Rally: Owner field automatically reverts to logged in user when creating with details from the Iteration Status page, despite changing to someone else

Products

• CA Agile Central SaaS (Rally)

Issue/Introduction

When creating a user story from the Iteration Status page, the owner field reverts to the logged in user when created with Details

Cause

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Login to Rally as user ABC

2. Navigate to  Track -- Iteration Status

3. Add new

4. Populate the below fields

  Work Item Type - User Story

  Name - Owner Test

  Plan Estimate - 1

  Owner - Any user other than the logged in user, for eg XYZ

5. Create with Details

Expected: The new page which opens up should have the owner as XYZ

Actual: The new page which opens up has the owner as ABC (logged in user)

Resolution

This was logged as a defect DE62163 and has been fixed and released by Engineering.