This file
describes the new features and functionality available in the current release
of Micro Focus Dimensions RM.
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Dimensions RM 12.5
addresses various enhancement requests and issues that were submitted by
customers:
· Product/Project Feature – Requirements Branching:
o Definition of products, projects and their relationships.
o Requirements from products/projects can be branched and merged, using functionality supported by new views.
o Scope of products/project is easily applied across the browser.
o Matrix view of the assignments between Products and Projects.
· Document Enhancements:
o Full Document Scrolling: It is possible to scroll within an entire RM document as with MS Word.
o Inline editing of chapters and requirements in document view.
o Enhanced Chapter class: Edit form allows working with all Chapter attributes, with change history visualized. Change proposals for document chapters can be created.
o Added ability to convert one or several Chapters into Requirements.
o Document Find and Replace highlights baselined requirement text in gray.
· Enhanced Review Support:
o New document comments view.
o Reviewers may process comments on chapters and requirements.
o Progress can be visualized with summary view based on new comment workflow.
· Glossary:
o Ability to dynamically create, use and highlight Glossary terms.
o Manage multiple Glossaries based on categories.
o Enable auto-calculated Glossary chapters in documents.
· Diagram Editor:
o Added ability to draw, save and edit diagrams in RM Browser with various selectable shape libraries like Visio, UML, SysML, etc.
o Support of Visio diagram import.
o Diagram editor is available in all html text attributes.
· Reports:
o New Traceability Matrix marking requirement relationships with editable links.
o “My Work” reports have been integrated into the dashboard (former view deprecated).
o Report visibility in subcategories with results filtered by selected category.
· Quick Search Improvements:
o New collapsible Quick Search design.
o Users can save private filters in Quick Search for faster access to data.
o "PUID, Title & Description only" is split into three single options in Quick Search and Split View.
· Extended Word round trip functionality:
o Document roundtrip supports offline changes to requirements and chapters in MS Word.
· Further Usability Enhancements:
o Test Management Automation - automated the process of creating a new test plan (number of test runs) based on a set of test cases.
o Simplified the process for deletion of baselined objects - without extra steps.
o Opening of full RM Interface is supported from an opened document or other container.
o Close after Save is available on Edit Requirement form and Transition Dialog.
o Ability to transition one or multiple requirements from one class to another.
o Provided ability to temporarily hide content in a category with simple process to make it visible again.
o Agile: Allow assigning one or more groups to agile artifacts.
o Ability to restrict the group attribute to a single group/subgroup selection.
o When using Save&Copy or Save&New feedback notifies the user that an item was created.
· Integrations:
o New native bi-directional integration with Atlassian JIRA (based on RM SyncEngine).
o New Micro Focus Hub connector to enable integrations to Micro Focus solutions like Silk, Atlas, Rhythm as well as to 3rd party solutions like TFS, Rally, etc.
o Enhanced synchronization with HP ALM/QC to support multi-selection fields and date fields in various formats.
o Export to ReqIF (Requirements Interchange Format) to exchange data with other requirements tools.
· Administration:
o List values maintenance of attributes in RM Browser including support for individual value sets per category.
o
Assignment of single users to a category
without enabling an entire group.
o
Added additional warnings in Deployment
Comparison Dialog.
Defects from customers:
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DEF146578 |
Umlaut in RM Class Definition / RM Web
client |
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DEF267114 |
Expiration screens are not using SSO
Login |
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DEF274297 |
Sensitivity to whitespace in the script
parser can lock up RMAppServers. |
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DEF287672 |
Document Compare can display incorrect
results |
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DEF289863 |
Category restrictions are not completely
honored with respect to containers |
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DEF290052 |
File attachments with long name or High
ASCII characters in name failed to attach and crash rmAppServer |
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DEF291503 |
Save and Copy error in 12.4.1: Mandatory
field not filled but marked with a green tick |
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DEF291544 |
Permission issues when transition
multiple objects |
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DEF292233 |
Adding a New Group to a Project grants
edit privilege on all reports |
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DEF292533 |
Class sorting |
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DEF292578 |
Document Compare Returns Incorrect
results with NO update to TIP |
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DEF293381 |
Table border defaults in TinyMCE editor |
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DEF296310 |
Display Issues when screen resolution is
above 1920 |
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DEF297018 |
After Deploy, cannot set Attributes to
Display in User Settings if Attribute defaults are deleted |
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DEF298208 |
RM Import: Title is not removed from
Description / Too much text in parent requirement |
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DEF300090 |
Embedded or attached objects are not
migrated |
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DEF300457 |
Error shown when using quick search with
Group Attribute and Text filter. |
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DEF292354 |
When doing a document find and replace,
the text found following a replace is NOT highlighted |
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DEF292606 |
FF: Images pasted into RM do not publish
properly - publish as snall red x |
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DEF296993 |
User Management fails when using CAC
environments |
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DEF298704 |
CSV Browser Import does not Respect
Returns |
Non-customer defects:
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DEF213398 |
Problems with Russian/German symbols in
RM Browser |
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DEF215923 |
Mistake in comparison of document. |
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DEF216933 |
All snapshots is missed after Word
Import |
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DEF216934 |
Document Forward is blank after Word
Import |
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DEF216942 |
Chapter title and its description have a
page break between them after Word Impo |
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DEF217090 |
Inserted rows caused all subsequent rows
in the table to be created as 'new' |
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DEF222277 |
Compare Docs shows incorrect number of
added reqs |
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DEF224887 |
Incorrect comparing differences. |
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DEF232618 |
Group attribute values cannot be
updated/replaced by webservices |
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DEF254926 |
List values with russian
symbols are truncated in ClassDef |
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DEF278254 |
Switch to Outline View for Traceabiltiy Reports with runtime parameters not possible |
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DEF290670 |
Impossible to create collection based on
query where Category is run-time parameter |
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DEF291160 |
Web services licenses should be requested by client host
id |
End Release Notes