Fear the Bug Video Podcast (HD)

In this video we cover some of the things you would want to be doing in a sprint planning session. For Sprint Planning meetings, you would want to have your Product Owner and the Scrum team talk about the items that would be included in the upcoming sprint, setting up acceptance criteria, estimating items, and moving items into an upcoming sprint

Learn about creating custom fields to store any kind of information you need in your OnTime database. Designing templates to view and edit items, and create workflows to determine what process items go through in order to be completed.

This video covers the options for 'Edit using Workflow Template' and 'Edit using Project Template'. The default edit behavior is to use 'Edit Using Workflow Template which will launch the field template designated for the particular workflow step. The 'Edit using Project Template, will allow you to use the same template when editing items, regardless of the items current workflow step. This 'Edit using Project Template' option is tied to the standard 'edit' privilege in Security Roles.

In this video we cover managing your OnTime Users and Customers. From adding users and customer contacts, setting defaults for new users, and what kind of access each would have when logging into OnTime or to your OnTime Customer Portal.

This is the first video in a 4 part series for an in depth look at OnTime. In This video, we cover some common features of OnTime including adding projects, sending emails, adding attachments, editing items, working in the planning board, and organizing items in your OnTime Database

In this video we cover using the 'Organize' pane, applying filters, searches, grouping, and finding items using keyboard shortcuts. We also cover saving views so that using one click you can revert back to a familiar view with any filters, or settings automatically configured.

This podcast covers using OnTime for Scrum Development. We discuss creating different priority levels, using multi-edit and the planning board to prioritize items and plan for sprints. For more information on Scrum in OnTime or to sign up for our free scrum class go to axosoft.com/training

In this podcast we discuss filtering in OnTime using the Organize pane, Quick Filters, and Managing Filters. OnTime has a powerful filtering feature that allows for multiple conditions, grouping, and using SQL filter strings

This podcast covers adding alerts to projects using the 'change field value' alerts and how to monitor specific fields. In this video we also discuss requirements for alerts including the email queue and alerts service.

This podcast covers configuring OnTime to send emails, connect with your SMTP server, and how to configure Notifications for projects using the 'Wiki' tab.

This Podcast covers adding email accounts in OnTime that can connect using POP3 or IMAP, to create new items in OnTime, or update existing items in your database. Your account should be able to pull in emails automatically if you are an OnTime Now hosted customer, but if you host your own database, you would need to make sure to install the OnTime services to allow automatic upload of emails.

This video show how to quickly get started using OnTime with creating projects, adding items, working in the planning board, and adding users. Go to Axosoft.com today to sign up for a free 30 day, 10 user hosted trial, and see why OnTime is the choice of thousands of Dev Teams. Contact sales@axosoft.com or give us a call at 800-653-0024 for any questions.

This podcast covers the all new main grid included with OnTime v11. The grid allows you to quickly group items by right clicking on the column header as well as offering up to 3 levels of sorting. Clicking on the column header or sort option in the header bar will quickly reverse the sort order from ascending to descending. You can also limit the number of items displayed by clicking the number in the lower right corner.

This Podcast covers the Global Settings Locator which is a great tool that helps you quickly find out what projects are using certain workflows and field templates. It also helps you track down any of your notification rules or your alerts that are set up for your users or customers. From the Global Settings Locator you can even edit projects to use different workflows or field templates or delete or modify alerts without needing to back out or leave the global settings locator

This week in Fear the Bug, we cover the different sections of reports, and how to add sections in the C# script to point to different sections, as well as set and find control names for controls in the designer. We use as an example printing HTML to a rich text box, grabbing information from a built-in report, and copying and pasting script, and updating section and control names for the new report.

This podcast covers formatting if Date fields using the OnTime Report Designer. Also covered is accessing datetime fields using script and using standard C# functions.

This podcast covers how to access certain custom fields in reports in OnTime. The built in Stored Procedures for Defects, Features, Tasks, Incidents, and User Dashboard reports include all of the custom fields along with the Item, and the fields stored along with the Customer and Customer Contact for items. Also in the video is a quick way to print out a report which will give you the names of all of the Custom fields in the database for quick reference when creating reports

This Podcast covers the different features and benefits of Comments Fields within OnTime. Comments are fields that allow you to store large amounts of plain text along with items. They have built in security features where users or customers would be able to delete their own comments, but you could also give the rights to users to delete other users comments to work as moderators.

