Web-based Bug Tracker

• Nothing to install on client machines
• 24x7 access from any computer
• Easy to deploy, setup, and administer
• Define custom Web views for different groups of users (developers, customers, sales, ...)
• Supports multiple Web views per project

• Send e-mail notifications whenever a Bug Tracker issue is updated
• Define custom "when rules" to trigger e-mail notifications:
  • when any field changes
  • when a specific user makes a change
• Customize the content of the messages

Version Control Integration

• Tight integration with Microsoft Visual SourceSafe
• Provides Web-based, distributed access to VSS projects
• Link Bug Tracker issues to source code
• Check source files in and out, get the latest versions, get previous versions, undo changes, and view change histories, all through a browser

• Intuitive interface—as easy as using a browser
• One page provides summary and detailed Bug Tracker issue information
• Point and click access to predefined queries and free-form keyword searches

• Capture and track bugs, enhancements, tasks or any other project-related, business, or technical issue
• Required fields ensure correct level of detail
• Point-and-click editors for customizing fields
• Create parent-child links between issues

• Create multiple projects
• Track bugs on a project-by-project basis
• Multi-user access to project data
• Per-project customizations
• Create multiple Web views for each project

• Attach any type of file, text or binary, to a Bug Tracker issue
• Copy (upload) or link to attachments
• View attached files

• Track changes to Bug Tracker issues (who, when, why)
• Choose which fields are tracked

• Submit issues by sending e-mail messages using Microsoft Exchange integration
• E-mail issues from within Census Bug Tracker
• Use any MAPI or SMTP mail system to send e-mails and notifications

• Use Web-based spell checking solutions to verify accuracy of all submitted text

• Generate reports, charts, and graphs
• Spot trends, break down statistics, generate listings
• Generate and view reports on the Web
• Use predefined reports or build custom reports¹ using Crystal Reports. Custom reports can include features such as charts, formulas, field highlighting, running totals, and graphics.
• Export reports to a variety of formats (including Excel, Word, RTF, and PDF)
• Share reports with other users

• Predefined queries and sorts
• Run ad-hoc queries
• Build new queries with easy-to-use Query Builder
• Use predefined sort and layout styles to format the query results; build custom sort and layout styles
• Share queries, sorts, layouts with other project users

• Browser client
• Web server
• Database server

• Define users and user groups
• Authenticate users using Active Directory, Windows Domains, or Census Security
• Enable and disable features
• Restrict access to specific Web views
• Restrict access to all Web views of a project
• Define workflow rules based on group membership

• Use out-of-box with Microsoft Access database and MSDE, migrate to SQL Server
• Multi-tier architecture provides powerful scalability

• Define per project workflows
• Define the Bug Tracker issue lifecycle by defining a custom workflow model; define states, the possible transitions between states, and which user groups can make state changes
• Automatically set field values based on values of dependent fields

• Customize Bug Tracker to match your process and terminology; add fields, make fields required, remove fields, change captions and value lists
• Customize Web views by editing the HTML/ASP templates used to generate the Web views
• Power Customizations - use the Microsoft Access development environment, Visual Basic, Javascript, and other advanced techniques to customize Census Bug Tracker

• In the Submit-Only view, users can submit new issues, but they cannot run queries or view existing issues. A Submit-Only view is a data entry form for new issues.
• Submit-only views can be easily customized and branded.

• In the Read-Only view, users cannot submit new issues, but they can run queries and view existing issues.

• Knowledge Base views allow users to search, browse, and read knowledge base articles.

• Import/export to over 10 formats
• Point-and-click editor for mapping imported data to Census Bug Tracker fields

• Repair, replicate, and back up databases
• Migrate from Access to SQL
• Delete bugs
• Log off users

• Acquire Census Bug Tracker licenses only for the maximimum number of simultaneous users (users logged on at the same time).