Support wildcard JIRA project in request-agile mapping

When mapping PPM request types to JIRA entity types, you can now specify a wildcard JIRA project to match all the JIRA projects. This frees you from creating the same request-agile mapping for each JIRA project.

For details, see Map PPM request types to Jira issue types.

PPM now supports the following authentications for the integration between PPM tasks and ALM releases:

• API key authentication for ALM 12.60 and later versions.
• SSO authentication for ALM 15.5.1 and later versions.

For details, see Use the integration of PPM tasks with ALM releases.

PPM administrators can now control that only the sheets from the specified workspace or folder can be mapped with PPM tasks.

For details, see Add a Smartsheet instance.

Support task effort field mapping in PPM-Smartsheet integration

You can now map Smartsheet task effort fields to PPM task effort fields when linking a PPM task to a Smartsheet sheet.

For details, see Link a PPM task to a Smartsheet sheet.

You can now use web reports to generate reports of any format and customize report file name.

For details, see JSP report, Excel report and web report.

When running a report, you can now attach the completed report in the email notification.

For details, see Submit reports.

You can now share a private dashboard page with other PPM users.

For details, see Share a private dashboard page.

The following enhancements were added to self-service portlets:

• In the gauge chart view, you can now manually enter a target value, in addition to selecting from a list of values.
• In the grid view, you can now create and apply conditional formatting to highlight, emphasize, or differentiate data displayed in the grid.

For details, see Set up display options for a self-service portlet.

Java portlets by default display data of current logged in user

You can now set the current logged in user as the default preference value for some Java portlets. When you add such a Java portlet to a shared dashboard page, the portlet by default shows the data of the current logged in user.

Such Java portlets include Analyze Assignment Load portlet, Project List portlet, and Project Gantt portlet.

For details, see Edit portlet preferences.

Control the earliest month staffing profile end period can be changed to

You can now use the STAFFING_PROFILE_END_PERIOD_NO_EARLIER_THAN_MONTH parameter to control the earliest month that the staffing profile end period can be changed to.

For details, see Server parameters.

Control whether Resource Allocation Management page displays positions from completed staffing profiles

You can now control whether the Resource Allocation Management page displays positions from completed staffing profiles.

For details, see Parameters and feature toggle controlling Resource Allocation Management page.

From the View Resource Pool page, you can now view the status of its child and parent resource pools.

For details, see Roll up resource pool information.

Sort related resource pools primarily by relationship

Related resource pools are sorted primarily by relationship (parent on top), then by status (enabled first), and finally by name.

For details, see Roll up resource pool information.

PPM can now calculate resource forecast demand in the FTE unit based on the staffing profile's regional calendar.

Note: This is a Beta feature.

For details, see Use staffing profile regional calendar to calculate demand in the FTE unit .

Search resources by Company

You can now search for resources that work for a specific company.

For details, see Set up resources.

Reset password from Change Password page

You can now use the Forgot password link in the Change Password page to reset your password.

For details, see Reset your password .

You can now specify the logging level for a specific product function from web UI.

Note: This is a Beta feature.

For details, see Specify product function logging level from Logger Manager.