Atlassian have announced the most significant release of Greenhopper, JIRA’s agile project management plugin, since it joined the Atlassian family.

Atlassian have responded to Customer comments and requests with this release, fixing a number of GreenHopper issues and revamping the User Interface to more closely reflect JIRA.

Highlights of the GreenHopper V5.0 release:

Revised User Interface

GreenHopper 5.0 introduces a revised user interface focusing on improved performance, usability, accessibility, and visibility.

Inline editing

Inline editing is available for all fields in all views (Summary, Card and List), saving you significant time when editing issues.

Dialogs

Access to common actions are available via the icon (which will appear when you hover over the Issue Type or Priority icons), these common actions include:

• Add Sub-task — Click to add a sub-task to this issue (if sub-tasks are enabled).
• Edit in JIRA — Click to open the JIRA 'Edit Issue' screen, on which all issue fields are available for editing.
• Update Priority — Click to edit the Priority field for this issue.
• Comment — Click to quickly add a comment to this issue.
• Flag — Click to flag this issue for special attention. Click it again to unflag this issue.
• Delete — Click to delete this issue.

Quick Filters

GreenHopper 5.0 introduces a 'Quick Filters' bar, grouping existing issues and enabling you to quickly filter the displayed issues by:

• 'Only My Issues' — Only display issues which are assigned to you.
• 'Hide Sub-Tasks' — Only display issues which are not sub-tasks of other issues.
• 'Only Pending Issues' — Only display issues which have not yet been scheduled.

Drag and drop pagination

GreenHopper 5.0 allows you to place card(s) at an exact position on a Planning Board that has multiple pages(pagination).

Kanban Improvements

Kanban users can now specify a minimum constraint, in addition to the pre-existing maximum constraint. A column which falls below one or more specified minimum constraints will be highlighted in yellow to indicate spare capacity in your team and that additional cards can be pulled in to that column.

Unlimited Assignees on the Planning Board

In previous versions of GreenHopper, 'Assignee' mode was not available on the Planning Board for projects with more than 75 assignable users.

If you run very large projects, you will be pleased to hear that this restriction has now been removed, and the 'Assignee' mode is now always available on the Planning Board. We recommend that you create a group for your assignable users per project, ensuring you only see those users relevant to the project.

Carry On Work

With GreenHopper 5.0 teams can now carry on work across sprints with confidence their statistics (Story Points, for instance) will be retained in the correct versions. Story Points will be 'burned' in the Released version, but the issue itself will be used for generating metrics for both the released and unreleased version it is included in. The Released Board now has a release mechanism for generating dynamic charts, meaning that static charts will no longer be stored on the filesystem.

Plus over 45 fixes and improvements

Clearvision is an official Atlassian partner with customers throughout the world. Clearvision specialise in Atlassian GreenHopper Training, Atlassian GreenHopper User Support, Atlassian Products such as our Subversion JIRA integration (JIRA2SVN) and Atlassian GreenHopper Consulting. Clearvision work with all Atlassian products including JIRA, Confluence, Crucible, Crown, FishEye, Bamboo and GreenHopper.