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What's new in Release 2.1

Mingle 2.1 has, in addition to many usability enhancements and bug fixes, the following new features.

New transition features

Moving cards on the card wall can now trigger transitions that you have set up for your project. This gives you all the benefits of using the card wall, without having to worry about cards getting into an inconsistent state.

Click here to read more about automated transitions in the grid view.

Use transitions to automatically drop cards from a tree, and to optionally set values during transition execution. These features give you more flexibility than ever before in designing your project workflow.

Click here to read more about transitions in Mingle.

Support for read-only and anonymous users

Recognizing the many requests we have had for these features, Mingle now supports two new kinds of user access. Read-only team members can be configured on a per-project basis and have a much more restricted set of options when it comes to editing and updating information. In addition, a project can be configured to have anonymous access which allows a project to be accessed by a user that does not have a login in Mingle.

Click here to read more about the different user roles in Mingle.

Mingle 2.1 supports Anonymous Access, but this is a premium feature that is not part of the general access release. Please contact ThoughtWorks Studios for additional details about this feature, and pricing details for the same.

New reporting features

MQL supports a new syntax for a macro to refer to the card that it is contained in. The "THIS CARD" syntax in a macro on a card allows the macro to refer to the card itself. Used in conjunction with the existing feature of card type defaults, this allows you to create template reports that come into existence the minute you create a new card of that type.

Also new in MQL is a new syntax to print the value of a Project Variable.

Click here to read more about these MQL features in 2.1.

All pivot table links have now been enabled. Using the flexibility of the new MQL filtering feature, all links now point to the exact set of cards that created them.

Click here to read more about pivot tables in Mingle.

MQL based filtering

Harness the full power of the same MQL language that you use for reporting and charting to filter your cards. In cases where the interactive filter does not suffice, or when the conditions are too complex to be expressed through the interactive filters, there is now a more concise option.

Click here to read more about filtering by MQL.

Enhanced hierarchy views

With the 2.1 release of Mingle, the hierarchy view introduces new features including the ability to sort by various columns and keep track of collapsed and expanded states of various levels of the hierarchy.

Click here to read more about the hierarchy view.

A brand new tree view

Mingle 2.1 comes with a revised tree view, which simultaneously allows you to see more of your tree, while affording better navigation with zooming and panning features. All existing features including the ability to quickly build up your tree and modify its structure, continue to work with the new layout.

Click here to read more about the tree view.

New API features

The REST API to fetch cards now allows you to fetch, in a single request, all cards in a particular project, in addition to supporting an easy paging mechanism, should you wish to use it that way. This allows extension/plugin writers to use the the API is a much more flexible way.

Click here to read about the cards API and enhancements.

Help! Everyone is read only

With the addition of read-only and anonymous users in Mingle 2.1 we have made some updates to our licenses. If you have an expired or invalid license all users will be made read-only.

Click here to read more about Mingle licensing and resolving any licensing issues.

If you aren't familiar with the Release 2.0.1 of Mingle, check out the section below.

What's new in Release 2.0.1

If you aren't familiar with the Release 2.0 of Mingle, check out the section below.

What's new in Release 2.0