DevOps Dashboard, Beta 2 Available

In January, we announced a beta for our DevOps Dashboard. Today, we are pleased to announce the availability of our second beta. If you have already registered for the beta, you should have received an email with a link to download beta 2. If you haven’t yet registered, what are you waiting for? No really, we want to know!

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What’s new in beta 2? Here is a list of some of the improvements we’ve made:

• Gadgets now hide their edit buttons if the gadget is not editable
• Layout of the widget store had been improved

• Home icon has been removed. Clicking on HCL Logo takes you ''home''
• Shared dashboards now work with IBM ClearQuest gadgets
• Refresh and Edit Content have been added to widget menu
• Dashboard document gadget now expands vertically as you type
• Responsiveness of the UI has improved, try it on a mobile phone or tablet

In addition to these improvements we have fixed over 20 defects. Here are some of the significant ones we fixed:

• Profile image now displays correctly in Internet Explorer
• Password fields are now obscured
• "Widget has been added to the page" no longer blocks the navigation bar
• Delete Page and delete widget from page now ask for confirmation

• Miscellaneous improvements have been made to forms
• "Move widget" menu no longer has duplicate entries
• You can now unshare and reshare dashboards
• You can now create charts with dotted field paths (referenced records)
• OAuth consumer list no longer turns the gadget pattern into a clickable link

• OAuth works correctly when the OAuth host URL has no port
  
  

Our focus in the next few betas is to improve the integration with IBM ClearQuest, including gadgets with more IBM ClearQuest capabilities, improving the user experience, and hardening security. Is there something else you think we should be focusing on? We’d love to hear from you. 

We have set up a DevOps Dashboard Beta community page with lots of content. You can go there to register for and download the beta, view documentation, watch demos, read blogs and do tutorials. We expect to add more content every week. This should be enough to get you started. 
 
We’d love to hear your feedback and ideas. Are we going in the right direction? What would you like to see in the dashboard? How will you be using it in your environment? What products would you like to see integrated into the dashboard? No suggestion is too small! Found a bug? Need help? Let us know in our beta forum. 


Adam Skwersky
Enterprise Architect at HCL