Issue with corner field and hierarchy plugin

Hi,

We are in the final stages of GreenHopper evaluation and need help to resolve a couple issues we are seeing at this time.

1) We've installed the hierarchy plugin but are not seeing the hierarchy icon on the cards. It is very cumbersome to have to go to the hierarchy report via the main project page.

2) We are not seeing the 'Card Corner Field' dropdown under Card Setup. Having the story points show up on the corner of the User Stories would be very useful.

Thanks
-V

Hi V,

We've installed the hierarchy plugin but are not seeing the hierarchy icon on the cards. It is very cumbersome to have to go to the hierarchy report via the main project page

You will need to add it through the Project planning board configuration.
1- Go to Planning Board - configuration - General
2- Select in the general setup the link type
(You must enable the Issue Linking and have at least one link type defined in your JIRA Admin)

We are not seeing the 'Card Corner Field' dropdown under Card Setup. Having the story points show up on the corner of the User Stories would be very useful

1- Go to Planning Board - configuration - General
2- You will see the column Corner with drop downs under the issue setup
(You must have at least one custom field defined for your issue types in your JIRA Admin)

Carefull there is 2 Configuration panes.
1- The GreenHopper (JIRA - ADMINISTRATION - GreenHopper)
This one will permit you to configure the default settings for all projects.
Not all settings are available.

2- The planning board configuration (PLanning board - configuration)
This one will permit you to override the settings of 1) for the selected project and configure the settings specific to the project such as Corner values

If you need more details, do not hesitate,

Cheers

Thanks! I've gotten the corner field working.

I have a followup question on the hierarchy icon though. After selecting Issue Link Type as 'Related' under General configuration, I am seeing the hierarchy icon but it only shows up in the Summary view. When I switch to Card or List view, the icon does not display.

One other question was - how is the card corner field dropdown populated? If I want to see estimated hours for a Task issue type in the dropdown, what do I need to do?

Thanks. Appreciate your prompt responses.

Vishal

You are right, the icon of the hierarchy is not present in the other views.
Space being really limited we have decided in the past to remove it.
But if we have a popular request to put it back we will certainly manage to find some space for it.

The corner combos are populated only with the custom fields.
The initial vision behind it was to be able to add visibly the story points or business value. But GreenHopper being used also for other purposes then management and other methodologies then Agile or XP we are strongly thinking of opening the "corner" to other possible values (such as remaining ..)

Cheers,

Thanks again for your prompt response.

Your plugin is looking better and better every time I use it. A few more tweaks would make it great

I would like to make a formal request for 2 additional features:

1) The ability to jump to the hierarchy view from any card from the Summary, List or Card views

2) The ability to populate fields like 'Remaining Estimate' to Tasks and Sub-Tasks.

One other thing that is confusing me is that I can't seem to pick a separate filter to be applied to the Planning Board and the Task Board.

I would really like the Planning Board to only display User Story, Bug and Improvement Issue Types and the Task Board to only display Tasks and Sub-Tasks. But if I set up a filter that works for one Board, the same filter is applied to the other Board as well making it unusable.

Am I missing a trick?

Thanks
Vishal

1) is noted
2) Populate? in the corner you mean?

And yes you are again right.
The "Context" (Filter - Highlight - ...) is an Application context not a board context. We didn't want to confuse the users when they switch from a board to another (issues vanishing kinda ...)

Cheers,

Yes, I meant being able to select Remaining Estimate as a corner field on a Task or Sub-Task card.

As for defining the contexts separately for the 2 boards, personally I think it is very distracting to see user stories on the Task Board and equally so to see Tasks in the Planning Board.

- Vishal

I totally agree with you Vishal this is why we have planned to implement a more Agile oriented task board in a couple of releases (I think it is 2.3)

You will then have 2 task boards
1- The one you have now (All issues based on context)
2- An Agile+ one with only stories in a single column and subtasks in the others.

As for 2) request I think the in progress release (2.2) "Configurable cards" will answer it.

Cheers,

Nice! Exactly how teams that use physical index cards lay out their Scrum boards.

I have some questions about product support etc and was wondering if you could send me a separate email.

Thanks
Vishal

Sure Vishal, you can contact me at jchuet@pyxis-tech.com

Cheers,

We've installed the hierarchy plugin but are not seeing the hierarchy icon on the cards. It is very cumbersome to have to go to the hierarchy report via the main project page

You will need to add it through the Project planning board configuration.
1- Go to Planning Board - configuration - General
2- Select in the general setup the link type
(You must enable the Issue Linking and have at least one link type defined in your JIRA Admin)

I've followed the instructions above and still no icon's. What to do?