v3.4 Released – New Administration Suite

We are pleased to release Bugs Dashboard v3.4 with our new Administration Suite! All properties can now be edited in a web browser, defining portals is as simple as drag-and-drop, and portlets are defined once in a "Portlet Registry".

In addition to the introduction of an Administration Suite, v3.4 includes:

• Added ability to extend the Reports menu.
• Added ability to extend the "Manage Bugs" menu.
• Organized the /classes directory through the use of sub-directories.
• Updated the Side-by-side portlet to check for a null value before outputting headers.
• Corrected an issue with the query for the "By Resolution" report.
• Updated 3rd party software, e.g. jFreeChart, iText.
• Updated the Wizard to use the new Admin menu structure and use a new navigation interface. Updated several of the options which can be set using the Wizard.
• Added the ability to add Custom Menus to the menu bar.
• Reorganized and updated the "About" menu items.
• Added an "information" icon which when hovered over will display the description provided for each portlet, with a few exceptions, such as HelloWorld or External Links.
• Corrected the SQL for Priorities and Severities of the Tag Cloud portlet to not include bugs which have been closed (i.e. RESOLVED).
• Corrected the Scrum Sprint portlet to show the column headers properly.

Administration Suite

The Administration Suite now allows you to edit all the properties of Bugs Dashboard from a web browser. Although you may still tweak them by hand if you so desire, there is no need to use a text editor on the server any longer.

Configuring Dashboards

The Administration Suite now allows you to specify how you wish to see a dashboard simply by dragging-and-dropping objects into columns. You define the layouts (formerly styles) for the dashboards and then construct your dashboard of portlets graphically.

Portlet Registry

Dashboards no longer contain a list of the portlets defined for that dashboard with each of their attributes. There is now one listing, a registry, of portlets with their attributes. The dashboard then contains a simple list of which portlet will appear in which column at startup as defined when you configure your dashboards (see above).

Localization

We are also pleased to facilitate the localization of Bugs Dashboard for our foreign customers. All strings are now presented in a web browser allowing you to easily convert each string. The file is then saved in the proper Locale.

Installation Wizard

The installation wizard has also been updated to match the look-and-feel of the Administration Suite as well as capture additional properties at the time of install.