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[teenguyen]

Hi TrackStudio Team! I would like to have the following features in your next TrackStudio release

1. Last note should be surfaced at the project level before description column, so we are able to quickly pull up the list of tasks/projects and see the latest action on the task.

2. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RANK WHAT TASK SHOULD GET DONE FIRST SEQUENTIALLY, AND WHEN A TASK IS COMPLETED HAVE THE SEQUENCE RIPPLE AND CHANGE TO REFELCT THE CHANGE.

3. NEED TWO CUSTOM DATE FIELDS (DATE THE TASK WAS PUT IN
PROCESS) AND THEN AN ESTIMATE DROP DOWN BOX THAT SHOULD SHOW (5HRS, 24 HRS, 48 HRS, 72 HRS--These values are defined by user) AND THEN THE ACTUAL COMPLETION DATE AND TIME

4. Filter need to be able to sort by multiple columns (current version is only sort by a single column)

5. Tasks should be sorted in numerical order (with the task number)

I have 2 additional questions:

a. I cannot delete a filter if someone is using it. (To overcome this problem I have to email to all users and ask them don't use the filter that I want to delete, then I am able to delete it- this is quite cumbersome)

b. Why is all my task_id in database an alphanumeric (i.e.: 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0) rather than 1,2,3,4.... (My platform is Sun Solaris, Oracle 8, iPlanet 6.0). How can I make my task_id 1,2,3,4 rather than alphanumeric (I saw your preload database task_id is 1 for project and 2 for Test, and as soon as I add my own task, this task_id start as 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0, not 3)?

3. I knew in your previous email that your next release will be end of this month, any specific date?

Thanks very much

[admin]

Hi TrackStudio Team! I would like to have the following features in your next TrackStudio release

1. Last note should be surfaced at the project level before description column, so we are able to quickly pull up the list of tasks/projects and see the latest action on the task.

Something like this (message filter) will be available in 2.7

2. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RANK WHAT TASK SHOULD GET DONE FIRST SEQUENTIALLY, AND WHEN A TASK IS COMPLETED HAVE THE SEQUENCE RIPPLE AND CHANGE TO REFELCT THE CHANGE.

You can change task priority and list tasks order by priority.

3. NEED TWO CUSTOM DATE FIELDS (DATE THE TASK WAS PUT IN
PROCESS) AND THEN AN ESTIMATE DROP DOWN BOX THAT SHOULD SHOW (5HRS, 24 HRS, 48 HRS, 72 HRS--These values are defined by user) AND THEN THE ACTUAL COMPLETION DATE AND TIME

You can add custom fields for your tasks. Or you need something different ?

4. Filter need to be able to sort by multiple columns (current version is only sort by a single column)

Yes, this is still limitation.

5. Tasks should be sorted in numerical order (with the task number)

I have 2 additional questions:

a. I cannot delete a filter if someone is using it. (To overcome this problem I have to email to all users and ask them don't use the filter that I want to delete, then I am able to delete it- this is quite cumbersome)

OK, I understand.

b. Why is all my task_id in database an alphanumeric (i.e.: 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0) rather than 1,2,3,4.... (My platform is Sun Solaris, Oracle 8, iPlanet 6.0). How can I make my task_id 1,2,3,4 rather than alphanumeric (I saw your preload database task_id is 1 for project and 2 for Test, and as soon as I add my own task, this task_id start as 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0, not 3)?

We has no bug id such as 125, or PRJ-125, or 1.2.5.4 because first is
insecure (anybody can know how many bugs on server), second relate to
project (its very easy to create/delete project and this destroy id)
and third works bad when we move subproject from one project to
another.

This is old issue, but we has no good solution yet and still use GUID, you can't change it. GUID also very useful if you need database replication.

3. I knew in your previous email that your next release will be end of this month, any specific date?

I think, June 15-20. I can send you link to current TrackStudio 2.7 EAP2 build for early evaluation.

[teenguyen]

Hi TrackStudio Team! I would like to have the following features in your next TrackStudio release

1. Last note should be surfaced at the project level before description column, so we are able to quickly pull up the list of tasks/projects and see the latest action on the task.

Something like this (message filter) will be available in 2.7
Thanks.

2. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RANK WHAT TASK SHOULD GET DONE FIRST SEQUENTIALLY, AND WHEN A TASK IS COMPLETED HAVE THE SEQUENCE RIPPLE AND CHANGE TO REFELCT THE CHANGE.

You can change task priority and list tasks order by priority.

This won't work since I have 5 tasks with high priority and I don't know
which one of these 5 should I do first. If I can rank them then I know which one should I do first.

3. NEED TWO CUSTOM DATE FIELDS (DATE THE TASK WAS PUT IN
PROCESS) AND THEN AN ESTIMATE DROP DOWN BOX THAT SHOULD SHOW (5HRS, 24 HRS, 48 HRS, 72 HRS--These values are defined by user) AND THEN THE ACTUAL COMPLETION DATE AND TIME

You can add custom fields for your tasks. Or you need something different ?

