I receive timeouts errors in the Traceability - Forge limitation

Use case

There is a red error popping up with a ‘Time out’ error Remote invocation timed out after 25 seconds

• When using the Search,

• When using the Traceability Matrix,

• When using the Excel Export,

• … can happen in other parts of the app as well.

Explanations

As part of our migration from Connect to Forge, we are now bound by Atlassian for many aspects, including Forge invocation limits: https://developer.atlassian.com/platform/forge/limits-invocation/ .

When performing a search, or using the Traceability, we use Forge invocations to recover information from Atlassian such as requirement keys, properties etc. Those invocations have a limit of 25 seconds.

The request can be too long and trigger a timeout for different reasons:

• There are too many requirements in the response

• When you try and display many Jira issues, with many dependencies and informations in the Traceability.

• Because we make requests to Jira’s API, if there are many Jira issues, and they have a lot of custom fields the response can take longer.

Possible solutions

1. Asynchronous loading

One option for us would be to work on the improvement of requests made to Jira to make them lighter. We could also work on asynchronous loading, but this requires a lot of work, and is very long-term.

2. Use our own app who doesn’t suffer from Atlassian limitations

We’re releasing the standalone app, which will mirror the app in Confluence and Jira, only faster and with our own UX.

⚠️ Before you continue, please make sure you know where your Confluence instance is located (See Data residency). Depending on your location US, or EU, the app’s URL is different.

Create an account

• Go to app.requirementyogi.com (EU), or app.us.requirementyogi.com (US).

• Create an account.

• You will receive an email to verify your account.

Link your account to your Atlassian instance

• In app.requirementyogi.com (EU), or app.us.requirementyogi.com (US).

• Navigate to Settings > Linked accounts > Click the Link button.

• You will be redirected to the Atlassian authorization prompt. You will be asked to log in to your Atlassian account if you haven’t already.

• Choose the Atlassian site where your requirements are defined.

  • Make sure you agree with the requested permissions.

• Click the Accept button.

• You can repeat the link process to authorize access for multiple Atlassian sites

Quick notes on permissions

• Make sure you’ve read our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

• Please note that permissions of our app are checked against the permissions of your linked Atlassian account. So ensure the linked Atlassian account has the appropriate permissions for your use cases.

Access your requirements in our standalone app

• Go to app.requirementyogi.com (EU), or app.us.requirementyogi.com (US) and login.

• You will land on a screen to select your instance and space. Then you’ll be able to access the Traceability:

  

Future improvements

For now the Traceability matrix is the only tab available. We are working on implementing all other space tabs available in Confluence into the Standalone as well (Search, Baselines, etc.), while also improving the UX.

Please reach out on the support if you have feedback and integration suggestions.

FAQ and Gotchas

Is the data stored in Confluence our RY servers ?

• Both.

• Requirements are stored in Confluence pages with requirement IDs, the content of properties and dependencies.

• We also store that information in our databases (requirement IDs, properties and dependencies), it allows us to recover information for the Traceability for example.

  In addition to that, Requirement Yogi stores External Properties, saved matrices, Baselines, requirement types and information related to your requirements directly.

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