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14 Your Tracker in a Nutshell |
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15 ========================== |
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17 Your tracker holds information about issues in bundles we call *items*. |
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18 An item may be an *issue* (a bug or feature request) or a *user*. The |
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19 issue-ness or user-ness is called the item's *class*. So, for bug |
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20 reports and features, the class is "issue", and for users the class is |
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21 "user". |
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23 Each item in the tracker has an id number that identifies it along with |
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24 its item class. To identify a particular issue or user, we combine the |
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26 incidentally, is *always* the "admin" user) is referred to as "user1". |
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27 Issue number 315 is referred to as "issue315". We call that label the |
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28 item's *designator*. |
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36 Accessing the Tracker |
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37 --------------------- |
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39 You may access your tracker through one of three ways: |
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41 1. through the `web interface`_, |
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42 2. through the `e-mail gateway`_, or |
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43 3. using the `command line tool`_. |
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45 The last is usually only used by administrators. Most users will use the |
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49 Issue life cycles in Roundup |
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50 ---------------------------- |
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52 New issues may be submitted via the web or email. |
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54 By default, the issue will have the status "unread". If another message |
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64 Entering values in your Tracker |
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67 All interfaces to your tracker use the same format for entering values. |
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| 73 String and Numeric properties | |
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| 79 Boolean properties | |
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| 82 These fields take a value which indicates "yes"/"no", "true"/"false", | |
| 83 "1"/"0" or "on"/"off". | |
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| 87 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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| 89 Fields like "Assigned To" and "Topics" hold references to items in other | |
| 90 classes ("user" and "keyword" in those two cases.) | |
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| 101 ``assignedto=richard,george`` | |
| 102 match issues which are assigned to richard or george. | |
| 103 ``assignedto=-1`` | |
| 104 match issues that are not assigned to a user. | |
| 105 ``assignedto=2,3,40`` | |
| 106 match issues that are assigned to users 2, 3 or 40. | |
| 107 ``topic=user interface`` | |
| 108 match issues with the keyword "user interface" in their topic list | |
| 109 ``topic=web interface,email interface`` | |
| 110 match issues with the keyword "web interface" or "email interface" in | |
| 111 their topic list | |
| 112 ``topic=-1`` | |
| 113 match issues with no topics set | |
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| 116 Date properties | |
| 117 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | |
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| 119 Some fields in the search page (e.g. "Activity" or "Creation date") hold | |
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| 135 Either first or second ``<value>`` can be omitted in both syntaxes. | |
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| 137 For example, if you enter string "from 9:00" to "Creation date" field, | |
| 138 roundup will find all issues, that were created today since 9 AM. | |
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| 140 Searching of "-2m; -1m" on activity field gives you issues which were | |
| 141 active between period of time since 2 months up-till month ago. | |
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153 <Range from 2003-03-08.12:00:00 to None> |
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| 556 roundup-admin help <command> -- command-specific help | |
| 557 roundup-admin help all -- all available help | |
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| 564 find classname propname=value ... | |
| 565 get property designator[,designator]* | |
| 566 help topic | |
| 567 history designator | |
| 568 import import_dir | |
| 569 initialise [adminpw] | |
| 570 install [template [backend [admin password]]] | |
| 571 list classname [property] | |
| 572 pack period | date | |
| 573 reindex | |
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