28th November 2017
JSU 2.1.0 brings huge improvements and refinements in many areas. Quite several of those had inspired by our customers. Because we like happy JSU users, the beecom team continues to make JSU even more powerful.
Change your scope: Connect your workflows not only of linked issues, but also of sub-tasks & issues in epic
Many JSU users love the new post functions Create Linked Issues & Linked Transition, which we introduced with JSU 2.0.0 .
Additionally to linked issues, you now can also create sub-task or issues in epics. Further Trigger a transition on any other issue, which is connected not only with an issue link, but also in a parent / sub-task, as well as epic / issue in epic relation.
Overcome permission obstacles: Connect your workflows of rather restricted projects
With Create Linked Issues & Linked Transition we did help you to bring teams of different JIRA projects closer together. However, the user still needed the appropriate permission in the project of the other team.
In JSU 2.1.0 you can configure a different user, who will create the new issue or trigger a transition on an existing one. Usually this will be a technical user with a lot of permissions, but no person logs into JIRA with it.
For example your support team has otherwise no permission in the developer's project. Now you can create a linked issue by using a technical user with the necessary permissions. And back the from the developers to the support, trigger a transition on the support issue with the technical user, whenever the developers task is done.
Also useful for complex business workflows with tight permissions. For example a customer of us, an international bank, has very restricted permissions for different projects due to legal constraints. In the past only a top manager was allowed to pass information from one project to the other, which he had to do all manually.
They are looking forward to JSU 2.1.0 which allows them for a fully integrated workflow solution over several projects, of which most employees cannot even see the other projects, which handle the process before or afterwards.
Many refinements on Copy Value From Other Field
We went even further and introduced the new concept of different scopes to the Copy Value From Other Field post function.
Both is possible: Copy a value from a connected issue (linked, sub/parent task, epic/issue in epic) to the issue in transition (triggering the post function). But also copy from the issue in transition to a connected issue.
For example you could copy the Due Date from an Epic to a Story, whenever you Start Progress on the Story.
You can now copy any number of fields during 1 post functions. Compared to the previous JSU, where you had to configure 1 post function for each field, your complex workflow configurations get much cleaner now.
Additional options to append or prepend the copied value to any existing value.
Imagine a parent task which is 'collecting' the values of its sub-tasks in one field of the parent task, whenever those sub-tasks get closed.
Put your validation error message in your context
Ok, we have to admit the standard validation error message, which JSU provided sometimes left the users rather puzzled.
What should they make out of a message like: "The field Contact its contents must match against the regular expression ^[_A-Za-z0-9-\\+]+(\\.[_A-Za-z0-9-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9-]+(\\.[A-Za-z0-9]+)*(\\.[A-Za-z]{2,})$" ?
When actually what it means is: "Please provide a valid email address for Contact".
Now you can provide any massage, which makes sense for your users.
... and more
Small bug fixes, usability improvements, further details in the documentation.