Release screen suggestions

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I’ve run across a few things that I think would be helpful when managing releases.

  • For a given project, have the ability the see a list of all releases that have been created. Maybe this could be the default tab on the project home page instead of Recent Deployments? Clicking on a release would take you to the details screen for this release. This came about since it wasn’t overly clear how to perform a new deployment into a different environment. I have to click my “Development” release box to take me to the page where I can click the Deploy button.
  • It would also be nice to have friendly formatted URLs to take us directly to a release page, so I could tell users to go to http://my-octopus-portal/project name/releases/release name, instead of http://my-octopus-portal/Releases/Show/11?deploymentId=23
  • It would be nice if the release screen instead got a little de-cluttered. Maybe put Packages and Variables in accordions or tabs? Just something to hide the stuff that doesn’t really get looked at, but adds to visual clutter. I would also think it would be nice to see the Release Notes at the top, and then see the Deployments after that.

Thanks for an awesome product Paul!

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Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the suggestions!

  1. On a project, you can click the “recent deployments” tab, and at the bottom is a link - “View complete history”. That will take you to a list of all releases, as well as where they were deployed. Does that help, or would a second screen (with just releases) be better?
  2. Great suggestion
  3. I agree, I’ll add those to the backlog

Paul

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Ahhh, I see what you’re saying for the complete history. That gives a nice summary. I’ve set up seven environments though, so it gets a little busy a little fast, so that may need to be tweaked a bit from a layout perspective, but that’s pretty minor.

I wonder if the complete history could use a friendly url too…? :slight_smile: