ConnectALL interacts with Digital.ai Agility via its ReST API.

Supported Authentication

HTTP Basic

Supported Entity Types

Request

Story

Defect

Issue

Task

 Test

 Portfolio Item

Supported Functionalities

Sync Fields

 Sync Comments

Sync Attachments

Sync Issue Linking

Attachments Feature

Create

Update

 Delete

Dynamic Linking

ConnectALL's Dynamic Linking option allows a user to link two existing records, instead of creating a duplicate, by specifying the destination record ID in a custom field. Refer to Dynamic Record Linking feature for more information. ConnectALL's Digital.ai Agility adapter is able to perform the dynamic linking based on a readable ID as well as with Digital.ai Agility's internal record ID. 

Let's say you are synchronizing Digital.ai Agility Backlog Items to Jira stories via ConnectALL and you would like to dynamically link a Digital.ai Agility record "B-01234 (Story:56789)" to a Jira record "VO-123". For this, you can enter "Story:56789" in a custom field like "CA_External_ID" in Jira and map it to the "ID" field in Digital.ai Agility as shown below. 

Alternatively, you could enter the readable id "B-01234" in the "CA_Enternal_ID" field and map it to the "Number" field in Digital.ai Agility for performing the Dynamic linking. 

Digital.ai Agility Task (Parent-Child Linking)

The Task type in Digital.ai Agility cannot be created directly. For each created task, a corresponding parent record is mandatory. Therefore, when a task automation is configured in ConnectALL, the corresponding parent automation (either Story/Defect/Issue) has to be configured for the sync to work. Any other special field mapping is not required.

Digital.ai Agility Test Sync (Parent-Child Linking)

The test asset in Digital.ai Agility cannot be created directly. For every test created, a corresponding parent record is mandatory. Therefore, when a test automation is configured in ConnectALL, the Parent of the test needs to be identified. There are a couple of ways to define the Parent for the Test to be created in Digital.ai Agility. 

Option 1: Map the Test.Parent field to a custom field in the destination application and enter the Digital.ai Agility OID of the record that the given test is to be associated with.

Option 2: When synchronizing Tests with a destination application that has the similar parent-child structure like Jira Subtasks, then creating an Automation Link to synchronize the Parent Type like Jira stories - Digital.ai Agility stories will enable ConnectALL to identify the Parent based on the relationships in the destination application. 

Note: A step by step usecase guide for synchronizing Digital.ai Agility Test to ALM Testcases using Option 1 is documented in this How to article. 

Digital.ai Agility Request Sync (Issue Linking)

The entity type "Request" in Digital.ai Agility can have an infinite number of Stories/Defects/Issues linked to it. Therefore, for it to work and create an automation in ConnectALL, the "Request" entity type in Digital.ai Agility and another automation for the corresponding Story/Defect/Issue in another platform must be there for linking to occur.

Issue Linking

When creating a new Story/Defect/Issue by linking it to a "Request", ConnectALL can automatically detect the newly created record from Digital.ai Agility and sync it to the corresponding application and create links. 

Record Sync

When we try to assign an existing Story/Defect/Issue by linking it to a "Request", then for ConnectALL to read the modified record from Digital.ai Agility it is mandatory to edit the linked Story/Defect/Issue in Digital.ai Agility. Due to the limitation in the ReST API, this modification is required.

Similarly, when the user tries to add attachments/comments, it is mandatory to edit the corresponding record (any field) in order for ConnectALL to detect the updated changes.

Digital.ai AgilityPortfolioItem Sync

In Digital.ai Agility we can create a PortfolioItem as a separate entity or even we can create a Parent-Child hierarchy. 

For example: A PortfolioItem of category Initiative can be created as a child under another PortfolioItem of category Feature and vice versa as listed below.

PortfolioItem Category

• All PortfolioItem Category is supported by ConnectALL
• Parent-Child hierarchy is only for PortfolioItem (i.e. both Parent and Child will be created as a Digital.ai Agility PortfolioItem)

1. Similar to other entities, to sync only a PortfolioItem, create an automation by choosing the entity, and the category can be selected under field configuration.
2. To create the parent-child hierarchy as listed above, map the field "Parent" in the field configuration and either pass the value to this field by mapping it to _CONSTANT, or map it with any appropriate field on the other application so that value is passed to this "Parent" field dynamically. In this way, the PortfolioItem item being created will be created under the specified Parent as a child record (as displayed above).
3. In the below example, all the PortfolioItems getting created will be created under the Parent PortfolioItem of Id Epic:11165

Jira-Digital.ai Agility URL Link

To sync the Jira URL as a link in Digital.ai Agility, map the _URL field from Jira fields to the Hyperlink field from Digital.ai Agility as follows. This will create an URL link in Digital.ai Agility.

Similarly, to sync the Digital.ai Agility URL to the destination application, map the _URL field from Digital.ai Agility fields to any custom text field on the destination application. In the below example, the _URL field of Digital.ai Agility is mapped with a custom field on Jira. 

This is how Digital.ai Agility URL is synced in Jira. (For security reasons, the actual test URL is obscured.)

Digital.ai Agility Link Types

The following table provides the list of ConnectALL supported Digital.ai Agility Link Types for each entity.

Note

Whenever we try to sync to a Digital.ai Agility field from a multi-select field of another application, then the last updated value will be selected and be updated in the drop down.

For example: If a multi-select Jira Version field is mapped with the Digital.ai Agility Version drop down field, then the last added value in Jira Version will be chosen in the Digital.ai Agility drop down.

Digital.ai Agility Team Rooms

In Digital.ai Agility, when an entity is created/mapped as part of the Team Room, then to change the Status of the entity, ConnectALL takes care of updating the correct team status by the usual Status field value mapping. When doing the value mapping of a specific Status as shown below, it displays multiple supported Status value id as shown below. No external configuration is required for ConnectALL to handle the team status.

Digital.ai Agility Expression(s)/Comments

Digital.ai Agility Expression(s) can be synced to the destination application as Comments and vice-versa. Map the "Comment" field of Digital.ai Agility as shown in the screenshot below to sync the Expression(s)/Comments.

Comments Sync

ConnectALL can sync expressions/comments only against the first conversation/expression created in Digital.ai Agility or synced into it.

Time Difference Configuration

To know how to calculate the time difference, and configure it in the ConnectALL UI,  read the topic Time Difference Configuration.

Automatic User Value Mapping

ConnectALL supports Automatic user value mapping for ServiceNow.  Below is a screenshot that illustrates this; where

id=User Name

name=Summary/Title

email=Email

For more information on Automatic User Value Mapping and to find out how it works, click here.