks module - once triggered, export is happening in the background. You can switch to a different screen without disrupting the process.
Export on the Gantt module includes the Resources Panel

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When dependencies are collapsed, clicking the dependency counter "dot" triggers a pop-up containing a list of dependencies.
Out-of-view tasks are displayed in the infobar.
In the "dependency details" pop-up, the "task source" field can be edited.
Board module - when dependencies are collapsed (arrows are not visible), dependencies related to a task are shown as arrows.
Board module - colors indicate the "health status" of the task dependencies.
ASAP dependencies are highlighted as "broken" when the start/end dates of tasks don't match the dependency specifications (dependency cannot be fulfilled).

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Inline editing of task duration (task duration field in a column/card view).
Grey out irrelevant dependencies - when you select a task, only dependencies related to it ar highlighted. Other task dependencies are greyed out
Inline editing of the assignee field
Contextural access to scope definition in a form of a pop-up (Add tasks button > Manage scope definition)
Allocation insights in the Resources panel (Gantt module) - click on an item to see a pop-up containing details.

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Includes BigPicture 8.6 features released for the cloud version. Unavailable for BigPicture server.

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