Insight 4.0 release notes

Overhauled Graph Implementation

We have totally re-designed the graph implementation and added a lot of goodies for you to make asset visualisation as it should be.

Object Schema / Object Type Graph

Get a visual overview or dig into the details of your object schema.

You are now able to:

• View all dependencies between object types 
• View parent/child dependencies
• Create dependencies in the graph itself
• Visualize the relative amount of object data between object types as shown in the picture below (the thicker the object type frame is, the more objects it contains)

Object Graph

The object graph is powerful when analysing dependencies between objects and also when you perform impact analysis. View up to five levels of reference depth or drill down the dependency mapping by clicking on the object of interest.

Get answers to questions like:

• What services are affected when a server becomes unavailable? 
• What part of your business is affected if a license expire? 
• Which software and hardware is installed on a specific server?

Automation

We are excited to finally unleash the true power of enterprise asset management with limitless automation.

With a simple, intuitive UI, the automation engine performs actions based on specific events and conditions defined by you. Create action-based rules to do things such as creating JIRA issues, notifying management, execute groovy scripts or run HTTP requests. Design your own automation rules with total freedom.

The use cases for this are almost endless, but here are a few:

• Automatically create an Incident in JIRA and send me an SMS when one of our production servers becomes unresponsive
• Automatically send me an email four weeks prior to license expiration of all Windows Server licenses in my environment
• Automatically update a third party ordering system when an employee has been in possession of the same computer for three years
• Automatically create a RFC if an application of a certain type hasn't been upgraded for six months

You now have the power to automatically control and manage your entire set of enterprise assets. 

Insight 4.0 has the following available actions:

• Send email
• Create JIRA Issue
• Groovy Script
• HTTP request

New and Improved Search Features

We have made object searching more convenient and powerful to speed up your productivity when using Insight.

Global object search

Do you know exactly the name of the object you are looking for? We have added a quick search so you can get to it directly without fuzz.

Search on all objects in the schema by either Name or Key with support for autofill.

Power to the Object Picker

We have made the object picker search feature more powerful to help you find your objects faster. Use this feature by clicking on the object picker icon next to your custom field.

Use the Search to find objects with certain attribute values. For example, if you know the IP address of a specific server or that an employee is located in a specific office, you may find that object immediately.

New Insight Core 

We have re-written the Insight core implementation to make it more robust, for better performance and to improve data consistency.

The JAVA-API has a new package that needs to be changed in all custom implementations. The new package is: "com.riadalabs.jira.plugins.insight.channel.external.api.facade". You have access to the API within groovy scripts, but also if you want to create your own JIRA plugin working with the Insight JAVA-API.

Read more about the API here: Insight App Development and the Javadoc.

Bug fixes and improvements

• We now support JIRA Field configuration context for all of our custom fields
• Objects in JQL are named "Name (Key)" and not just "Key". (We still support just Key)
• IQL support in reports and gadgets
• CSV Import - You need to provide an CSV that only contains value editable attributes. The CSV import will be changed in later releases where you may choose attributes to connect your CSV data as you are able to do in JIRA
• IE 11 add attachments bug
• Key generator on object schema creation
• Remember object reference ordering in object overview
• Attribute type not possible to change if any object has set a value on the attribute (Major)
• Possible to use groovy files in post functions instead of built in scripts. Useful if you want to use the same script at different places
• Create Statuses and references type fix so they persist at object schema level if created there
• Highlighted tabs in configuration fix
• Right click and "open in new tab" fix for "configure" menu
• Attribute Filters exclude objects from suggested objects in JIRA filters
• Unique validation fix when two requests makes a validation at the same time
• Performance problems of Agile Cards with Insight fields has been fixed
• Copy object types bug
• Fixed "Duplicated objects" in JIRA ServiceDesk issue details that happens occasionally
• Minor improvements

Before upgrading to Insight 4.0