Rally Office Hours:
July 23, 2026

Summary

Product announcements

• Custom page migration: Page migration progress is up about 2% from last week, currently sitting at nearly 38% completion (08:33).
• Upcoming widgets: New widgets with fairly high usage are expected to be released in the coming weeks (09:15).
• Query counter widget: A new query counter widget, which can also serve as a rich text widget, will be released in the next week or two (47:18).
• Custom board enhancements: Enhancements are coming soon to the custom board to enable advanced Kanban board functionality, such as mapping columns to schedule states for schedulable artifacts (48:24).

Q&A

• Bulk deep copy functionality: The team clarified that there is currently no way to bulk deep copy multiple portfolio items at the same time unless they share a common parent item (15:20).
• Custom view section limits: The current maximum limit for sections in custom views is 10, with no immediate plans to increase it, though users are encouraged to submit feedback detailing their specific use cases (19:32).
• Parent-to-child field propagation: There is no native functionality within the Rally user experience to propagate fields from higher-level portfolio items to lower-level items, though it is possible using ConnectAll or custom scripting (21:52).
• Feature-level story status reporting: A user asked about listing open user stories under specific features without drilling down, and the team suggested using an ancestor query filter in the user interface (24:29).
• Timesheet data in custom views: A user requested the ability to see timesheet hours per week within custom views, which the team noted down as a new feature request (27:18).
• Velocity throughput widget filtering: A user inquired about excluding "withdrawn" status records from the velocity throughput widget, but the team confirmed this filtering is not supported on that specific widget (30:04).
• Work rules best practices: The team and participants discussed effective governance work rules, such as requiring a resolution before closing a defect or locking down features after they move to a realizing state to prevent retroactive updates (35:52).
• Rich text editing in iteration fields: In response to a query about using rich text inside iteration widgets, the team noted that users can achieve this through view filter substitutions or the upcoming query counter widget (45:10).
• Feature changes over time tracking: A user asked about getting a comprehensive baseline summary of features at the start versus the end of a program increment, and the team suggested placing the scope changes over time widget side-by-side with the implied progress in release widget (50:19).

Event news

• Rally product roadmap: The next Rally product roadmap session is coming up in a few weeks, following PI planning in the first week of August (53:47).
• Delivery data webinar: A webinar titled "When Delivery Data Matters" is scheduled for September 2nd, featuring insights from both the Rally and Scaled Agile teams (54:22).
• Custom page migration resource: The team highlighted a recently recorded webinar available on BrightTalk titled "Mastering the Transition from Custom Pages to Custom Views" as a guide for self-migration (55:12).
• ValueOps Academy training: Free classes, metric fundamentals, and archives of past office hours are continuously available on the ValueOps Academy platform (56:06).

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