In this episode, we discuss the differences and common usage of the Workflow and the Status field. Workflow is a very powerful feature of OnTime that allows you to establish your processes set in place for each project, item type, and set up security and different available fields, whereas Status is fairly basic field that allows you to get a quick description of where an item is in the development process.

In this podcast, we cover advanced topics with copying and moving, like copying data included in custom fields as well as copying information in large text fields across item types. Any data that is stored in one of the large text fields that are unique to one item type, like replication procedures, will be concatenated into the Notes field when copied or moved to an item type without the field.

This Podcast covers duplicating items and copying and moving items to a different item type. Copying will create a different item type while creating a link back to the original item in the related items tab, and moving items will delete the original item from the database and create a new item. If you would want to make sure that all of the original information is maintained in the database, you could copy the item and then close or archive the original as opposed to moving the item.

The OnTime Eclipse Plugin brings your developers access to your OnTime database right into their Eclipse IDE. Because Eclipse is cross platform, it is a great solution for your developers regardless if they use Windows, Mac, or a Linux environment. This video covers setting up the plugin, and connecting to your OnTime Database, which is very simple for OnTime Now hosted customers as all that is needed is the link to your OnTime Website, and covers a few additional hints for connecting to your database if it is installed on your local environment.

OnTime supports VS 2005, 2008, and 2010 and allows you to view, add, and edit all of the items in your OnTime database all from a dockable window within Visual Studio. The Visual Studio Plug-in connects to your OnTime database in the same manner as the OnTime Windows client, supports source control management, and respects all security and workflow configurations.

This video discusses saving images along with items in OnTime, including pasting images directly from the clipboard. We also discuss adding images to large text fields and sending images in the body of email messages.

Incidents in OnTime have a special field for Escalation Level to use for Help Desk or Customer Support. Escalation levels are similar to other fields except they can be set to have different options on a per project basis, and they can be made so that they can only be promoted to the next level as opposed to skipping levels.

This Podcast covers using the Customers Tab to filter for items, emails, and worklogs. We also discuss adding, editing, and moving customers directly from the tab as well as functionality for grouping using custom Picklist fields for customers and customer contacts.

In this podcast we cover using Stored Procedures to build pick lists in OnTime. This is only an option for users where OnTime is installed in your environment as it requires direct modification to the database. Because this is relying upon values returned form a query it has the ability to hinder performance and you would want to ensue that the stored procedure does not create additional lag to return the values for the pick list

This podcast addresses configuring the different color coding options available in OnTime. Colors can be associated along with Priority, Status, Severity, and different Workflow Steps and then applied on the OnTime Main Grid or to your cards in the planning board.

In this video we discuss exporting and reporting Large Text Fields as HTML or plain text. We also cover some other advanced options for Large Text Fields in System Options.

This week's Fear the Bug covers in depth Large Text Fields within OnTime. Large Text Fields allow you to format text using a simple HTML editor, supporting lists, images, tables, links, bullets, and canned responses. Large Text fields can be added to Field Templates, but can also be added/removed from the Details pane at the bottom of the screen by going to Tools/System Options/Details Tab Settings.

This podcast covers registering, logging in, and using the OnTime Customer Portal. You can link any customers that you would like to use your personal Customer Portal to explain typical usage of the portal including adding items, adding attachments, and notification emails.

This Video covers function and connecting using the Remote Server including finding your Security Token an URL from the Hosted Dashboard.

This Podcast covers managing the different Item Types and Tabs available in OnTime. Depending if you create a standard or simplified database you may have different item types available to you by default but either database can be completely customized to enable support for up to 4 different types of items. This Podcast also covers show/hiding different tabs, including the emails, audit trails, and worklogs tab for the main grid.

This video walks through signing up for an OnTime Now hosted trial. This is a 30 day, 10-user trial of OnTime Now which hosts your OnTime database at one of our Datacenters located around the world. For more information about OnTime or to add extra users for this trial period please contact Sales@axosoft.com or give us a call at 800-653-0024.

