Fear the Bug Video Podcast (HD)

This video covers using our exporting utility to extract data from OnTime using a .csv file. Data can be exported from all items in OnTime including Defects, Features, Tasks, Incidents and even Work Logs. This .csv file is very easily read by applications like Microsoft Excel, Open Office, or other spreadsheet/database utilities

This is the second video in our series about the Customer Portal. We discuss security within the portal, setting up which projects are available on a company basis and how to enable specific customers privileges within those projects. We then cover new customer registration through the portal, and how to set new customer defaults.

This is the first of a 2 part podcast on configuring customer portal. Customer portal is an interface that allow you to give some access to your customers to bring them into your development process. We discuss configuring anonymous access, RSS, customer field templates and customizing images and text. In next week's episode we'll cover security in the portal and registering customers.

Managing Work Logs in OnTime is a great way to monitor the progress of projects and will also be immensely helpful for planning future projects. This week's podcast covers the original and remaining estimate fields, adding work logs, and running reports regarding work log entries.

The second video regarding Workflow in OnTime covers the "Edit" and "Edit in Workflow" privileges, and creating field templates specific to certain workflow steps. In This video we cover how to restrict the "Edit" privilege and the security settings to enforce users use the templates specified for workflow steps.

This is the first of two podcasts that discuss customizing workflow in OnTime. This podcast covers all the different settings that are configurable for your processes like using automated step actions, notifications, color coding, and allowed next steps.

In this week's podcast, we cover creating both field change and filter alerts. Alerts are a great way to monitor your OnTime database and be able to be notified when specific actions are taken or notify you of items that meet any series of conditions in a filter. For more information on using filters, please view episodes 86 and 87 or Fear the Bug.

In this week's episode we review ways to get started with evaluating OnTime. We take a look at the sample database, add users, show you how to allow your customers to log-in using the customer portal, and we create projects and work items.

Axosoft offers free 30-day team trials for both the Hosted and Installed flavors of OnTime. During this trial, you can connect to your OnTime database using all of the available clients including: the rich Windows app; the Visual Studio, Eclipse, and TortoiseSVN plug-ins; and the iPhone client. For more information about help resources available to you, please see episode #118 of Fear the Bug.

This podcast covers all the different resources available to Axosoft's customers. Some of these include, live demos, training courses, forums, maintenance plans, professional services, and instructional videos. For more information visit axosoft.com, follow Axosoft on twitter, or become our friends on Facebook.

In this week's installment of Fear the Bug, we cover getting started with a hosted trial of OnTimeNow. You can sign up for a free 30-day team trial at Axosoft.com and create a database to begin evaluating OnTime in a matter of minutes. Our hosted accounts are always updated with the most current version of OnTime and signing up today gives you access to a hosted account with all of the features released earlier this week with the launch of OnTime version 10.0.