Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / No locking?!

John

Although, as you might expect, we have been discussing this issue we have made no concrete plans on if, when and how to implement any type of data protection (locking/merging) functionality. It is our practise to try to update the forums when we make progress on issues so stay in touch to get updates on this.

Also, if you have any particular scenarios that are problematic for your team (e.g. dragging cards on the grid view to update property values or multiple analysts and customers updating cards descriptions) that you think may help us understand where implementing this type of functionality would be most useful then please drop us a line.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / [candidate] Specify project variables as default values

Ben

The ability to set project variables as the values of properties on card defaults will be available in Mingle 2.3. This will allow you to set all stories to have the “Iteration Added” property value as the value of the (Current Iteration) project variable on creation.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Custom headings for a table macro

Hey Ben

There is no way to override the generated headings on the standard macros. I know it is unlikely you would want to do this but you could rename those properties and this would update the headings to match.

However, likely more useful to you is the ability to create bespoke macros. To find out more about Mingle macro development look out for the Mingle 2.2 release which is coming very soon.

Cheers
-Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / [candidate] sort and color by user

Hi Bas

Yes, I agree this is a nice feature. It has been added to our backlog for future prioritisation.

Thanks
- Suzie

P.S. For those who are interested, this is the same as this request which I have also moved to the feature request forum.

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / MQL Self Reference

Hi Russell

Thanks for making us aware of this issue. Currently when using the MQL syntax TAGGED WITH THIS CARD the error is incorrectly handled and we have logged a defect to resolve this.

I apologise as I think it may be too late to help you but, for future reference and for other users, TAGGED WITH THIS CARD is not valid MQL syntax. This the same as using TAGGED WITH TODAY or TAGGED WITH CURRENT USER. If it is the case that you have tagged cards with a tag called THIS CARD (or TODAY or CURRENT USER) then you need to refer to this using quotes e.g. TAGGED WITH “THIS CARD”. You should see no issues using this format.

Please let us know if we can be of further assistance.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Using the Iteration Start/End Dates to select stories

Hey Olivier

At the moment you can not refer to a property value of a card you are on (e.g. [End Date of the Iteration whose card I’m on] or [End Date of the Iteration whose card I’m on]) but you can refer to the card you are on using THIS CARD.

So if you were to have properties called “Iteration Committed On’ and “Iteration Accepted On’ then you could write the following MQL:

{{ 
table query: SELECT number, name, ‘Planning Estimate’ WHERE ‘type’ = ‘Story’ and 
‘Iteration Committed On’ = THIS CARD AND ‘Iteration Accepted On’ > THIS CARD
}}

and this should return you the cards that you want.

As you may be aware you can use transitions to set property values when stories move through states so to make it easier to create these tables you could use transitions to set the ‘Iteration Committed On’ and ‘Iteration Accepted On’ for you.

I hope this information helps.

Cheers Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / [candidate] Project variable card values in defaults

Adrian

We like this one too and have plans to implement this in the new year.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / Centralized Templates

Hey Ben

I think this is the same request as this one (http://studios.thoughtworks.com/discussion/forums/6/topics/804) right? I know the searching on here is a little less than desirable so I understand if you ‘lost’ your previous request. Please be assured that we have heard you. When we look at templating again (which we have some tentative plans to) I will bring up this issue.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / How to restore deleted story in a project?

Hi

Cards that are deleted are permanently deleted from the database. There is no way to restore that story. If you have exported this project using excel export or project export you may have the story data stored in the export and can use this information to recreate the story in your project.

In the future if you think there is a chance that people will need to restore deleted stories, it may help if you create a “trash” or “archive” card type as described in this post which you should encourage users to use instead of deleting cards.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / Longer Text Fields

Hey thanks

Sorry about having to post twice. I did see both messages this morning but as we have moderation on this forum at the moment posts must be approved before being shown. I just approved one. I hope that is ok.

FYI we are planning a move to a new community site soon and on this posts should be shown immediately.

Thanks for the update.
-Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / Cascade Property Name Change

Hey Adrian

Yes. I agree this would be very nice. We have this in our backlog but it is not prioritised for play yet. I’ll update it our story with your request.

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / Longer Text Fields

Hey

What kind of thing are you recording in the text fields?

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / [candidate] Setting up card properties for any given card type so that they are either mandatory or hidden during the new card creation process

Hi Rishi

Sorry not to reply to this post sooner.

With regard to a) this is something that we are considering providing in the future so I have marked this post as a candidate feature. Further to b) this is already provided. Card properties can be set as hidden by project admins from the “Card Properties” admin option. Any hidden properties will not be shown on the card during initial creation or afterwards and therefore, cannot be set manually by users.

- Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Functionality to communicate with users by email

Marco

Mingle provides some email communication functionality via the “Watch this?” option on each card and wiki page as well as the ability to track property changes via email and feed from the history filter.

To further explain the functionality available please take a look at our help here. Please do not necessitate to drop us a line if you require further information.

From your post it seems that you may also require functionality that allows users to be able to email Mingle to initiate workflows or behaviour in Mingle. Currently we do not support functionality which allow users to ‘email in’ information but this is something we have discussed providing. If this is something that is important for you perhaps you can help us understand this requirement more and describe the scenario where it is useful to you or your users. You suggest bug reports and we would be interested to know what information users would want to email to Mingle, for example, it is just status updates such as “Fixed” or “Closed” or do your users want to email in initial bug reports?

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle Feature Requests / [candidate] Mandatory properties

Colin

Making card properties mandatory, particularly during card creation (as described here) is something we are considering for upcoming releases.

To help our prioritisation it would be helpful to know the scenario you need mandatory properties in. For example, this is for bug tracking, story creation etc…?

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / Printing Cards

Hi Andrey

I am afraid this is an issue we are aware and have in the backlog to fix. We will let you know when a fix for this is available.

Thanks
-Suzie

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / can't setup project repository settings

Hey

You should expect 2.2 early next year as we planning that release for January 2009.

The best place at the moment to discuss issues is right here on these forums. We currently do not have an open project to track bugs, stories etc… but if we did I think it would be a Mingle project and not Jira! :)

We are also intending to expand our forums and community next year as well. Watch these forums for more on this….

- Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / How to create new swinlane in QA wall?

Hi there

To add a swinlane on a grid view (QA Card Wall) select “Add/remove lane” on the right hand side above the grid lanes. If the status you wish to add is not listed (e.g. Testing Blocked) you must first create a new value for the property (in this case the property is “Story Status”) from the card properties admin page. This new value will then be available to add as grid lane on the QA Card Wall as this view is grouped by property Story Status.

If you have not already attended one of our webcasts you may like to request one as they should help you gain a deeper understanding of Mingle and aid your evaluation.

Please do not hesitate to request further information via our forums or directly from our support team.

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Filter value does not appear

Adrian

Basically any unmanaged properties are not available to filter by in the regular card filter. You may also notice that they are also unavailable to group by in the grid view. The reason we decided to restrict this is because unmanaged properties tend to have large numbers of values and as our current property value selection widget does not support a scenario where there are indefinite values very well we chose not to support this at that time.

You can however, use the recently introduced MQL filter to filter by these properties.

I hope that this explanation helps you.

- Suzie

Topic: Troubleshooting Installation of Mingle / can't setup project repository settings

nodje

Your update to Subversion 1.5 is likely to be the problem here as Mingle 2.1 does not support Subversion 1.5. We aim to be supporting Subversion 1.5 in Mingle 2.2. May I suggest you return to Subversion 1.4 and try again?

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / Service won't start

Hey Kimball

Did you take a look at the Mingle log? This can be found in Mingle installation folder at …/Contents/Resources/app/log/. This should give you further information with regard to this error.

Please get in touch with us via this forum or contact our support team if you require further assistance.

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle General Discussion / card type Release doesn't belong to tree Planning tree

Adrian

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. I don’t believe you are missing anything and that this is in fact a defect. I have been able to reproduce this and have raised the defect in our project. I hope we will have a fix for this soon. Sorry for the inconvenience.

As always we will let the forum know when this has been resolved.

Thanks Suzie

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / Wiki pages title in non-English

Andrey

This issue has not be fixed in 2.1. We currently have this issue planned for development that will start towards the end of this year or early next year. We will update the forum when a fix is available.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / Stacked bar chart ignores x-label(s)-end

Hi Andy

Sorry not to reply sooner to this.

First of all the parameter for the stack bar chart is called x-label-end and not labels. With regard to using this in the way you would like I believe there are a couple of issues here. The first is that we don’t expect stacked bar chart to plot x labels when there is no data for that label. However, you should be able to limit the labels to a subset of iterations (with data) using x-label-end and this does appear not to work at the moment. I believe there is also an issue using x-label-start to limit the labels as well. I have logged the defects and will update you when the issues are resolved.

Thanks
- Suzie

Topic: Mingle Bug Reports / Importing stories and tasks from another tool

Hey there

You can do this via the excel import. However, you need to ensure that the property you choose to import to is a relationship property (i.e. allows cards as it’s value) and has been created prior to import (card and tree relationship properties can not be created during import).

You can either create a card relationship property (via card property admin) or a tree relationship property (via tree configuration). If you create a card relationship property stories can be linked to tasks (or any other cards) without the need for a tree. If you choose to use a tree then during the import you will need to select the name of the tree you are importing.

Please let us know if you need further details.
Thanks
- Suzie