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# Usability enhancements

The following usability improvements are available:

- When sending an email, you can now set it as high importance. For details, see Collaborate in ALM Octane.
- Requirements. You can now view the backlog coverage of a requirement using the Backlog implementation field in the requirements grid or form. For details, see Associate requirements with other items.
- Autofill templates. You can now set an autofill template as the default template during the template's creation. For details, see Customize forms.
- Timeline view. Use a time scale slider to shift the timeline between time scales of days, weeks or months. You can change the time scale also by using the Ctrl + mouse wheel combination. For details, see View the feature timeline.

- Consolidated SCM data. Details on pull requests, commits, and branches are now consolidated into a unified Development tab.
- Filters in the Pipeline module were combined, so you can now use one unified filter to select releases, milestones, or specific pipelines. For details, see Customize your pipeline display.
- The Builds tab is now available in grid view, enabling you to filter, group, sort, and search CI builds. For details on how to pinpoint the source of build failures, see Analyze builds.
- You can now filter date fields using a predefined Last 14 days option. For example, see Configure widget data settings.
- When test runner parameters are used for an automated or pipeline run, a tooltip shows the parameter values that were used by the job. For details, see Use parameter sets in the test runner job.
- Users with View permissions can now view jobs configurations in the Pipeline topology view. For details, see Explore a pipeline's graphical representation.

Grid view improvements:

- You can quickly access the history of an item in a grid, using the right-click menu command Show <value> in History. For example, if you want to see who changed an item's phase, right-click the phase and select Show Phase in History. The History tab opens to the relevant details.
- You can now right-click an item in a grid and select View Details in a New Tab. This replaces the View Details command.

For other tips on using the grid view, see Refine your display.

Centralized configuration settings:

In space settings there is a new tab called Defaults, providing a central location to configure pipeline purging, email templates, and document report templates. For details on these options, see the following:

- Set up a run purge policy
- Customize email header and footer
- Document reports

## Global search

The following global search enhancements are now available:

Enhancement | Description
--- | ---
Keyboard shortcuts | You can now launch your global search with the following keyboard shortcuts: Windows: Ctrl+Alt+E macOS: Cmd+Alt+E
Partial ID search | You can now search items using partial IDs. Your search input should contain at least four digits for the search results to be displayed.
Search results navigation | From the global search results, you can now open an item, and then page through other items of the same type using the back and forth arrows.
Suggestions | Your previous searches now appear as suggestions. The suggestions are unique for a user and a workspace.

For details on global search, see Perform a global search.

## Attachments

The following enhancements for item attachments are now available:

Enhancement | Description
--- | ---
Embedded preview | You can now preview the attached pdf, txt, log, or html files. The previews are now paginated, so you can navigate the attached files using the page numbers. The preview file types are defined in the configuration parameters. For details, see Configuration parameters.
View modes | With the new Grid view, you can now view attachments as lists. You can also sort attachments and reorder columns. For details, see View and download attachments.

## Comments

The following enhancements for item comments are now available:

Enhancement | Description
--- | ---
Pinned pane | The comments pane is now pinned by default.
"@" mentions | When typing "@" to mention people, the list of suggestions appears immediately. Your stakeholders and recently mentioned people appear first in the list.

For details on comments, see Comment on items.

## Dashboard

The following dashboard enhancements are now available:

Enhancement | Description
--- | ---
Widgets drill down | Using summary widgets in tabular display, you can now drill down to the referenced items. For details, see ALM Octane dashboard.

## Other

Some other enhancements are also available:

Enhancement | Description
--- | ---
Manual Runner views | You can now switch between the Vertical view and Side-by-side view of the Manual Runner. For details, see Run tests.
Self-assigning items | When assigning items to people, you now appear first in the list of suggested assignees.
Defects Tests tab | The Tests tab is now available in feature defects. For details, see Run tests.
Tag suggestions | When adding a tag, you can now see your previous tags as suggestions. For details, see Tags.
Test runs links in test suit run reports | You can now view test runs by following links in the test suite run reports. For details, see Run a test suite.
Sorting and filtering favorites | You can now sort and filter favorites according to selected properties. For details, see Refine your display.
Sort application modules | You can now sort the application modules tree according to selected properties. For details, see Quality management.
Filter shortcuts | In the right-pane filter, you can now select a value and automatically deselect all the active values using the following shortcuts: Windows: Ctrl + left-click on the value that you want to select macOS: Cmd + left-click on the value that you want to select For details, see Refine your display.

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