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  • 1.  Creating Children Inherits Parent Color

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 7 days ago
    Edited by Nate Bever 6 days ago

    Hello everyone,

    A small but useful "quality of life" feature will be released Monday, July 7th, where child items will inherit their parent's DIsplayColor upon creation.  Many of you (like us) use DisplayColor to make it simple to see which work items are associated with which Feature or Portfolio Item hierarchy.  In the past, that meant manually changing the color of these items right after their creation and periodically checking that no new items were created with different colors. 

    Now the default color for a child item will be the same as its parent, except where templates are involved.  Template settings will always overrule this default behavior.

    Thank you,
    -Rally Product Management



  • 2.  RE: Creating Children Inherits Parent Color

    Posted 2 days ago

    Hi Nate,

    Is this released yet?  I have a template that only applies to the Description field on new User Stories, it does not affect the DisplayColor attribute, but the User Story is not inheriting the Parent Feature's DisplayColor. I would expect it to respect a template that provides a specific DisplayColor, but not be affected by templates that only apply to other fields. Is that not how this is working?



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    Terry Ginzburg
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  • 3.  RE: Creating Children Inherits Parent Color

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted 2 days ago
    Hi Terry,

    Yes, this is live for all of our subscriptions and should be working as you
    described. If your template does not contain "DisplayColor", it should use
    the DisplayColor of the parent. (For any other readers, do be aware that
    DisplayColor is automatically added to your template and must be manually
    removed.)

    Can you share how you are creating stories that are not inheriting the
    parent color? (In a Feature editor? Create or Create with Details)

    -Nate

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