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In order to navigate to the Board’s Admin Page, click on the "Settings" button in the top right corner of the release board or select “Settings“ from the actions list on the “Release Boards“ Page.

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The board configuration screen consists of few sections, namely:

  • General 

    • allow users to configure basic board parameters, add and/or delete projects and (coming soon) share the board with other users.

  • Versions workflow 

    • helps to define custom release versions workflow by adding, changing or removing columns. Also, defines a mapping between Jira "Released" / "Unreleased" standard statuses and custom columns on the board.

General section

On the General section an administrator can:

Available now:

  • change the board name

  • add or remove projects from the board

Coming soon:

  • add or delete board administrators

There is no need to confirm the changes. They are saved automatically once control losses the focus.

Projects on the board

You can add projects to the release board and/or remove them. All Versions from selected projects are displayed on the board. 

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There are two ways to get to Plan Settings. If you are in the plan click “Settings“ gear close to plan name.

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If you are at Manage Plans page select “Settings” from the action menu for appropriate plan.

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Info

You can only access Settings screen if you are listed as one of Plan’s Administrators. Read more on Permission Management below

General settings

Probably the very basic thing you can do on General section of the settings is to change the name or your plan. We use in line editing, so just click on it to alter.

Projects on the plan

In addition to name change you can also amend a list of Jira projects you associate with your board: - the ones you picked up during board creation.

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Project picker outlines only the projects where current user has “Browse project” permissions. Otherwise, the project will not be available from the list. The same logic is applied to all other projects on the board plan that have already been added to the board plan by other users.

Once you delete project from the list all the releases (versions) from this project will be deleted from the plan. And logically, once you add new project to the list all the releases (versions) from this project will be added to the plan.

Permissions management

There are two levels of board plan permissions, namely Administration and Browse permissions.

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Administration permissions

Board Plan Administrators are able to browse the board plan and change its configuration. It is possible to add few couple of Administrators to the board plan by mixing individual users and groups. 

Tip

Global Jira Administrators have administrative access to each

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plan. It doesn't matter if they are explicitly added to the

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plan as Administrators, or not.

Note

The

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Plan Administrators can delete themselves from the list unless there is at least one active Administrator remaining in the list. If user tries to delete the last remaining Administrator of the list the warning message will appear preventing this action to happen.

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Browse permissions

Browse board plan permissions are granted by using the "Share board plan with" feature. Board

Tip

Plan Administrators and global Jira Administrators have

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plan browse permissions by default.

If the user has Browse board plan permission but does not have Browse Project permission  - releases (versions) from those projects will not be shown on the boardplanIn that case, the user will see a warning next to the board name:

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There are 3 options to share the boardplan:

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  • Users of projects in board plan

    • this option grants View Board Plan permission to all users who have permission to view projects added to the boardplan

  • Users of specific projects

    • View Board Plan permission is granted to all users who have permissions to browse selected projects. 

  • Users and groups

    • share Share the board plan with specified users and groups by granting them View Board permissionPlan permissions.

Hide outdated

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items on Roadmap and Calendar

You can automatically hide releases items on Roadmap and Calendar that have not been update for sometime. The following time intervals are supported:

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Color coding for

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items on Roadmap and Calendar

You can configure color coding for cards on the board and bars on the Roadmap and Calendar. Most of options are based on release workflow state or release scope progress.

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The rules are the following:

Version (Fix VersionRelease)

  • By Board Column Status (Default)

    • Blue - Unreleased

    • Green - Released

    By Progress

    • Green >90% are Done

    • Yellow >20% are Done

    • Orange >5% are Done or “in progress” !=0

    • Grey - 0% done

  • Custom (see below)

    • Grey by default

    • with option to select custom color coding for individual Fix Versions

Epic

Board Column Status (Default)

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Blue - Unreleased

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  • By Epic Status

    • Status Category (Todo, In Progress, Done )

  • By Progress

    • Green >90% are Done

    • Yellow >20% are Done

    • Orange >5% are Done or “in progress” !=0

    • Grey - 0% done

  • Custom (see below)

    • Grey by default

    • with option to select custom color coding for individual Epics

Sprint

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    • Blue - Unreleased

    • Green - Released

    Sprint StatusSprint State

    • Grey - Not Started

    • Blue - In Progress

    • Green - Done

  • By Progress

    • Green >90% are Done

    • Yellow >20% are Done

    • Orange >5% are Done or “in progress” !=0

    • Grey - 0% done

  • Custom (see below)

    • Grey by default

    • with option to select custom color coding for individual Epics

Virtual Version

Board Column Status (Default)

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Blue - Unreleased

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JQL Version

  • By Progress

    • Green >90% are Done

    • Yellow >20% are Done

    • Orange >5% are Done or “in progress” !=0

    • Grey - 0% done

  • Custom (see below)

    • Grey by default

    • with option to select custom color coding for individual Epics

Package

  • Board Column Status(Default)
    • Grey - Todo

    • Yellow - In Progress

    • Green - Done

  • By Progress

    • Green >90% are Done

    • Yellow >20% are Done

    • Orange >5% are Done or “in progress” !=0

    • Grey - 0% done

  • Custom (see below)

    • Grey by default

    • with option to select custom color coding for individual Epics

Custom color coding

If you select Custom in any of the dropdowns above all the release items of selected category (Fix Versions, Epics, Sprints, JQL versions) will be color by default in Grey. But this turns on the flexibility of coloring individual release items with the pallet you like (similar to Epics in Jira).

To do so click on release item any of the item on Roadmap or Calendar view to show details popup. Close to the name you will see a pallet with an option to pick up a custom color.

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Blackout Periods (Non-working Days)

Configurations

In “Non-working Days“ section of Board Configuration you can setup backout periods.

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To create one put the name you would like to use in the hints, start/end date and one of suggested colors from the pallet. The periods could not be overlapping.

We support inline editing so to amend click on any property of existing period in the grid to change.

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To delete period click on delete button on the right. You would need to confirm before blackout period will be permanently deleted.

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Roadmap and Calendar views

Once configured in board sessions backout periods will be shown on Calendar and Roadmap view using the shades of the colors picked up. Once you put the mouse on the day caption a tooltip with backout hint will be show.

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Same functionality is available in Roadmap and Calendar gadgets.

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Check out respective section of documentation for Blackout periods (or Non-working days) feature.

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