BigPicture JiraCloud Release Notes 8.1 (2021-06-10)

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Box period can be automatically adjusted based on scope (applies to boxes in "auto scope-based" period mode). Settings must be changed by an administrator. 

A Box type with this period mode adjusts its time period to encompass all tasks within its scope. You don't have to manually change the Box period to make sure it reflects the task duration. With those settings, you can be sure there is no discrepancy between the box period and its contents.

• compact
• regular
• wide

Box creation

When you create a consecutive "Sub scope" Box the App provides a name suggestion. 

The last number in the string (the name of the previous Box) is incremented by 1, even if it isn't the last character in a string.

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Task Warnings

If inconsistencies are detected, task warnings will help you assess the situation and decide if and how you want to address them. Task warnings indicate that:

• The task period doesn't match the Box period
• Assignee doesn't match the team

Swimlanes

You can switch between four configurable swimlane types (beta feature):

• Team
• Priority
• Color
• Status

Selectable swimlane value - for a particular swimlane value (such as Team) you can completely hide particular swimlanes (not just collapse them). Only swimlane values that have a checkmark next to them are displayed. 

Task multi-select

Capacity planning

Both Box Admin and Editor have access to the capacity planning feature of the Board module.

As always, Jira admin and App Admin have full access to all the Boxes, therefore don't need to be added as a Box Admin to access this functionality.

Other roles, such as Viewers won't see the relevant icon.

Objectives

Associated work

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You can set the beginning of a grid to be a particular date.

Use the calendar button - once you click on a date, the Resource grid will adjust. The selected date will be positioned at the beginning of the grid. 

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Core new features: 

1. Basic tasks can be created using the Calendar module
2. Filtering tasks via Quick Filters or date range
3. Creating new tasks (via header button and inline cell trigger)
4. Editing and deleting tasks (via mouse right-click menu or keyboard shortcuts)
5. Showing task details in the inline dialog
6. Multimarker handling, 
7. Calendar export to PDF via BigTemplate,
8. Calendar Deadline Mode,
9. Calendar scroll support ( changing current month with scrolling )
10. Calendar Week Start Day can be modified
11. Re-scheduling tasks via drag-and-drop 
12. "Upcoming tasks" as the Jira gadget

Additional small features:

1. Jira dot shortcut is supported
2. Clicking outside modal with all-day tasks now closing this modal
3. Unselecting task via ESCAPE and clicking outside task
4. Responsive, smart calendar cells (fits as many cards as possible)
5. Showing long-period tasks as multiple-day events (spans across day cells)

sub-scope synchronization with a field

You are allowed to reuse an already used field value in the sub-scope definition of another Box. There is a warning message displayed once the app recognized that the saved field values in already used in at least one other sub-scope definition. 

If the app recognizes that a task was planned (by running partial sync or through the app UI) to more than one Box with Own scope which has a "clashing" configuration within their Sub-scopes' definitions:

• sub-scope field sync is stopped for this task ( existing values of sub-scope sync fields are not cleared) 
• a task cannot be replanned for another Box until the configuration is fixed (a task will be removed from the scope or a sub-scope mapping will be modified) and there is a respective warning displayed in the Board module for this task. 

Period mode

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Resource manager

You can manually archive resources.

The app will also automatically archive individual resources based on their inactive status in Jira (server, cloud).  Archiving resources makes it easier for you to know what is the status of a resource.

Archived resources will be marked as such in the Resources, Teams, Board, and Gantt modules.

Resource details page

There are 4 cards (2 cards in a row) presenting the information about Absences, Skills, Holiday Plans, and Workload Plans. You can easily create, edit and remove card items.

Field mapping

Start and End date can be mapped and uni-directionally synchronized with an additional Jira field.

When "end date" is mapped to a time tracking field, you can additionally add one-way sync with an additional data field that will display the end date.