09 May, 2022
Create custom shortcuts with the Power Bar!
Create your own custom shortcuts for Power Bar!
Every Shortcut user can now change the default keyboard shortcuts for any command, or attach shortcuts to commands that didn’t have any default shortcuts in Power Bar to fit your preferences! Use CMD + K
on a Mac or CTRL + K
on a PC to launch the Power Bar, hover your mouse over an existing command, then Edit or Add a shortcut!
Auto-generate PR Titles with Product Area
Auto-generate PR Titles with Product Area
Our latest GitHub and GitLab integration update allows users to auto-generate PR titles with Product Area if you use Shortcut to open a PR on your Stories.
02 May, 2022
New Priority and Severity Fields in Shortcut!
Prioritize your work and manage your backlog with Priority and Severity Fields
Check out the follow-up to our Fields release with two new opinionated fields - Priority and Severity Fields! The Priority Field should be used to filter and sort Stories in order of priority. The Severity Field should be used to filter and sort Stories in order of Severity.
Field Definitions and Default Field Values for Priority and Severity
Priority and Severity Field Values
Field shows up in your Workspace on:
Filter by Fields on the:
Reminder: Fields are configured at the Workspace level, and only your Admin can update the Field Values. Field Values are set by the Admin to help your organization enforce structure and process. The fields can be enabled or disabled for the Workspace.
Read more over at our blog or learn how to get set up at our Help Center.
25 April, 2022
We heard your feedback - Labels are back in the Table View!
Faster navigation, better grouping and easier scannability with the latest Table enhancements!
New Table enhancements for faster navigation, better grouping, and easier scannability
🎯 Now, when you Group By on the Story Table Views, you can:
💪 Added functionality for more powerful Table View grouping and scannability
Start a Threaded Comment from Slack for more focused conversations
💬 Start a Threaded Comment from Slack for more focused conversations
Our latest update to the Shortcut and Slack Integration makes it possible to create a Threaded Comment in Shortcut directly from Slack. Try it out by responding to a Shortcut comment in Slack to start a Threaded Comment in Shortcut.
⚡️ New option to disable default automation for started states in the Shortcut + VCS integration
We've added a new option to disable the default VCS event handler that automatically moves a Story to the first started state when we detect any VCS activity related to the Story.
💛 Visit our new Community & Events page to stay connected with the latest happenings at Shortcut
Stay tuned with a visit to the Community & Events page to see what events we'll be at, view the recent content we've shared, and join our Discord Community to connect with a lovely network of people responsible for building great software.
New table improvements for easier viewing and editing
Check out the latest table improvements for easier viewing and editing
New: View Field changes in Story History
Easily differentiate between 0 points and unestimated points in Table View
Bulk Editor enhancement for Iterations
Shortcut Quickstart Guide
We've launched an updated Quickstart Guide to provide a better onboarding experience. Every new user will get a personalized experience that highlights the most useful parts of Shortcut for their role.
Check out the latest improvements to Shortcut University!
Fields are here to help with the categorization of work and to help organizations transition away from Projects.
Use Fields to transition away from Projects
The initial Fields release allows you to add the following Fields to Stories:
Note: Fields can be enabled by your Organization's Admin. Learn more about Fields on the blog or watch the video.
Check out the new Story Table View on the Stories Page to see work in table view and group by State, Epic, Team, or Owner. Quickly edit Stories in-line in the Story Table View to update work without having to click into individual Stories.
Added new VCS Integration functionality for more automation and easier searching
We have added support for five new VCS event handlers:
We have added new Search Operators* to help surface Stories with branches, commits, PRs and more:
*Note: These operators will only work for Stories that were created or updated since 10-10-2021
Threaded Comments on Shortcut Stories makes it easier to quickly scan, understand, and jump into the relevant parts of a conversation without the headache of reading through every comment. Reply directly to a Comment to start a Thread and keep your conversations organized and on topic.
Toggle off Add Joy
Don't feel like having fun? Not in the mood for confetti? Dislike memory games?
Head to your Settings and go to Your Profile to toggle off Add Joy.
Doing so will remove all Add Joy features from your instance of Shortcut. The setting is user-level and will persist for all future visits unless toggled back on.
Add Joy with Epic Celebrations in Shortcut
Now there's a fun way to add (more) joy in Shortcut, so you and your team can celebrate your wins and accomplishments.
Here’s what’s new:
A new Workflow endpoint has been added to the Google Sheets Integration. The Integration allows you to connect your Story data to a Google Sheet for custom analysis and advanced reporting. Once set up, any updates that happen in your Shortcut Workspace will dynamically update to a connected Google Sheet.
Edit Milestone Tables in-line
What's changed?
