Currently users are only able to see that there is an attachment by hovering over an item and seeing the paperclip icon. I only found this out today when someone told me; I had never even seen it before. I would like a better visual indication that there are attachments to a backlog item so that if I forget to put "see attached" in the story (which is just noise) any workflows or diagrams or emails or yadda will not be completely lost and a story or MMF can be worked on to it's full potential and with all pertinent information involved. Maybe an icon (a better one) or highlight the Attachments link at the top of the item.
by: Cat S. | over a year ago | Ideas Application
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You can add this as a column in the view. Feature already exists.
When you are on the task/story board the visibility of the fact that an attachment exists is very low-key. The highlighted "paper clip" is small and often goes unnoticed, causing us to go through the motions of putting "see attached" in bold in the story, which is noise.
I think Kevin's proposal is not bad for single story, but often I want to put something that is cross-stories, even cross-feature groups (e.g. general documentation, architectural documentation etc), then I want to put it either in goal section or as an attachment to project - in that case there is no option that other users will find it easily. It's good when we have a special place (e.g. wiki like) for putting general documentation, with a shortcut from personal dashboard, or even with section - latest documents - on dashboard ... I think I should put it as separate idea
Ok I have an updated idea for this. What about an icon change if there is an attachment? This way a user wouldn't even have to open it to see that something is attached; they could see it right in their grid.
You can already see the icon in a grid by customizing your grid and displaying the 'Additional Details' column as Kevin suggests. It does take up a little bit of horizontal space, but all three types of additional information (attachments, links and discussion notes) are included in that column. If used prominently in your organization, you could choose to turn that column on by default in one or more grid views. Please give it a try whether or not you do it by default and come back and report how or if that works for you.
I still like the suggestion of highlighting the "Attachments" link at the top of the item to indicate there is something there.
The Detail Views have been redesigned to show the number of attachments for a particular asset in the relationship summary bar, located at the top of the Details View. As Mark pointed out, the presence of attachments is also indicated in the asset hovers.
Further details about the Spring 2011 release can be found in the release notes:
http://community.versionone.com/Release%20Notes/ReleaseNotes2011Spring.aspx