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Updating Multiple Projects & Automated Updating
Post posted February 22, 2010 by Sam Simmons
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Updating Multiple Projects & Automated Updating
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We're on a two-week Iteration cycle.
Every two weeks I go in and update our [Current Iteration] and [Next Iteration] Variables to the next number in each Project.
Two solution suggestions:
1. Add the ability to update more than one Project Variable at once. Because going into each Project to do this is tedious.
2. Enable automatic/scheduled updates to the Project Variables, so I can just set it on a two-week cycle.
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I agree. We currently have 16 Mingle projects which all require weekly updating of a few common variables. It would be great if these common variable could be easily updated across all projects.
Big +1 on this one.
I'm here on the forum because I was just fixing up a bunch of variables that others had failed to update on their projects recently. I'm also going away next week and I'm thinking I don't have the time to hassle someone else about doing it. We have about a dozen variables that need to be updated each fortnight.
For a variety of reasons, we do our iterations on a strict calendar fortnight across all teams (regardless of holidays, team size changes or changes in other factors). If mingle could jump to the next iteration automagically that would be great.
The challenge is that the variable is a card selection. So I don't know how Mingle could be set up to automatically choose another card every two weeks... how will it know which card to choose? The next one in sequence? The one that matches some rule (like start date).