Add Custom Tabs

The Custom Tab tool allows you to add a tab to your workspace that shows content from an external url. This tool provides easy access to whatever resources you and your team use outside of Assembla such as forums, company intranets, development resources, or other external systems.

Watch the video below to learn how to add and configure this new tool. 

Launch a Portfolio with Batch Invitations:

Those of you who use Assembla Portfolio can now invite mutliple users at once to get projects up and running faster. Enter multiple email addresses and/or existing Assembla usernames separated by commas to add an entire team within seconds. 

Additional upgrades to the Portfolio Users tab include:

• Promote/demote portfolio access – Manager, Core (Member), and Watcher – with up/down arrows in the Role column of the main Users tab. 
• Remove multiple users from your portfolio without having to visit multiple pages. 
• If a user is invited at the project space level to a project within your portfolio, he or she will automatically get an invite to join your portfolio and be added with the corresponding role for the space(s) they are working on.

Watch the video below to see how easy it is to manage team members across multiple projects. If you currently do not use Assembla Portfolio, learn more at http://portfolio.assembla.com. Current workspace users can upgrade and try portfolio for free for 30 days. 

Ticket Sidebar Updates

There are two new options available in the search/filter sidebar reporting:

Estimates of tasks and subtasks are pre-calculated, and available in reports.  In the “Fields to Show” section, you can now select “Sum of Child Estimates” and “Sum of Child Work Remaining” to show as columns in the Ticket List view. These columns will show the total estimates and work remaining for the task and any child tickets related to this tasks/story. The sum reflects either hours or points, depending upon what metric you have defined in the settings of the ticket tool. 

- If you use custom fields with text boxes, you can now search/filter tickets using matches that include or do not include the desired keyword(s) instead of only “is” or “is not” options.

Text Markup Toolbar in More Places

We have added a markup toolbar on StandUp reports, messages, and code comments, so that it will be easier to add bold, italic, and headline effects.

Dedicated servers with better reliability, failover, and speed:

Assembla.com is now running on shiny new dedicated servers. The new servers give us advantages in reliability, failover, and speed (2.5 times faster) compared with our previous configuration in a cloud datacenter. Read more here. 

Update: Our users have taken advantage of the faster servers to do more, and now speed appears to be limited because we have saturated our 100Mbit network connection.  We will switch to a 1Gbit connection later today.