YouTrack Issue Tracker

We’ve announced that YouTrack Daring EAP builds support integration with JIRA 4. This is true but in order to enable integration, you’ll need to download JIRA 4 integration plug-in.

This is a “version 1″ JIRA plugin, meaning that you should deploy it into WEB-INF\lib directory of your JIRA installation. (See Managing JIRA plugins for details.)

Also, make sure to enable JIRA RPC plugin to invoke JIRA operations remotely.

If you’re not sure what else you should do to enable JIRA integration on YouTrack side, see relevant items in YouTrack FAQ.

We have covered YouTrack usage extensively, and we’re still trying to ensure that end users understand what they’re doing when they work with the application.

However, the administrative part has been somewhat overlooked - up until today.

Please welcome YouTrack Administrator’s Guide that currently provides details on the following:

• General Admin area overview: shows how you can use different pages in YouTrack Admin area.
• Initial setup: steps you’re supposed to take when running YouTrack for the first time.
• Administering projects: guidelines on creating, configuring, and importing projects from JIRA.
• Administering user access: procedures for configuring roles, groups, and users.
• Integrating YouTrack with external tools, including JIRA, TeamCity, LDAP, and OpenID.

If there’s something you need to know about YouTrack administration that is not covered in the Administrator’s Guide, please let us know!

If you have executed a search query but the list of matching issues doesn’t fit in a single page, don’t worry, you can select all of them in just one click.

What exactly do you have to do? Say you’ve searched for all your unresolved issues:

for me #unresolved

Found 1000 issues. Now, press Ctrl+A, or click “Select All” on the toolbar to select all issues on the current page. You will notice a message right above your issues: “Click to select all 1000 issues”.

Click the link specifying the number of issues to select. Now, you can modify all found issues with the Command window - for example, type command “won’t fix”, and have a couple of weeks vacation followed by a couple of months at an employment agency!

Be careful though, the changes you make can’t be reverted!

This feature is available in YouTrack EAP in build 67 or later!

We have revamped YouTrack login form to make it prettier and handier.

You can now log into YouTrack with an OpenID from one of five providers:

Ever attempted logging in from your smartphone? This is much easier now. Actually, it’s easier from anywhere: a single button click, and your Gmail (or Yahoo or whatever) credentials let you get in!

The new login form is available in YouTrack EAP starting from build 67.

Enjoy!

Some important news today.

First, you can now follow us on twitter for quick development updates.

Second, YouTrack FAQ has been published in response to feedback that we have received this month. Particularly, it explains:

• How to create new users when they don’t create themselves.
• What’s wrong (or not) with YouTrack when you’re unable to assign an issue to yourself.
• How to simulate subtasks in YouTrack with issue linking.
• Whether it’s possible to visually distinguish between different types of issues.
• Whether YouTrack integrates with version control systems.

That’s not all FAQ is about: see if there are answers to questions you’ve been afraid to ask. If not, ask on, and we’ll answer!

Consider you have to create a link from one issue to another. You select “Link->Relates to” from menu, or type “relates to” and get the following dialog:

At this moment it appears that you do not remember target issue number. What to do? Use text search right here:

Navigate to desired issue and press Tab:

Bingo.

Now you can do it in search field:

… and in commands popup:

Also, your recent searches and recent commands are suggested as well now:

Fix bugs with pleasure