Polarion ALM 21_R1

Polarion ALM 21 R1 is available

In this release, we deliver significant collaboration enhancements to existing functionality, based on feedback from our customers who use our solutions every day, as well as usability and performance improvements.

Significant enhancements were done to the following: 

• LiveDoc Collaboration – You can now see how many people are working concurrently on a Document, and conflict merging is improved.
• User Authentication – This release brings a major rework of user authentication, including the possibility to authenticate against multiple providers.
• Improvements to Connectors – ReqIF auto-mapping, planning data sync with Jira, and more.

Let’s take a deep dive into all improvements the new release brings.

Collaborative LiveDoc Editing

Collaboration Notifications

In order to help improve collaboration between users and be aware of potential concurrent edits, Polarion has been enhanced to provide a visual notification when multiple users have the same LiveDoc open for editing. We call these Collaboration Notifications. These notifications are pushed to users so they do not have to refresh their browsers to get the latest status.

• A new icon in the Document Editor toolbar shows the number of people working with the Document, so the users can see whether they are the only person working with the Document (the green status with the “You” caption), or whether there is a risk of potential conflicting changes because there are other people in the same Document. (The green status with a number).
• Clicking the icon displays a list of people concurrently working on the Document.
• The Icon is disabled and greyed out if the Notification service is offline.

In 21 R1 the feature only shows users working on the same Document, but does not show details about their actions. However, stay tuned. Different statuses for reading (green), editing (orange), and saved changes (red) by other users in the same document are planned for a future release.