2020

Features:

• Row and Bar Charts have a new option to hide further values.
• Linear trend lines can be added to any Time Series Chart
• Added support for the following Jira Service Desk fields: Customer Request Type Field, SLA Fields
• Added new Map Widget (supports Geo Points)
• Added WYSIWYG text editor to the Spacer Widget
• Widgets can now be resized at every edge and side

Features:

• Exply now also imports the Issue Age in days

Improvements:

• Process Management with UUID-Files: (hopefully) makes the management of the Exply process way more stable
  BUGFIX/FEATURE: Metric Tile Comparisons now behave more like the user would expect
• The logging of the Jira Importer has been greatly improved
• Fixed a small usability issue that prevented users from starting the Jira Importer again after it failed.
• Fixed an issue that caused the data index to be deleted when only a few projects were imported via Jira Importer Widget (Please note that this feature is still considered to be alpha)

Highlight:

• To greatly reduce the import time you can now start on-demand partial imports via the Importer Status Widget. By default Exply imports new data at night (or whatever schedule has been selected). Depending on the amount of data (projects, issues, logged hours, etc.) this can take a while. If users have made last-minute-changes to their data, this is only displayed after a new import in Exply.
  • How it works:
    • Add the Importer Status Widget to your desired Dashboard
    • Select which of your projects you want to import (update their data) and within which period
    • Also select if you want to import project unrelated data, e.g. Sprints, Tempo workload, Tempo Team Commitment
    • Start your import :)
  • Known Issues:
    • This is an alpha feature which will need a lot of testing and some tweaks. Any feedback is highly welcome - support@exply.io :)
    • There is no progress bar yet
    • If another import is already running, you will not be able to start yours - you will need to try it again later.

Features:

• The Exply for Jira Importer Configuration Screen has been redesigned to be more user friendly.
• Bar & Row Charts now have a new option to also show a separate sum bar. Please note: This option does not yet work if stacking is used.
• Metric Tiles have got new (beta) options to show comparisons with the previous period/previous year.

Improvements:

• Fixed a bug that caused the Exply importer to not work correctly if database had a different collation
• Greatly improved the behaviour of the autocompletion in filters, value/date/category fields
• Fixed a bug that caused the Exply importer to crash if it could not import a certain custom field

Improvements:

• Added a new option for relative time selection to the Time Selector Widget. You can now set an individual number of days to view your data, e.g. last 30 days.
• Fixed a bug that caused logged hours to have no Tempo accounts if only the project issues have been linked to the Tempo account.
• Fixed a bug that has set the default importer schedule to "monthly" instead of "daily".
• Fixed a visual bug that caused the new bar that shows applied widget group filters in display mode to not be at the right place in PDF exports and Jira gadgets.
• Improved the UI stack trace to be more helpful.

Features:

• Pivot Table entries are now selectable and work also as temporary filters as other widgets do
• If you have set filters for widget groups they are now also displayed in the dashboard view mode, so that you see at a glance which filters are active.
• Calculation Part 1.5: You can now also multiply and divide two value fields. Please note that there is one small restriction right now: This is only possible when both value fields never contain an empty field. This will be covered in Calculation Part 2.
• Time Series Charts now feature individual date fields per chat group.

Improvements:

• Restyled the Pivot Table to be more appealing
• Fixed a bug that stopped the importer from working when Tempo Teams where inherited
• Fixed a bug that caused Exply in very rare cases to not being fully removed during an update and therefore prevented the new Exply version from working correctly.

Features:

• Exply now provides AVERAGE, MIN & MAX as new analysis modes! They are available in the following widgets: Bar Chat, Row, Chart, Scatter Plot, Matrix Chart, Time Series Charts, Pivot Table, Metric Tile. To add them, simply click "Add calculation" beneath the selected Value Field. The Average works per day, month, year and any other category field you have.
• New option to ignore the time selection in a widget. Sometimes data has no time reference, e.g. statistical data, static data, etc. To view or compare them with time-based data you simply select "Ignore Time Selection" as Date Field.

Improvements:

• Redesigned the Display Options section to be clearer, user-friendlier, and more appealing
• Fixed an issue that caused new widgets to show "No Data" after adding them via the Widget Explorer

Features:

• Custom import scheduling for Exply for JIRA. Per default, the data import happens in the middle of the night, so that everything is updated in the morning. In some cases, this update rhythm is too slow. We, therefore, implemented the custom import schedule. There are a couple of presets to choose from or you can set it to your specific needs via crontab.
• Bar & Row Chart widgets have a new powerful feature to only show secondary values where the primary value has data. For example, you want to compare the Tempo Workload Hours of certain team members with the sum of estimates of the issues they are assigned to. The 1st Value Field would be Workload Hours of Team Members of a certain team and the 2nd Value Field would be Original Estimate - with the new option only the filtered team members will be populated with the estimated hours as a second value.

Improvements:

• Greatly improved the support for visualization of negative values.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Exply UI to throw an error when changing widget types from or to Pivot Tables.
• Exply for Jira now also allows developer licenses.
• Fixed an issue that caused the Tempo Team Role Rate to not being correctly assigned when a Tempo Team is set in an issue.

Improvements:

• In rare cases imported data–items (such as hours) appeared multiple times after a data import. Later everything went back to normal. Now we re-index internal data structures after a successful import immediately. Multiple and removed data–items no longer appear in Exply dashboards.
• The Widget Explorer tolerates invalid selections. If individual widgets fail to render they do not affect the other widgets.

