BootStrapToday Release Notes

On last weekend we made a new release of BootStrapToday containing many bug fixes and enhancements, following is the list of  features added in last release

1. Revamped email notifications:
   • Option to configure project level notifications, add a cc list to track all changes, notify me for project  manger
   • Notification for new files attached to ticket
   • Notification for ticket comments
   • Notifications related to fileshare, option to notify all project members on file upload.
2. Participants field on tickets :
   Many times we want to keep many other people in the loop who are not part of the ticket but they still want to  receive notification and monitor developments on the ticket to achieve this objective participant field is added to tickets.
3. Support for ticket creation & updation through email :
   Many time we are on the move and do not have access to web but want to quickly add comment to a ticket or create a new one, to get more details read BootStrapToday now supports Email Interface
4. Natural sort on ‘subject’ in the ticket list table. 
   Natural sort results more inline with ‘human’ expectations. For example, sorting  ‘1. xyz’, ‘2. xyz’ and ’11.xyz’ by standard dictionary sort will result in ‘1.xyz’, ’11.xyz’ and ‘2.xyz’. Generally this not expected by the user. The using natural sort the results are in ‘1.xyz’, ‘2.xyz’ and ’11.xyz’.
5. Hyperlinks in Ticket description and comments:
   • If there are any hyperlinks (like http://google.com), in ticket description and comments, there links are now a ‘click-able’ hyper links.
   • If ticket description, comment contain references to other tickets in any project in the account, then these are converted to ‘click-able’ links. For example, lets assume there are two projects in account XPRJ and YPRJ. User is adding a new tickets in project XPRJ. In the description he adds references to XPRJ-5 (i.e. a ticket in XPRJ project) and YPRJ-7 (i.e. a ticket in project YPRJ). After ticket is saved, user is redirected to ‘ticket details’ page. On the details page, now the references to XPRJ-5 or YPRJ-7 will be ‘click-able’ links. When user clicks on XPRJ-5 link, he will go directly to XPRJ-5 details page.
   • If the referenced ticket (e.g. YPRJ-7) is closed then it will be shown with a strike-through line.
6. Fileshare improvements:
   Now you can add description to your uploaded file and notify project members of uploaded files. Fileshare UI is also improved.
7. Quick Create and Quick Edit Ticket action has been added on User Dashboard
   So that user can directly create a new ticket in the active milestone or edit an existing ticket assigned to him.
8. Enhanced UI for adding roles and permissions. 

BootStrapToday now supports Email Interface

BootStrapToday now supports e-mail Interface to provide further ease of use. You can now create tickets, comment on tickets and share documents on-the-go through email. Let me illustrate this functionality with an example. Suppose you are at an airport and you want to share some document with your team and comment on the ticket at the same time. This is now possible through an email. You don’t have to login into the system to perform the above actions. Just send an email and everything gets done. It’s as simple as that! For adding the comment just reply to the email notification you received for ticket creation. The attachments in the email are also saved with ticket and uploaded into the SVN.

So, now following operations are possible through email interface:

1. Creating tickets for a project
2. Adding comments to a ticket

3. Sharing documents/attachments with the team

Below is the email format for creating tickets and adding comments:

<Project Short Name>@<subdomain>.bootstraptoday.com

Illustration of BootStrapToday’s email interface:

Say,

the ‘Account’ at BootStrapToday is    : testAccount
and ‘Project Short Name’ is              : abcd

An email to abcd@testAccount.bootstraptoday.com creates a ticket with ticket-subject as email-subject and ticket-description as email-body. The attachment in email gets added to ticket and saved in svn. And you get confirmation emails as usual.

A reply to abcd@testAccount.bootstraptoday.com creates a comment, and here also we handle attachments.

Team BootStrapToday hopes that this feature is helpful to you. Please share your feedback with us.