We've redesigned and rebuilt the Milestones table view to allow for faster performance while also making it much easier to manage your Milestones directly from the table. The new user interface is designed for a more simple, and less cluttered experience.
Milestone Management
Drag & Drop
Performance
What's coming...
Note: As mentioned before these will be rolled out to every Table view and these changes are also applied to Epic Tables for better UX and performance back in September 2022!
Bug Fixes and Improvements
Bug Fixes and Improvements
What's new:
Additional Power Bar actions have been added:
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
More Story actions and shortcuts in the Power Bar!
New Story-related actions have been added to the Power Bar that allows you to:
Now you can define your organization's Working Days, which will be reflected accordingly in your charts and metrics. Because who wants to work the weekend? By defining your Working Days, your data will be more accurate and useful, and your team can better manage and predict future work. We default Working Days to Monday through Friday, but if that isn't right for you, you can change it in settings.
Now you can choose Teams, Projects, or Story Type to color-code your Story cards. Select the View Settings toggle to color-code Story cards by Teams, Projects, or Story Type. Please note, the Stories page color-code default is by Team.
New Teams-to-Workflow relationship
We've released changes to our Data Model that provide a more intuitive, structured, and still flexible model to organize your work.
Here's what new:
Learn more by reading more about the new functionality on our blog.
Want help with transitioning to the new data model? Check out the guide.
The Burndown chart has been rebuilt to be more intuitive and useful. Here's what's new:
Edit inline in the Epic Table View
Quickly edit Epic metadata inline, or take action from the new Epic Action menu.
Now you can reorder and choose to hide or show certain Charts on the Reports page. Use Show/Hide Charts to select what you want to see and in what order. Once you’ve selected your desired order and filters you can bookmark the URL to come back to that specific view. Or share the URL with your team to make sure everyone is looking at the same view!
Now you can use the Relative Dates range to filter your data on the Reports Page. Using the Date Range selector, choose relative dates (i.e., past 3 weeks, past 2 months, or last quarter). Once your desired relative date is selected, these will persist in the URL so you can bookmark and share the link. When you use this link to view data (for the past 30 days as an example), the data will change as time progresses!
Note: Dates on your Reports page reflect your Organization's UTC offset, which can be configured via Settings (gear wheel) > Workspace Settings > General Settings.
Check out our Help Center for more info.
We have two Power Bar actions that unlock new functionality with Story Templates and Spaces.
Use CTRL+K or CMD+K to:
Create Story From Template Search for a Story Template and create a Story from a template.
Go to Space. Search for a Space using the Power Bar and navigate directly to that Space.
The Power Bar is now out of Shortcut Labs! Everyone can use the Power Bar to optimize their keyboard experience with more extensive shortcuts, actions, navigation, and search. Here’s what you can do with the Power Bar today:
With the new Productboard + Shortcut integration, product teams can connect their product planning in Productboard to all the tactical product development work happening in Shortcut.
With this integration, software teams can:
You can now filter the entire Reports page by Story Owner. Select one or more users (or none!) and all Charts will be filtered to only include Stories owned by the selected users.
Note: The Story Owner filter, like all filters on the Reports page, acts as an OR filter.
The Cumulative Flow Diagram (CFD) empowers teams to make process changes and allows for more accurate estimating and forecasting of work. We've updated the CFD with:
Here's a full summary of changes to the CFD:
This Power Bar (available in Shortcut Labs) optimizes the keyboard experience with more extensive shortcuts, actions, navigation and search. Here’s what you can do with the Power Bar today:
...and much more! Start using this Labs feature today and stay tuned as we add more functionality. You can learn more about the Power Bar in our blog post or get a full list of actions here.
We have added the following Shortcut fields to the far-most right columns of your connected Google Sheet:
Epic fields:
Milestone fields:
No action is required at this time and the update should not affect your current use of the Google Sheets Shortcut integration. To learn more about the integration read about it in thisblog post.
Filter and set start and end dates to download a snapshot of your Roadmap so you can pop it into a presentation or doc to easily communicate planned work or provide a clear look at how work is progressing.
We have added the following Shortcut fields to the far-most right columns of your connected Google Sheet:
Epic fields:
Milestone fields:
No action is required at this time and the update should not affect your current use of the Google Sheets Shortcut integration. To learn more about the integration read about it in this blog post.
Modify Workflow States in the Cycle and Lead Time
Modify Workflow States in the Cycle and Lead Time
Customize Start and End Workflow States in the Cycle and Lead Time Chart to better fit the way your team works. These tailored metrics can help you make more data-driven decisions around performance and identify areas for optimization.
Updates to Roadmap are being shipped on a rapid and ongoing basis. Here are the new features we shipped for Roadmap in April: