Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Adding tasks to stories from tree view

Hello DEng – When you configure your feature-breakdown-tree, all cards of type other than the last type as specified in the configuration will show the (+) in the tree. This is because, as specified in the tree configuration, the last card type cannot have any children.

If you are referring to the Feature breakdown tree in the standard “Agile Hybrid Template” that ships with Mingle, as per the configuration, cards of type Feature can have children of type Story. Cards of type story cannot have any children.

Hope that clarifies things.

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / Problem with LDAP

Hello all – I would like to point you to the online help page on how to configure the LDAP Authentication in Mingle. Please refer to this page -> http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle/2.0.1/help/mingle_ldap_authentication.html and do let us know if you still encounter any problems.

Topic: Mingle API / Number of pages returned by API?

Hello rnwolf – we maybe need to be more specific in the help file about what happens when the page number is greater than the last valid page number, but I would like to assure you that what you are seeing is as per design.

Asking for the contents of a page of data that is past the last valid page, returns the data on the last valid page.

To figure out the page number of the last page of data, you can calculate it by dividing the total number of cards in a view by the number of cards in a page. As an example,

a) a view with 25 cards or less will always have only one page
b) a view with between 25-50 cards will have 2 pages
c) a view with between 50-75 cards will have 3 pages

and so on.

If on a view with only 35 cards, you request the first page of cards, you will get cards from 1-25. Page 2 will contain cards 26-35. Any page number past 2 will behave identically to a request for the last page.

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / no config file, no db connection

Hello Kimball – thanks for your detailed response. Firstly, in order to eliminate variables, I would like to mention that Mingle does not use IIS in any form. Mingle ships with an embedded web-server, which listens by default, on port 8080, or if that is not available, the first available port after 8080.

This does mean that if you have a firewall turned on, either port 8080 (by default) or the port that your Mingle server is running at would need to be open for access over the appropriate protocol (http by default).

Also, the machine name for a web server running on your machine would be dependent on your network. You can contact your network administrator to find out how to access the machine on which the Mingle server is running. If the port on which Mingle is listening is open – you can access the Mingle instance using ip address and port till such time as you can figure out the DNS name for the machine on your network.

As regards Mingle’s configuration files being present without you having to run through the setup screens; that sounds unexpected. The person setting up Mingle must run through the configuration sequence for the three yml files to be created. I would advise you to check the contents of those files, and make sure the data in them looks fine. They are plain text files, so you should have no problems there. If they do not look correct, you can

a) stop the Mingle service
b) delete the files
c) start the Mingle service
d) point your browser at http://your_server:port/

and that should run you through the configuration pages again.

If you have any further problems, you can contact our support team.

Hope that helps.

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / Mingle 2.0.1 wont install on XP SP2

Kumar – You do not need MySQL installed to install Mingle. You will need it by the time you start the Mingle configuration screens, and eventually, to run Mingle.

You also do not need Apache to run Mingle, although you could use Apache to front Mingle’s Jetty instance.

The problem about the Incorrect Function is not related to MySQL or Apache at all. Is there anything in either the system logs(windows logs) or alerts that relates to this?

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / no config file, no db connection

Hello Kimball. Did you start your browser and point it to http://localhost:8080? On Windows, wait a minute or two after the installer finishes installing, and then point your browser to that URL. You will then be taken through the installer steps which will create the required configuration files based on the information you enter.

You can find more information on installing Mingle here on the help page -> http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle/2.0.1/help/installing_mingle.html

You will need to have your database service running, before you start the configuration steps. So it would be a good idea to start your database service of choice, and then proceed with the configuration steps in Mingle.

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / css popup lists and boxes not visible

Jake – I am sorry you are experiencing trouble with Mingle. The Mingle UI should work without a problem on IE6, IE7, Firefox and Safari. Could you please provide some more concrete information on which dropdown and popup boxes you are talking about – and on which screens? Also – which browser are you using?

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Reset value of DateTime property

Aman – Mingle does not currently support a Time property. I believe rzddr was talking about the Date property. We may consider Datetime/Time properties for a future release.

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / Import from Excel: Description had tab characters

Hello sydd, you are correct. We cannot accept tabs in the content of tab separated import data. That said, there is a possibility that such data could get in – which would be through the method you just described. We look to revisit this is a future release.

Topic: Mingle API / Need a .NET working example

Aman, I have posted a response to your questions on how to configure basic authentication in your other post. If basic authentication is not setup as described, you will have problems using the API. Do let us know if you continue to face problems.

Topic: Mingle API / How do I turn on basic auth in Mingle 2.0?

Aman – we support both forms of the key. So both basic_auth_enabled and basic_authentication_enabled should work.

Also the auth_config.yml file is a file that should be in the config subdirectory of your data directory. If you are on windows, this is a directory you configure when you install Mingle for the first time. On a Mac, it is the directory you enter in the application launcher. On a unix installer, this folder should be configured in your mingle.properties file.

The test_auth_config.yml which is present under the config directory of the application does not impact how mingle works.

The following help topic provides more info on how to get started with the API -> http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle/2.0.1/help/mingle_api.html

Changes to auth_config.yml will need a server restart.

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / How to use relationship properties in where clauses of queries?

Jake – the online help does contain this information. For future quick reference , please see this page -> http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle/2.0.1/help/mql_reference.html

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / [Fixed-2.1] Unable to select a card from a card list when the name includes double quotes

Koen – I was able to verify this as a bug in the latest release of Mingle. We have logged a defect for this, and will update you when this is fixed.

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / [Fixed] Drag between Transition Only property lanes

Hello sydd – the latest release of mingle, 2.0.1 (see announcement here -> http://studios.thoughtworks.com/discussion/forums/2/topics/641) fixes this bug.

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / Mingle no longer tracks SVN revisions

Hello Marnen – it might be a bit hard to troubleshoot this issue on a forum post. It would be better if you logged a support ticket with our support team here -> http://studios.thoughtworks.com/support.

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / [resolved] Ubuntu installation -> "Invalid Char" error's in mingle.log

Hello,

2.0.1 is the latest release and was made available less than 24 hours ago.

It is available on our website at http://studios.thoughtworks.com/mingle/trial#download.

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Does Mingle scale well?

Koen – thank you for bringing your problems to our notice. The number of cards on your project does not impact Mingle’s ability to scale. No particular project or its data should impact how Mingle scales.

Performance of Mingle, on the other hand, is dependent on many factors, including project structure (tree configurations, property count, etc.) and, unfortunately, we cannot help you without knowing specifics of your project.

I would suggest that you log an issue with the mingle support team; along with specifics about your project. A project export/db export, with sanitized data, would be most appreciated.

To give you some details of configurations that do not cause a problem, the mingle instance we use to run the mingle project contains more than 3700 cards & 4 trees, The instance runs on a Windows VM with 2GB RAM; MySQL db.

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / shared wiki pages

Hello Jake, you are correct – wiki pages in one project cannot be accessed outside of that project. Is there a specific reason you would like to do this?

Topic: Mingle API / Mingle API Correction?

Hello Thomas – this has been fixed in the latest version of the help. Thanks for bringing this to our attention.

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Mingle 1.2?

Hello Jay, responses to forum posts might be a bit slow over the next few days as most of the team in Beijing is away for the Chinese New Year. I would suggest waiting a bit longer – and keep checking our website. If there is something to know about the new release – that is where you will see it first!

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / [candidate] Export needs to include meta data

Brad – you might also be interested in this link which explains the basics of how to use the history filter and why you might find it useful. http://journal.bitshaker.com/articles/2008/01/30/mingle-tip-keeping-casual-users-in-the-loop

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / [bug] error importing into newly created project via paste from excel

Dave – I tried to recreate the issue with the sandbox data on mingle03. I was able to import the whole spreadsheet without much issue in just under a minute. The data of DP testing takes a long while – and that is going to get faster with the change that Jon mentions above. Thanks a lot for your comments – and I hope you can test out the sandbox data again soon.

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Do the graphs on the overview page relate to one specific release?

Hey Ian – the graphs you create (or that ship with your template) are all customizable to exactly your project’s properties. So if you have a property called “release” and created your graphs with that as a part of the graph definition (by specifying something like “where Release = 1”) – you would have relase specific graphs. Also, since the graph definitions are just embedded in the wiki content of the page, you can take a look at any of them to see their definition.
Is there any one specific graph that you would like more information on?

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / [fixed] Saving of property value updates from property editor not working

This is an intermittent problem that we have had with the property editor in the card “show”/”view” mode. Is this problem consistently reproducible? If so, we would love to hear how – so that we can fix it.