I'm happy to announce version 2 of Lighthouse Pro, my ColdFusion Bug Tracking application. Changes include:
- Removal of Flash Forms. I love Flash Forms - but found that once I removed them, the application was a heck of a lot more zippier. I was also able to get a lot of things working that I couldn't do before.
- You can now create a user and subscribe them to projects as well. Before you could only assign them. You then had to ask them to logon and subscribe to ensure they got email notifications. It was a silly thing - but it is fixed now.
- Issues can have attachments.
- Quick Stats added to home page.
Enjoy. Like most of my "dot oh" releases, I'm sure it has a few, um, issues with it. One thing I didn't get to add that I really want to is a search feature. This would let you search issues for keywords. Something else I didn't get around to is a print feature for multiple issues. This wasn't my idea but a user's suggestion. It allows you to quickly make a nice PDF of all the issues for a project. Anyway, that is just a glimpse of the future for LHP. Enjoy.
Happy New Year. In case folks are wondering why I'm not posting much - I'm off this week. I won't be back on a normal schedule till Tuesday.
Archived Comments
yeah.. i dig flash forms as well.. but they just don't seem practical for most apps...
is your mssql script missing the update for the attachments column?
Critter - it shouldn't be. I remember adding it and running it in mysql-front.
it's in the mysql scripts.. just not the sqlserver one..
Oops. Yep. Will update later today.
Cheers Ray! Not sure if it's me, but in IE the History textarea is disabled (why is it yellow?) and I can't scroll it if there's lots of text in there.
Would still love a permanent memory for filters and table column ordering.
Cosmetic suggestions: Name of issue in main table should be more readable - how about black instead of light brown? Justified formatting makes it harder to read too due to large gaps between words and possibly the underlining doesn't help. My 2c.
Thanks for pointing RSS links directly to the issue form page. :-)
History is meant to be disabled. You add to it by using Notes. However, scrolling SHOULD work. I'll look into it.
FYI to those upgrading:
You can run this script to add the "attachment" field with out loosing data.
ALTER TABLE dbo.issues ADD
attachment nvarchar(255) NOT NULL CONSTRAINT DF_issues_bob DEFAULT ''
Ray, I think you need to use "readonly" rather than the "disable" attribute. IE will literally disable the form object while Firefox doesn't. But in IE readonly will enable the scrollbar while preventing users from editing the content which I believe is the desired result.
Shoot, I forgot to check that in this mornings build. Will quickly check it.
Zip updated again.
So I guess format="flash" was a flash in the pan?
Nah. I still like them. I think I just went a bit too far in LHP. :)