Support for Atlassian Server Products (and apps like BigPicture) is ending in February 2024.
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BigPicture 8.15.0 Release Notes
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| Migration (JCMA) | BigTemplate can be migrated using JCMA. | |
| Scheduling | When the “Start date” field is synchronized with “Start date” and the “End date” field is synchronized with “End date”:
When the “Start date” field is synchronized with “Original Estimate” and the “End date” field is synchronized either to “Original Estimate” or “Time Spent + Remaining Estimate”:
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| Board module | The purple color of dependencies means that the target task is out-of-view. |
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| Task period alignment | The "Task period alignment" section is redesigned. The "Precise alignment" option is available only for sequential boxes with sub-scope. |
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| Skills | The flow of deleting a skill is redesigned. You can remove skills along with their connections to resources or tasks. When you click the "Delete" button, you are informed if a skill is assigned to any resources or tasks. Once you confirm the removal, a skill that was related to any resources or tasks is deleted from those resources and tasks. |
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| Filtering | Basic tasks are included when using the date filter and in the export with date range. |
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| Search box | There is a switcher for JQL/TEXT search. The colors of icons are adjusted:
The icon changes its color to red if the JQL query typed is incorrect.
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| Dependencies (soft links) | Links marked as soft (go to dependency configuration to check the link mapping) can be used as structure builders. |
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| Overview module | The "Closed date" column provides a possibility to compare the end date to the date of actual closing (changing the status to "Closed"). The column is not inline-editable and has the same aggregations as other types of the Date type i.e. None, Minimum, Maximum. |
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| Usability | Change the width of the "Group" column when grouping tasks. |
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You can see the Gantt timeline with months and week numbers simultaneously. New zoom steps on the Gantt timeline:
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An empty tab "Gantt" is removed from App Configuration > Modules. |
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| Initiate a new dependency by dropping a dependency on the taskbar or on a dependency dot of a target task. A dot and half of a taskbar pulsate indicating that a dependency can be created. | ||
When upgrading Jira to version 9, you will see a screen informing you that the data migration was successful and now you should update BigPicture to a version compatible with Jira 9. |
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| Interface (color themes) | The color themes are no longer available.
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| Reports module | You cannot see a report if it includes tasks you do not have access to. | |
| Public API | Two endpoints are added to public API:
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