This podcast covers installation and initial setup of the RocketSVN server. RocketSVN server is the first tool that allows you to host a subversion repository in Windows using IIS. This video covers repository creation and connecting to your repository using the RocketSVN for Visual Studio plug-in. The RocketSVN server also supports TortoiseSVN and other Subversion clients.

This podcast covers connecting to your OnTimeNow hosted database using the SDK. The Security GUID and the SDK URL can be found in the Axosoft Store under the Hosted Dashboard. The SDK URL can be used to build the link to any of the services for the SDK and the GUID key must be entered for all function calls to your database. You can find the Service names in the SDK Guide at Axosoft.com/support

In this podcast we discuss importing items using a .csv file into OnTime. Fields from the file can be mapped directly to different fields available in OnTime including custom fields. You can also create import templates which can be extremely helpful for importing items on a regular basis so it only takes a few mouse clicks

The Hosted Dashboard is a great resource to check on the status of any of your OnTime accounts, as well as update licenses, personal information, and find essential information about the Remote Server and SDK components. Go to axosoft.com and click on My Account in the upper right to log-in and get access to the store.

Releases in OnTime allow you to organize all of your items based on their schedule or due dates, as opposed to by projects. Releases can be created by selecting multiple projects to be included and can be broken down into Version and then into Milestones, or Sprints which are smaller, manageable groups of items. This podcast covers creating sprints, adding items to sprints, and managing release types.

This podcast covers different features included with the OnTime Project Wiki. This includes full Wiki Pages, Project Attachments, Notification and Alerts. We also cover creating pages, pasting in HTML, version control, and security for users and customers.

Since OnTime is a mainly a Project Management Tool, being able to create and manage projects effectively is extremely useful. This Podcast covers creating Projects, Configuring Project Properties, and setting Favorite Projects and Inactive Products.

The multi-edit menu is a powerful aspect of OnTime that allows users to make mass changes with a few mouse clicks. Whether changing a single row or multiple rows, in OnTime Windows and Web these changes can take place directly through the main interface. Learn to unlock the power of OnTime by saving time with the multi-edit tool!

This podcast covers sending emails within OnTime using the Email tab. Includes configuring the From address options, Email signatures, attachments, and other features. All emails sent from OnTime include the id tag and name of the item, it is important to leave this id tag along with the subject line in order to properly pull in any replies to emails sent from OnTime and append the emails to the corresponding items.

This weeks FTB covers the options available under Tools/Manage/Email Notifications. This includes connection to your SMTP server, using the Email queue, and the Windows and Web links included with email notifications.

You can use IMAP filters to map different folders to your IMAP accounts. This is a great way to be able to sort email sent to a single email address and still be able to associate them with the appropriate items within OnTime.

This Podcasts covers some of the features for searching for customers, editing customer contact information as well as managing customer contacts within different companies. Improved in version 10.1 of OnTime is the enhanced functionality to search and edit customers while working with all item types.

We discuss adding custom fields for Customers, Customer Contacts, and Projects as well as configuring the field templates for whenever adding/editing any of Customers or Projects. Adding custom fields for these item types is a great way to make sure you're storing all of the information you would need and will help when searching for customers. For more information about creating custom fields, please view Episode 139.

By creating and modifying custom fields in your OnTime Database, you can decide what information is stored along with items, as well as how that information is formatted. Once custom fields are created, they will be available for addition to Field Templates in order to view or update information entered by users or customers.

We cover some of the updates made to Source Control Management through OnTime since episode 67. This includes support for TortoiseSVN and RocketSVN for Visual Studio, and using commits or check-ins using your Source Control Utility to automate workflow in OnTime.

This weeks episode of Fear the Bug covers some of the enhancements bundled with OnTime 10.1. Some of these include: More powerful customer search tool, Improved Email using OnTime Web, Viewing project information, and Managing users.

This week's episodes covers some of the new features included with the release of OnTime version 10.1. Some features include bringing the OnTime Planning Board to the iPad, as well as the ability to view burndown charts from the Planning Board interface. Other features include Favorite Projects, Auto-Refresh, Global Settings Locator, and over a dozen other features and enhancements. To learn more about OnTime v10.1 please visit Axosoft.com.