Demo: Introducing Advanced Full-Text Search in YouTrack 3.3

May 12th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

Did you know that you can narrow your text search down to specific fields, such as summary, description, comments, attachments or even code-formatted text? Of course, you get intelligent completion and highlighting. Watch one minute demo to learn more about the advanced full-text search capabilities.

Webinar: Agile with YouTrack 4.0

May 11th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

Update: Registration for this event is now closed. It has been fully booked. We are sorry for the inconvenience and we will no doubt repeat it.

You probably already know what makes YouTrack different from other issue tracking systems. But this time we’ve got something really hot for you! Did you know that the public release of YouTrack 4.0 is only three weeks away? As a teaser, we would like you to meet the next coming version, completely devoted to Agile project management with YouTrack!
In our second webinar, we’ll walk through the main stages of release/sprint planning, using Scrum/Kanban board with Burn Down and Cumulative Flow charts that helps you visualize your team’s progress. All that with YouTrack’s keyboard-centric navigation, advanced search capabilities and commands.
When: Thursday 17th of May 2012. 16:00 to 17:00 CET (Central European Time)

By: Your hosts

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Valery Andrianova         Hadi Hariri

This topic is really popular and we’ve got a limited number of seats available, so please make sure to book your seat in advance.
Grab a cup of coffee, relax and enjoy the show!

YouTrack 3.3: Advanced Full-Text Search

May 2nd, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

Please welcome YouTrack 3.3 — a fresh update for our innovative bug and issue tracker. This time we focused on intelligent full-text search capabilities, to help you filter issues even faster.

What can you do in the new YouTrack 3.3?
  1. Text Search Inside Specific Fields. Now you can narrow your search down to specific fields, such as Summary, Description, Comments, Attachments or even code-formatted text! Of course, you get intelligent completion and highlighting. Here are couple of examples:
  2. You get all issues that have custom and field words in summary.
    Finds all issues matching the exact phrase in description.
    Returns all issues that don’t contain the exact phrase ‘scrum board’ in their comments.
    You’ll get all issues with attachments that contain ‘scrum’ in any part of the attached file name.
    You’ll find all issues that contain the word ‘MyClass’ within the code tag in their descriptions or comments.

  3. ‘Has:description’ Search Query. We’ve added one more attribute that you can use with the ‘has’ keyword. Now you can filter all issues that have a description, using the query has:description.
  4. Multilingual Search. YouTrack has always supported text search in multiple languages, such as: English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Portuguese, Polish, Swedish, and others. We’ve dramatically improved text search quality and added morphological analysis for a number of languages, such as Czech, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese.
  5. Customizable Workflow Language. We’ve added a new getUser method that allows you to find and perform operations on a specific user by their username in custom workflow language. For example, now you can notify a user mentioned in a comment or description.

Please check the release notes for more details. Download YouTrack 3.3 or sign up for YouTrack InCloud - to start using the latest version in no time! All the existing YouTrack InCloud customers are welcome to check the fresh version on their sites, it’s already there!

Enjoy your intelligent issue tracking even more!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

‘YouTrack: The Way It’s Meant To Be’ Webinar Recording

April 24th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

Thanks to everyone for joining us for the first YouTrack: The Way It’s Meant To Be online webinar! We enjoyed hosting it and we hope that you enjoyed watching.

As we promised, here is the webinar recording that you’re welcome to watch (especially if you couldn’t make it to the online version). You will surely find interesting details and features you haven’t used before in YouTrack.

Please stay tuned to our news, since we are going to do more webinars. As we’ve already announced, here are the topics of upcoming webinars:

  • Agile Project Management Preview in 4.0
  • Integration with external tools
  • Workflows

Dates and Registration will be announced later.

Feel free to contact us if you have any questions left.

