4.8 Managing Team Development Utilities

Use Team Development Utilities to configure Team Development settings, view release summary information, enable support for file upload, access feature utilities, manage focus areas, update assignees, view uploaded files, purge data, manage news, and update links.

The Utilities region displays on the right side of the Team Development home page.

See Also:

"Managing Team Development" in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide

4.8.1 Accessing Team Development Utilities

Use Team Development Utilities to manage team development data. You can access Team Development Utilities from either the Utilities region on the Team Development home page or from Utilities page.

To access Team Development Utilities:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Note the Utilities region on the right side of the page.

    Tip:

    You can access most utilities by either clicking links in the Utilities region or by accessing the Utilities page.

  3. From the Utilities region on the right side of the page, click All Utilities.
  4. The Utilities page features the following links:
    • Team Development Settings - Specify how To Dos and bugs display, configure default values for release, owner, and priority, and determine what tracking attributes are enabled for the current workspace.

    • Release Summary - Review workspace and developer statistics.

    • Disable Files/Enable Files - Links to an administration page that where you can enable or disable support for file upload. The text that displays changes based on the current configuration.

    • Feature Utilities - Manage milestones for multiple features at once. Use this page to assign milestones to features, set the feature due date to a milestone date, change milestone for overdue features, and push due dates for open features.

    • Manage Focus Areas - Manage focus areas that display on the Feature page.

    • Update Assignees - Enables you to reassign selected components. Only incomplete components can reassigned (that is, those components having a status less than 100% or milestone date in the future).

    • View Files - Manage uploaded files attached to features, To Dos, and bugs.

      This option toggles between View Files and Enable Files depending upon whether your administrator has enabled file upload capability. If Enable Files displays, then file upload capability has not yet been enabled by your administrator.

    • Purge Data - Delete all entries for the selected components. This is useful when beginning a new development cycle or after using a workspace for testing.

    • Manage News - Manage news entries that display on the Team Development home page and Workspace home page.

    • Manage Links - Manage links to share with other workspace users.

    • Auto Create To Dos - Automatically create a To Do for every page in an application.

    • Push Past Due Bugs -  Extend the estimated fix date of open bugs. You can filter and then select just the bugs you want to push and then extend for any number of days.

See Also:

4.8.2 Configuring Team Development Settings

Configure Team Development Settings to specify default behavior for features and To Dos. Choose default values for the release, owner, and priority, and determine what feature attributes are enabled for the current workspace.

To edit Team Development settings:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click Team Development Settings.

    The Settings page appears.

  3. Edit the appropriate attributes.

    To learn more about an attribute, see field-level Help.

    1. Release - Default release used when creating new tasks.
    2. Owner - Default owner when creating features and To Do tasks.
    3. Priority - Default priority when creating features.
    4. Enable Approval Status - Enables or disables feature approval status.
  4. Under, Track Attributes specify which attributes are available. For each group of attributes, select Yes to include the group or No to hide the group.
    1. User Interface
    2. Testing
    3. Documentation
    4. Globalization
    5. Security
    6. Accessibility
  5. Click Apply Changes.

Tip:

Click Reset to Default to return the settings to the default values.

4.8.3 Viewing a Release Summary

View a summary of report by release or milestones on the Release Summary page.

To access the Release Summary report:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click Release Summary.
    The Release Summary page appears.
  3. Use the Search bar at the top of the page to filter the view.
    • From Show, select Milestones Details or Summary.
    • To filter the view, select a developer or release and click Set.
  4. To email the report:
    1. Click Email.
    2. On the Email Report page, fill in the appropriate fields. Mandatory fields are marked with a red asterisk (*).

      To learn more about an attribute, see field-level Help.

    3. Click Email.
  5. Click Reset to return the report to the default view.

4.8.4 Managing Feature Utilities

Use the Feature Utilities page to assign milestones to features, set feature due dates to milestone dates, or push due dates of open features.

To access Feature Utilities:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click Feature Utilities.
  3. On the Feature Utilities, select a utility:
    • Assign milestones to features (only those with no milestone currently assigned)

    • Set feature due date to milestone date (only affects features)

    • Push due date of open features

  4. Click Next.
  5. Follow the on-screen instructions.

4.8.5 Renaming Focus Areas

When you create or update a feature, you can assign it to a focus area. Use Manage Focus Areas, to rename a focus area.

To rename an existing feature focus area:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click Manage Focus Areas.

    The Manage Focus Areas page appears.

  3. Locate the focus area and click the Edit icon.
  4. In Rename To, enter your edits and click Apply Changes.

4.8.6 Downloading File Attachments

If enabled at the workspace-level, you can attach files to a feature, To Do, or bug. Use the Team Development Files page to download attached files.

Tip:

To use this feature, you must set the Enable File Repository attribute to Yes in Administration, Manage Service, Set Workspace Preferences. Administrators can also access this page in Team Development by clicking Enable Files on the Team Actions list.

To download files attached to features, To Dos, and bugs:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click the View Files.

    The Team Development Files page appears.

  3. To download a file, click the name.

See Also:

"Enabling Support for File Attachments in Team Development" in Oracle Application Express Administration Guide.

4.8.7 Purging Data

Remove data associated with a Team Development component type (that is, features, milestones, To Dos, bugs, or feedback).

To purge data associated with a component type:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click the Purge Data.
  3. Under Purge Data, select the type of data to purge:
    • Features
    • Milestones
    • To Dos
    • Bugs
    • Feedback
  4. Click Purge.

4.8.8 Managing News Entries

Use the News region to communicate with other users in the current workspace. News displays on the Application Express home page, the Team Development home page, and News page.

To add, edit, or delete new entries:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click Manage News.
    The News page appears.
  3. To add a news item:
    1. Click Add News.
    2. On the News page, enter text in the News Entry field.
    3. Click Add News.
  4. To edit a news item:
    1. Select the news item.
    2. Edit the News Entry.
    3. Click Apply Changes.
  5. To delete a news item:
    1. Select the news item.
    2. Click Delete.

4.8.9 Managing Links with Workspace Members

To add, edit, or delete links:

  1. On the Workspace home page, click the Team Development icon.
  2. Under Utilities, click Manage Links.
    The News page appears.
  3. To add a link:
    1. Click Create Link.
    2. On the Links page, edit the appropriate fields. Mandatory fields are marked with a red asterisk (*). To learn more about an attribute, see field-level Help.
    3. Click Create Link.
    4. To access the link, click the Link Name.
  4. To edit a link:
    1. Click the Edit icon adjacent to the Link Name.
    2. On the Links page, edit the appropriate fields. Mandatory fields.
    3. Click Apply Changes.
  5. To delete a link:
    1. Click the Edit icon adjacent to the Link Name.
    2. On the Links page, edit the appropriate fields. Mandatory fields.
    3. Click Delete.