4. Filter need to be able to sort by multiple columns (current version is only sort by a single column)

Yes, this is still limitation.

Any ideas when this features implement?

5. Tasks should be sorted in numerical order (with the task number)
Can this be done?


I have 2 additional questions:

a. I cannot delete a filter if someone is using it. (To overcome this problem I have to email to all users and ask them don't use the filter that I want to delete, then I am able to delete it- this is quite cumbersome)

OK, I understand.

b. Why is all my task_id in database an alphanumeric (i.e.: 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0) rather than 1,2,3,4.... (My platform is Sun Solaris, Oracle 8, iPlanet 6.0). How can I make my task_id 1,2,3,4 rather than alphanumeric (I saw your preload database task_id is 1 for project and 2 for Test, and as soon as I add my own task, this task_id start as 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0, not 3)?

We has no bug id such as 125, or PRJ-125, or 1.2.5.4 because first is
insecure (anybody can know how many bugs on server), second relate to
project (its very easy to create/delete project and this destroy id)
and third works bad when we move subproject from one project to
another.

This is old issue, but we has no good solution yet and still use GUID, you can't change it. GUID also very useful if you need database replication.

3. I knew in your previous email that your next release will be end of this month, any specific date?

I think, June 15-20. I can send you link to current TrackStudio 2.7 EAP2 build for early evaluation.

Thanks for your time to answer my questions

[admin]

This won't work since I have 5 tasks with high priority and I don't know
which one of these 5 should I do first. If I can rank them then I know which one should I do first.

How do you see this feature implementation (I am about user interface viewpoint) ?

4. Filter need to be able to sort by multiple columns (current version is only sort by a single column)
...
Any ideas when this features implement?

I think that this feature can be implemented in TrackStudio 3.0 (Sept-Nov).

[teenguyen]

This won't work since I have 5 tasks with high priority and I don't know
which one of these 5 should I do first. If I can rank them then I know which one should I do first.

How do you see this feature implementation (I am about user interface viewpoint) ?
www.NextFlix.com has this feature when you prioritize your movies. I am going to send a screen shot for you to view as an example.

4. Filter need to be able to sort by multiple columns (current version is only sort by a single column)
...
Any ideas when this features implement?

I think that this feature can be implemented in TrackStudio 3.0 (Sept-Nov).

[admin]

How do you see this feature implementation (I am about user interface viewpoint) ?
www.NextFlix.com has this feature when you prioritize your movies. I am going to send a screen shot for you to view as an example.

Thank you. BTW, can you hit me with some issue tracking software that has this feature. I think that this should be something like bulk edit ability in subtasks view.

[teenguyen]

How do you see this feature implementation (I am about user interface viewpoint) ?
www.NextFlix.com has this feature when you prioritize your movies. I am going to send a screen shot for you to view as an example.

Thank you. BTW, can you hit me with some issue tracking software that has this feature. I think that this should be something like bulk edit ability in subtasks view.

I don't quite understand what you mean, can you explain more ( did you mean that you have this features for the current version or next version or something else?)

Ah! you forgot to answer one question above-- Can we sort tasks sequentially by task ID-If yes, how?

Did you see the screen shot that I send to you?

[admin]

I don't quite understand what you mean, can you explain more ( did you mean that you have this features for the current version or next version or something else?)

I just mean that this feature can be implemented like another feature in 2.7 I think that we implement this in 3.0 or 3.1 (because we plan to implement similar, but more complicated feature and its require some redesign)

Ah! you forgot to answer one question above-- Can we sort tasks sequentially by task ID-If yes, how?

No, you can't because task ID random and makes no sense. But you can try add custom field ID and order tasks by your custom field.

Did you see the screen shot that I send to you?

Yes, thank you. I understand what you mean.

[admin]

Hi TrackStudio Team! I would like to have the following features in your next TrackStudio release

I have good news about next TrackStudio release (not scheduled yet).

2. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO RANK WHAT TASK SHOULD GET DONE FIRST SEQUENTIALLY, AND WHEN A TASK IS COMPLETED HAVE THE SEQUENCE RIPPLE AND CHANGE TO REFELCT THE CHANGE.

This is not implemented yet, but planned for next release.

4. Filter need to be able to sort by multiple columns (current version is only sort by a single column)

Already implemented in 2.8-development.

5. Tasks should be sorted in numerical order (with the task number)

Already implemented in 2.8-development.

I have 2 additional questions:

a. I cannot delete a filter if someone is using it. (To overcome this problem I have to email to all users and ask them don't use the filter that I want to delete, then I am able to delete it- this is quite cumbersome)

Already fixed in 2.8-development

b. Why is all my task_id in database an alphanumeric (i.e.: 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0) rather than 1,2,3,4.... (My platform is Sun Solaris, Oracle 8, iPlanet 6.0). How can I make my task_id 1,2,3,4 rather than alphanumeric (I saw your preload database task_id is 1 for project and 2 for Test, and as soon as I add my own task, this task_id start as 0c6d3c54f48fc26800f497af0c3601c0, not 3)?

Numeric task id already implemented in 2.8-dev.