Fear the Bug Video Podcast (HD)

Since OnTime is a mainly a Project Management Tool, being able to create and manage projects effectively is extremely useful. This Podcast covers creating Projects, Configuring Project Properties, and setting Favorite Projects and Inactive Products.

The multi-edit menu is a powerful aspect of OnTime that allows users to make mass changes with a few mouse clicks. Whether changing a single row or multiple rows, in OnTime Windows and Web these changes can take place directly through the main interface. Learn to unlock the power of OnTime by saving time with the multi-edit tool!

This podcast covers sending emails within OnTime using the Email tab. Includes configuring the From address options, Email signatures, attachments, and other features. All emails sent from OnTime include the id tag and name of the item, it is important to leave this id tag along with the subject line in order to properly pull in any replies to emails sent from OnTime and append the emails to the corresponding items.

This weeks FTB covers the options available under Tools/Manage/Email Notifications. This includes connection to your SMTP server, using the Email queue, and the Windows and Web links included with email notifications

You can use IMAP filters to map different folders to your IMAP accounts. This is a great way to be able to sort email sent to a single email address and still be able to associate them with the appropriate items within OnTime.

This Podcasts covers some of the features for searching for customers, editing customer contact information as well as managing customer contacts within different companies. Improved in version 10.1 of OnTime is the enhanced functionality to search and edit customers while working with all item types.

We discuss adding custom fields for Customers, Customer Contacts, and Projects as well as configuring the field templates for whenever adding/editing any of Customers or Projects. Adding custom fields for these item types is a great way to make sure you're storing all of the information you would need and will help when searching for customers. For more information about creating custom fields, please view Episode 139.

By creating and modifying custom fields in your OnTime Database, you can decide what information is stored along with items, as well as how that information is formatted. Once custom fields are created, they will be available for addition to Field Templates in order to view or update information entered by users or customers.

We cover some of the updates made to Source Control Management through OnTime since episode 67. This includes support for TortoiseSVN and RocketSVN for Visual Studio, and using commits or check-ins using your Source Control Utility to automate workflow in OnTime.

This weeks episode of Fear the Bug covers some of the enhancements bundled with OnTime 10.1. Some of these include: More powerful customer search tool, Improved Email using OnTime Web, Viewing project information, and Managing users.