Integration with Active Directory and Windows Domains
Census integrates with Microsoft Active Directory and with Windows domains, so users can log on to Census using their Windows user accounts, and administrators don't have to manage user information in two places.
Census synchronizes with Active Directory through LDAP. Easy-to-use wizards make it a snap to configure the integration.
For each user, you can choose whether to authenticate with Active Directory, Windows domain, or Census security.
Automatic logon
If you use Windows authentication with Census, users can skip the logon page for Web views. Windows users can simply go to the new, no-logon URL, which immediately displays the list of available Web views. The default no-logon URL is http://server/censusa. You can change the no-logon URL in the Web View Editor.
E-mail submission
Issues can now be submitted to Census by sending an e-mail message.
Census accepts e-mail requests submitted by users, applications and intelligent devices.
Using the Exchange Server Integration Wizard, Administrators create Microsoft Exchange rules
that define defaults for any missing values, and map fields within an e-mail to the Census database.
When Census receives an e-mail to its dedicated account, it automatically creates an issue which
can then be allocated to the development/support team as normal.
Create parent-child links between issues
You can add a Child Issue tab to Web views that allows users to link one or more child issues to a parent issue. For example, if you have several bugs that are all symptoms of the same problem, you can make those bugs the children of the main, parent bug for the problem. Or if a task consists of a number of sub-tasks, the sub-task issues can be children of the main task.
By default, the parent issue controls the substate of the child issues. For example, when you change the substate of the parent to Fixed, all the children are also marked Fixed. If you want the substate of a child issue to be independent from the substate of the parent issue, load the child issue and on the Detail tab, change Substate controlled by parent to No.
Knowledge Base views
The Web View Editor can now generate Knowledge Base (KB) views. KB views are a new type of view that are customized to allow users to search, browse, and read KB articles. A KB view includes a simple search form (a text box and a Go button), a list of KB articles, and a details area for displaying a KB article. The search form allows users to search for text or by KB article number.
You can generate KB views for any project. For existing projects, we recommend you add new fields especially for the KB article information.
Web views - Simple search form
Web views now include a Simple search form that allows users to quickly search issues. Users simply type the search terms into the Search For box and click Go. For more complex searches, users can click Advanced to display the advanced ad-hoc query editor.
Web views - Saved queries
The advanced ad-hoc query editor now allow users to save and reuse
queries. The saved queries are personal queries that the same user can
use in any Web view of the same project. In addition, the new Query
browser allows users to see the details of saved queries.
Web views - Load any issue
The new Web view attribute Load Issues Not In Query controls whether users can load any issue by typing the issue number in the Issue
box. By default, users can load only those issues listed in the Summary
List. But if Load Issues Not In Query=Yes, users can load any issue.
Web views - Pop-up editors for memo fields
Memo fields can now have either a pop-up HTML editor or a pop-up text
editor. This is controlled by the Editor attribute of a memo field in
the Web View Editor.
The HTML editor is a graphical editor that allows you to specify, font type and font size, include URLs, embed
graphical images, and much more. This editor can be enabled for memo text fields such as the Detailed Description.
Web views - Timeout alerts
A user logged on to
a Web view is now notified when the session is about to timeout (due to
inactivity).
The user can reset the timeout counter and keep the session active.
This ensures that users who are actively editing issues but have not
yet saved their work do not lose their changes.
Web views - Hyperlinks in the Summary List
Users can load an issue by clicking any text in the Summary List.
E-mail issues from Web views
Web views now allow users to quickly send an e-mail message containing issue details.
Work teams
You can use Census to help manage and coordinate work teams. To support work teams, Census provides the following capabilities:
- Build a list of work teams. Census includes a global choice list named Work Team.
- Assign users to work teams. The User editor (on the Security tab) in Census Web Admin allows you to assign users to work teams.
- Add an Assigned Work Team field to Web views. This field is used to
assign issues to specific work teams, either manually by users or
automatically by workflow rules.
- Define queries for finding work team issues. Census includes a My
Work Team's Issues query that gets all the issues assigned to a user's
work team, but you may want to define additional queries for work teams
(for example, a query that finds all open issues assigned to the user's
work team).
Submit-only views now support workflow rules
<Value of Field> macro for workflow rules
You can now define Dependent Values workflow rules that assign the value of one field to another field.
Requirements project
The Requirements
project helps in the painstaking task of gathering, documenting,
editing, and communicating project requirements (functional, technical,
and other).
The Requirements Web view includes pop-up help that describes the
purpose of each field.
Default values for new users and new contacts.
You can use an existing user as a template for new users, so that when you create a new user, information such as the company name and address are automatically filled in. Similarly, you can use an existing contact to provide default values for new contacts.
Control the visibility of users and contacts on a per-project basis
To control which users and contacts are available in a project, you assign users and contacts to categories, and then specify which categories are visible in the project.
Global choice lists
Choice lists can now be shared across projects, so instead of defining the same choice list every time you start a new project, you can just use the existing, global choice list.
Web-based administration of user accounts and groups
You can now use Census Web Admin to perform all administration of user accounts and groups, including changing a Census user's logon name, assigning users to groups, and enabling/disabling features and projects for groups.
Log off individual users
The Logons Editor (in Census Admin) now allows you to log off selected users.
