{"id":784,"date":"2014-03-11T15:28:51","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T22:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Polarion-Blog\/Polarion-2014-What-39-s-New-and-Noteworthy\/ba-p\/380831"},"modified":"2026-03-26T05:30:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T09:30:56","slug":"polarion-2014-whats-new-and-noteworthy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/polarion\/polarion-2014-whats-new-and-noteworthy\/","title":{"rendered":"Polarion 2014 – What's New and Noteworthy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Once again it’s my pleasure to announce the release of a new major version of our products: Polarion version 2014<\/STRONG>, and to spotlight the newest features our talented R&D team has added to today’s best Requirements Management, Test Management, and Application Lifecycle Management solution. <\/p>\n

So here are the new and noteworthy changes\/features added to Polarion 2014 since Polarion 2013 SR3<\/A><\/STRONG>. (A list of all the issues addressed in this release is provided in the Resolved Work Items file<\/A>.)
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Clustering<\/STRONG><\/H2>
\nNew support for running Polarion on multiple physical and\/or virtual machines, sharing a single repository on clustered instances, or running multiple Polarion instances each with its own repository, or a combination of these topographies. Supported use cases include active\/active failover, and distributed processing to utilize hardware resources efficiently based on user demand.
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 \"\"<\/A>A new PDF manual, Polarion Enterprise Setup Guide<\/A>, is available to help you to set up the clustering solution in your environment.<\/P><\/p>\n

Easy Planning<\/H2>
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New top-level business object Plan<\/EM> (Navigation > Plans) facilitates planning of releases and iterations within releases. Create any hierarchy of Plans, populated with pre-estimated Work Items to be processed within the Plan’s time frame. Simple drag-drop operation to populate a Plan with Work Items. Robust live reporting with burn-up\/burn-down charting clearly shows Plan progress in several ways, including comparison against “ideal” progress in terms of the total estimated work, the team’s total capacity, and the time available. New example Plans are included in demo projects.<\/P>
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\"planning\"<\/A><\/P>
\nTo activate the new Easy Planning feature in yourexisting projects:
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  1. Enter project Administration.<\/LI>
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  2. In Navigation, expand Plans<\/EM>, and select Plan Templates<\/EM>.<\/LI>
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  3. Click on button Set Up Planning…<\/EM><\/LI>
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    Requirements Interchange<\/STRONG><\/H2>
    \n<\/STRONG>Native support for ReqIF round-trip without additional plugins or integrations. Import and re-import RIF and ReqIF documents, export Polarion LiveDoc documents as ReqIF or RIF documents, and re-import external changes to exported data.<\/p>\n

    Import ReqIF Document<\/STRONG>
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    \"reqif-import\"<\/A><\/P>
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    Export Live Document as ReqIF <\/STRONG>
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    \"reqif-export\"<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n

    LiveDoc Custom Fields<\/STRONG><\/H2>
    \nCreate custom metadata for Polarion Documents on a per-Document basis: Owner, Target Version, for example.
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    \"doc-fields-view\"<\/A><\/P>
    \nYou can define the custom fields easily in the project Administration.
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    \"doc-fields-admin\"<\/A><\/P>
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    Significant Improvements and Fixes<\/H2>
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    Configure custom PDF headers and footers per Document during export.<\/H3>
    \nSave and reuse the custom configuration; optionally restore the default with a single click. Reference Document custom fields both from PDF and Microsoft Word\u00ae <\/SUP>header and footer.
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    \"pdf\"<\/A><\/P><\/p>\n

    POST method on the {parameter-form}<\/H3>
    \nHandle a large set of parameters in wiki report pages by using the POST “method” on the {parameter-form}.
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     Parameter editors and their associated buttons need to be surrounded by the {parameter-form}<\/TT> macro.<\/PRE>
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