VisionProject is always moved forward by customer requests!
Please let us know if you have any specific feature requests or improvements that
you want us to add by e-mail us at support@visionproject.se.
Release plan
Version 6.4 - Planned for release in beginning of October (Preliminary feature set)
Issue management
Planning board
Ability to specify a group as an "issue owner"
Issue links should be shown directly in issue lists
Issue type - it should be able to set name and/or icon
Document management
Ability to make a document read-only
User management
Export/import users
Company management
Export companies
Project management
Budget on project and version
Product management
Ability to connect a product to a project
Add releases to a product
Miscellaneous
AND/OR searches
Upgrade to Ext JS 3.3
Improved reports, diagrams and metrics
Recurring payments for our hosted customers
Previous releases
Version 6.3 - Released July 4
Issue management
Now available as standard field: Solution. Text field area for solution to issues
Now available as standard field: Source, i.e. (Normal, E-mail, Support Center, Web Service, Simple form)
Make fields for user and company object available in simple web-forms
Make it possible to send auto-reply for normal issues created by support users
Unique ranking (ordering) of issues within a version/release
Configuration
Be able to control what issue types should be available to different user groupes
It should be possible to set if the left navigation panel should be hidden/visible
Be able to set if personal info about users should be visible to support users
Email ticket system
Make it possible to blacklist senders
Make source-parameter available in auto-reply
Document management
Improved search/indexing on document (content)
Usability
Make it easier to get external direct link to issue for support users
Make it easier to create issue on company
Miscellaneous
Improved Kanban board
Plugin architecture for installed version
Spanish language support
Version 6.2 - Released May 30
Support Center module
Improved SLA management with the ability to connect SLA's to customers
Miscellaneous improvements
Document management
Improved searching on documents
Miscellaneous
Agreement/Contract management. Makes it possible to specify agreements/contracts between you and customers/distributors.
Bug fixes
Version 6.1 - Released April 11th
Issue management
Tabs on issues
Links to project documents on issues
Make an issue read-only for certain groups and users
Improved resource allocation on versions
New standard issue field: "Product" that contains all items from the "Product tree" that has the type "Product"
New custom issue field that contains specified items from the "Product tree"
Company management
Improvements on company information: company type, status, customer number. Improved search.
Import Companies from csv file
Miscellaneous
Product tree
Timeline showing versions and issues grouped on project
New methods in the Web Service API
French language support
Issue attachments is now sorted on create date. Latest on top.
Bug fixes
Version 6.0 - Released February 14th
Issue management
Improved permission on issues, ability to add individual users
Enhancements to the subscription functionality
Ability to update all active links in a chain
Email ticket system
Support for HTML in emails, with inline images
Miscellaneous
Support for German, Czech, Polish and Norwegian languages
The Web Service API is now available on the hosted version
Some minor bug fixes :-)
Version 5.4 - Released December 13th
Issue management
Add import/export to MS Project
Add action to upload documents for builds
When adding a document on an issue the issue history should be updated
Email ticket system
Improve reply templates in reply to correspondent with variables
Miscellaneous
Make it easy to create new email / outgoing communication
Ability to specify attributes when doing a commit to Subversion
Make it possible to configure if a project should be opened by default
Add the ability to have "commands" when replying from an email client
Version 5.3 - Released November 15th
Issue management
Add subscribers to issues
Enhance links between issues so you can update linked issues "automatically"
Include [no version] in the version dropdown for Issues page
Make it possible to change the text in notifications
Add context menu in "Quick search"
Ability to change Issue type in context menu
Added the ability to specify "your own" minutes in date+time fields (previously only 0, 15, 30 and 45 was possible)
Company management
Companies should be displayed in an Ext grid
Miscellaneous
Improve "Recent activity" to be customizable
Cycle time chart in the Kanban board
Settings on account level should use a tree instead of tabs
Forum messages should be available in Recent activity
Version 5.2.1 - Released October 19th
This is mostly a bug fix release with a few new features stuffed in.
Issue management
The "Last visited issues"-panel will now remember the issues between logins
New column in "Recent activity"-portlet that displays who has done the change
Paste as plain text and paste as word has been added to the HTML textareas
Miscellaneous
Bug fixes - mostly notably we have fixed the issues with unnecessary spacing between rows in HTML textareas.
Version 5.2 - Released September 27th
Issue management
Kanban/Task board
Cumulative Flow Diagram
HTML area in description and comments
Improve readability for Issue History Log
Add a "Version-sub menu" in Issue tab that displays all issues in the selected version
All Components should be available in filter mode
"Add new worklog" should be available in the context menu
Let parent inherit start date and end date from children
Improved design of the Issue History log
Ticket system
A processing rule that disables auto-reply
A processing rule that makes it possible to send an alternative auto-reply
Add a processing rule criteria that checks the issue status
Misc
Possibility to override "nomenclature", e.g. instead of Version you can use Release, etc.