Highlight:

• Calculation (Phase 1):
  • Exply finally allows you to extend your data with calculations! We have used the last couple of months to restructure and prepare Exply for this big new feature and still have a lot to do. Therefore, the complete calculation feature will be released step by step. In phase 1, you will be able to:
    • Calculate Value Fields with constants in all four basic arithmetic operations, e.g. calculate the turnover by multiplying the billable hours by the hourly rate of the project.
    • Add or subtract two Value Fields, e.g. subtract the billable hours from the total logged hours to get the amount of non-billable hours in your issues/projects.

Further Features:

• Add reference lines to the Time Series Charts and Row/Bar Charts to easily visualize thresholds, min & max. values, etc.
• It is now possible to directly download all necessary logs without the need of navigating to the internal logs folder. This will make it a lot easier for the Exply support to provide direct help.

Features:

• New filter options: You can now add filters for dates and values. This enables you to filter e.g. issues that are not estimated, issues that have logged hours above a certain amount, and way more.
• Exply now imports Tempo Programs for Teams
• You can now set individual units for every value and widget. This comes in handy when comparing e.g. logged hours with the logged/estimated ratio in percent.
• Exply now also automatically detects Jira Sprints in the new Sprint Burndown Chart widget.

Improvements:

• Added an option for Exply groups to also contain spaces like Jira group names
• Team commitments are now also linked to Jira Projects and Jira Boards
• Sub-Issues are now also available as Issue Type
• Long Dashboard titles now use the complete available space within the header
• Fixed an issue that prevented users from editing widget titles of widgets with errors
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Features:

• Added the widget filter to the Raw Data Table to be more useful. You can now decide which kind of data (e.g. issues, time records, etc.) you want to see in a list.

Improvements:

• Fixed an issue that caused the importer to stop working if an invalid link was detected in the database.
• Fixed an issue that caused the whole Dashboard to show no data, if a single widget was faulty. Now only the relevant widget shows an error message.
• Fixed an issue that caused the data mapping on existing category fields in some importers to fail.
• The labels for the value "Number of entries" are now more descriptive.
• Fixed an issue that caused Jira usernames to be not shown correctly in very rare instances.
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Improvements:

• The Burn Down Chart now features two modes. Per default, the Burn Down Chart treats different allocations (periods) in the Quota independent (Scrum Sprint mode). You can also let the Burn Down Chart sum them all up so that the allocations are handled like a project budget.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Exply process to stop when deactivated/uninstalled/updated on Windows-based servers.
• Fixed an issue that caused Epics to be only imported as Epics, and not as issues as well.
• Added more specific improvements for Windows server environments
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Features:

• In Exply for Jira it is now possible to define the import period in days. This way it is no longer necessary to import all JIRA (& Tempo) data, and there is a potentially enormous improvement in import speed. This is especially useful, if data doesn't change after a couple of days and you just want to update/import the last 14 days. Leaving the appropriate form blank, will import everything. You can also do a two-step setup. First of all, you import all data and after this is done you set the import period to a smaller amount. All data will be kept and only the data within the period will be updated.
• Exply for Jira now also imports Tempo workloads & team commitment. This way you can finally compare planned workloads with actually logged hours.

Improvements:

• Fixed an issue that caused the Excel export to fail on Windows servers
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Improvements:

• Improved the logging for Exply Core (used in JIRA)
• Improve performance of generic SQL importer preview
• Fixed an issue that caused the Excel export to fail when the temporary directory of the server is not writeable by Exply
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Features:

• Tempo Revenues are now calculated in Exply. They are based on billable hours and the corresponding price table. Within Exply you have the new value field "Amount of Worklog Expense" to analyse and visualise your revenues. There is also the new category field "Tempo Worklog Team Role".

Improvements:

• Fixed an issue that caused the end date form in the date picker to show the start and not the end date in the calendar.
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Improvements: 

• Added support for ActiveCollab 6
• Fixed an issue with the Elasticsearch fields limit.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the user to configure multiple values in the pivot table widget
• Fixed an issue that prevented Exply from importing original estimates when it was changed back to 0 hours again
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.

Improvements:

• Added a new calculated value field: Booked/Estimated Ratio
  • This value field calculates the ratio between booked hours and the original estimate per issue, e.g. if an issue is estimated with 10 hours and it has been 7h logged to it, the ratio will be 0.7
  • Please note that summing up ratios will not bring up useful results. This value field works best if used in the Metrics Tile Widget with the average-operation, or any other Widget when the data is categorised on issue-level, e.g. with "Issue" and "Issue Key".
• Added way better error handling
• Added an error screen with the option to send a bug report to our support
• Filters are now represented in Pivot Table Widget column names
• Improved the x-axis tick marks in Time Series Widgets
• When editing an existing Widget the corresponding period is now used in the Widget Configurator as well.
• Fixed an issue that caused a small display-bug when the Search-Widget was used with a Widget title
• Fixed an issue with importing Tempo Teams in Exply On-Premise
• Fixed an issue with the scrolling position
• Fixed an issue that caused Exply to crash when users added Widgets via the Widget Explorer and then decided to switch to the Advanced Configuration
• Fixed an issue that prevented closing the Quota Tile Widget details on small screens
• Fixed an issue that prevented some tooltips to be displayed correctly
• Updated the internally used Elasticsearch to 7.4.2
• Various additional minor fixes and improvements.