Keep tracking with pleasure!
JetBrains YouTrack Team

YouTrack Webinar: The way it’s meant to be

April 13th, 2012 by Hadi Hariri

You know what makes YouTrack different from other Issue Management Systems? It’s focused around simplicity and productivity. And those aren’t just marketing hooks to get your interest spiked. YouTrack is genuinely about making it easier for you as a developer to manage issues, bugs, tasks and allow you to focus on what you enjoy, which is writing code. With its insane keyboard navigation, but more insanely productive command system, it lets you get the job done with minimum effort. Of course, it also offers a nice User Experience for the non-technical crowd too, so it fits everyone.

In this upcoming webinar we’re going to introduce you to YouTrack, but you’re going to see it in the context of how its meant to be used. We’ll cover project creation, working with issues, both individually as well as in bulks, customizing issues, powerful searches and more.

When: Thursday 19th of April 2012. 15:00 to 16:00 CET (Central European Time)

By: Your hosts

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Valery Andrianova         Hadi Hariri

(Yes, I know, no comparison whatsoever)

Where: You set the terms of where you want to view this from (Sofa, Desk, Bed). Just make sure you register

We hope you join us!

Welcome to Customizable Workflow Repository!

April 6th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

Welcome to YouTrack Customizable Workflow Repository! Here you can find all the default workflows included into YouTrack, along with their descriptions and code. You can also see a number of workflows we’ve developed based on your requests.

Each workflow is available as a downloadable package - just download it and import into your YouTrack. You can use our workflows ‘as is,’ or customize and tweak their code to match your specific requirements and use cases.

What kind of workflows are already in there?

Just as a teaser, here are some examples of workflows you can find in our repository.

  • Votes and Watchers. Add the project lead to an issue watchers list once the issue collects a certain number of votes.
  • Clear ‘Fix For Version’. Clear ‘Fix for version’ field when an issue is reopened.
  • Notify User Mentioned in Comment. Send notification to a user mentioned in a comment.
  • ‘Open’ Assigned Issues. Change an issue state to Open when an assignee is added.
  • Feedback Management. Handling of email feedback.
  • New Issue Description Template. Provide external reporters with a description template for New Issue.
  • And that’s just the tip of the iceberg! Take a look here - chances are you’ll find your exact use case!

    If you would like to share a workflow you’ve created, please send it to us and we’ll add it to the repository, giving you all the credit!

    Good luck!
    -JetBrains YouTrack Team

    YouTrack 4.0 EAP With Scrum Board Is Open!

    April 5th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

    YouTrack 4.0, code-named Fascination, is fully devoted to agile project management. It’s time to lift the curtain and unveil a completely new module in YouTrack, called Agile. We’ve got a lot to share and we’re anxious to get your feedback. So, after you’re done reading - or even before - try YouTrack EAP with Scrum Board and have fun!

    What’s Already In There?

    Scrum Board

    Visualize your development process and increase your agile team’s productivity. Add features to the board to form a swimlane for each one, then break it down by tasks right on the board. Add estimations, assignees, priorities, drag your tasks around the board, and much more. Get a clear view of your team’s progress using the burn down chart. All that with YouTrack’s keyboard-centric navigation, advanced search capabilities and commands!

    YouTrack Agile Tips

  • Each feature forms it’s own swimlane on Scrum Board.
  • Version is treated as ’sprint’ on Scrum Board.
  • If you filter #Project and #version, all issues assigned to this version and project will be shown on the board, according to the States you configured to appear on the board. For example, by default we start from the Open State, so you won’t see Submitted issues on the Scrum board.
  • You’ll see features as swimlanes and all issues linked to the feature as ’subtask of’.
  • All issues that are not linked to any feature will appear at the bottom of the board in the ‘orphans’ swimlane as well, according to their states.
  • When you create a task inside the feature swimlane, the issue is automatically created as a ’subtask of’ the current feature.
  • Subtasks are shown as a tree in one-line view on the issues list only.
  • We assume you are now ready to go and start your first sprint with YouTrack Scrum Board. Try YouTrack 4.0 EAP!

    You can choose to install YouTrack EAP build on your own server, or play with our sandbox YouTrack InCloud site. Visit our EAP page to get more details about the already implemented features and those coming soon.

    Send us your feedback!

    Also, we encourage you to follow us on social networks to keep abreast of the latest news:

    Be Agile with YouTrack!
    JetBrains YouTrack Team

    YouTrack 3.2.3 Is Available!

    April 4th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

    Please welcome a fresh spring update for your fast-flying issue tracker — YouTrack 3.2.3! This minor release is devoted to a number of bug fixes you’ve been waiting for. Please check the full list of release notes for more details.

    Download YouTrack 3.2.3 along with YouTrack Workflow Editor 3.2.3 and keep tracking your issues with pleasure! If you are using YouTrack InCloud, a fresh 3.2.3 version is already there. Would you like to check out the latest version and skip the installation process? Then sign up for YouTrack InCloud absolutely free right now!

    Your JetBrains YouTrack Team

    Easter Egg-Stravaganza!

    April 2nd, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

    Have you behaved all year and written concise, clear code? Then go get your baskets ready, because the Easter Bunny is close!
    From April 2 until April 16, the Easter Bunny is giving away great discounts on your favorite issue tracker YouTrack as well as on many of our IDEs.

    Get 20% OFF on ANY stand-alone pack of YouTrack!

  • 25-User Pack - $199
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  • Catch the Easter Bunny before it’s gone!

    Happy Easter, and develop with pleasure!
    -JetBrains Team

    YouTrack InCloud Is Open for Purchase

    March 26th, 2012 by valerie.andrianova

    YouTrack InCloud is now available for purchase in our brand new JetBrains eStore! If you are already using YouTrack hosted in the cloud, you have two options:

  • Choose and purchase one of the commercial plans. Get 2 months free by choosing a yearly subscription!
  • Or switch to a free plan.
  • To proceed to purchase, please log in first, using your JetBrains Account. Also, JetBrains Account allows you to check your subscriptions details in customer profile.
    Here is a quick preview of the available plans:

    For more details, please check our Pricing page.
    And here is some detailed information about the plan options for YouTrack InCloud:
    Private and Public Projects

    1. In a Public Project, you cannot change the level of visibility or make your data private. It means that your site will be public and available to all non-registered users. Technically, you have a ‘Guest’ user which cannot be banned.
    2. In a Private Project, you set up the level of visibility on a per-project or even per-issue level. You can make any data available to specific user(s) or group(s) only.

    Introducing a new Users + Reporters concept
    In YouTrack InCloud we offer additional user accounts called ‘Reporters’ at no additional charge. So, with every commercial plan you get a number of users plus a set of reporters.
    Who are Users and who are Reporters?

    1. Reporter is a type of user account with the basic set of permissions that cannot be extended. Reporter accounts are intended to be used for your external customers, who usually perform basic actions such as browsing and reporting, commenting, linking issues, adding watchers, and so on.
    2. User is a type of user account with the full set of permissions. User accounts are created for your development team members.

    Check Reporter vs User Permissions for more details.
    Custom Logo allows you to customize the logo in your YouTrack header.
    SSL Connection enables a secure access to your YouTrack InCloud site.
    Storage Limits. You get 5GB of disk space in any plan by default. It be increased by contacting technical support at no additional cost.
    Which plan is right for you?

    1. Free Plan. You get up to 9 users and 3,000 issues, no reporters, no private projects, no SSL or custom logo. This plan is the best choice for a small public project with no external users.
    2. Commercial Plans. You choose a commercial plan according to the number of your internal users and external reporters. All commercial plans include private projects, SSL and custom logo and an unlimited number of issues and projects.

    Now you are ready to choose a plan that suits or needs best. Welcome to JetBrains eStore!
    Take your bugs to the cloud!
    JetBrains YouTrack Team