The Rally Dashboard allows you to quickly update the fields of many bugs in one convenient editor. For instance, the Rally Dashboard would be the appropriate editor for a project lead that wanted to move a set of twenty tasks from one iteration to another. The Rally Dashboard is excellent for editing many tasks at once but is not intended as a replacement for the standard task editor, which is more appropriate for editing one task at a time.
To open the Rally Dashboard from the context menu on a Rally query in the Task List or from the main toolbar. Below is a screenshot of the Rally Dashboard populated with several tasks.
The Rally Dashboard allows you to quickly edit several tasks and submit the changes with a single button. The main table on the dashboard shows all of your Rally tasks. Click on a field in the dashboard table and the field will become editable (for supported fields). Once a field has been edited it will be decorated until the changes are submitted. To submit your changes use the Submit button in the upper-right of the dashboard.
During the course of using the dashboard to edit tasks users occasionally find the need to drill down on a particular task. To open a particular task in a separate Task Editor double click on its row in the dashboard. If you edit the task using the Task Editor be sure to click the Refresh button to propagate changes back to the dashboard.
Note: The Refresh button allows you to update the dashboard table, ensuring the table has the latest task information.
Often viewing all of your Rally tasks is beyond the scope of a given update. Therefore, the Rally Dashboard provides several filtering facilities to focus only on the relevant tasks. If you have multiple Rally repositories or queries, your can narrow down the tasks that are displayed by selecting the repository and query to show. If no query fits your current task you can easily create a new query by clicking the New Query button next to these filters. Additionally there is a Filter Completed Tasks button on the upper-right of the dashboard (on by default) which allows you to filter tasks that are already complete.