Improved LDAP module (added support for a mixed password hashing mechanisms)
Show Worklog per user on Project page
Enhanced "Version/Release" page with progress information and graphs
Bug fixes
Version 5.1 - 5th of July
Issue management
Issue History export
Exporting selected issues using context menu
Access on issue comments
SLA management
Ability to filter on severity in Alerts
Web Service API
Enhanced Web Service API - better query functionality, document upload/download and more
Ticket system
Ability to create a "subject template" for email replies
Ability to set Issue type in processing rules
Improved identification of a VisionProject ticket id (easier to let two different ticket systems cooperate)
Reports
Details in the "Average time in status" report has been added
Misc
Domain mapping on companies
GUI themes
Ability to set which user groups a particular user group can set in "Invite users"
Added "document has been changed"-notification
(Installed version) Default locale can be set in property file
(Installed version) Better management of invalidated MySQL connections
Version 5.0.1 - Released 2009-05-11
Issue management
Set current issue as sub-issue to another issue
Add warning that changes will not be saved if moving to "add document"
Ability to choose "Unassigned" for "Fix for version" in context-menu
Dashboard/portal
Modified date and Created date added to issue-portlets in the dashboard
Misc
Added TicketId to the "Issue document"-added notification
A few minor usability enhancement
Bug fixes
Version 5.0 - Released 2009-04-06
Issue management
Improvements in the edit issue view
Ability to open an issue in its own tab
Added "time line" for versions
Add dependencies between issues
Improved issue link functionality (dialog on the same page)
Added quicklinks for company
Made it easier to add subissues directly in issue table
Batch update directly in issue table
Added "column views" for choosing columns for a personalized issue views
Batch update for sub-issues
Improve workflow management
Flexibility/configurability
Improved time/work log report
Access control with finer granularity
Custom fields on user/contacts
Different statuses per issue type, configurable on project
Ability to limit access on an issue for a user group, depending on current status.
Company as a new custom field
Document management
More consistent functionality between views
Improved screenshot applet - with local save and reduced size
Reduced size for multi-upload and document-edit applet
Improve usability
Improved usability and readability in some pages (e.g. the permissions page)
More quick links for easy access to frequently used functions
Extended context menu
Search and reports
New report section
New SLA (Service Level Agreement) reports
Improved MSExcel export
More grouping options and including billable/none billable hours in time report
Support center module
Add setting to make it possible for users to see all issues at their associated company
New SLA (Service Level Agreement) reports
Add preview to Support Center
Quicklinks on reply to correspondent for adding reply easier
Dashboard/portal
The portal will be completely configurable and settings will be remembered between logins
Many new statistics portlets
Misc
Many new custom field types
Upgrade to new version of EXTJS for increased performance and compabtiblity
More personal and company settings
I18n improvements
A couple of bugfixes. Yes, we had a couple of those :-)
Version 4.1 - Released 10 November 2008
This release contains a few new features and some bug fixes.
Issue management
Ability to add new issues directly in the issue table
Added documentation and samples for "Simple forms". (Ability to create issues with forms outside of VisionProject.)
Made aggregated fields read-only for parent issues if sub-issues are used. For the fields: Estimated time, Actual time and Remaining time.
Added Copy/Transfer to the context-menu on issues
Warning when concurrent modification in edit issue and reply to correspondent happens
Ability to create new companies directly from the user info dialog
Dashboard
Added "Last visited issues"-area in the left-hand-side panel
Add the ability to choose which issues to show in My open issues (where owner, where developer and/or where reporter)
Document management
Visual compare of old versions of HTML and TXT files
Image viewer - ability to view image files in the Document archive as well as on issues
Ticket system
Add To: and Cc: fields from emails to the description
Improved "Reply to correspondent" so two users cannot make a reply on the same issue at the same time
Miscellaneous
Added ability to group by: issue, user and date in the time report
Improved Web Service API
Bug-fixes
Version 4.0 - Released 1 September 2008
As of version 4.0 the user interface has been totally revised and greatly improved by using the
EXTJS framework. This has affected many parts of the system and many
changes have been needed to make this happen. To guarantee quality of the new version once released
to our customers we have decided to postpone the release of the new version until the August. We are
sorry for the delay of this release but we think you will be very pleased with the new version.
Issue management
Tags on issues
Enhanced Custom fields - they will be handled exactly as normal fields.
Context menu on issues in issue lists. (With quick edit ability and more...)
Ability to have calculated times on parents (from sub-issues)
Progress column added in issue lists (Remaining time vs. Estimated time)
Project management
Copy/clone projects + project templates
Improved time tracking
Document management
Revisions on documents
Possible to lock documents
Quick edit-save of any document
Personal notes
Ability to see all issue documents for a project in one page
Ability to create a new user directly from the New issue page
Ability to add separators in the Issue Field Configurations
Issue field configuration preview
Improved comments view and history log on issues
Misc
API - create issues, list issues, etc.
Add customer companies. A user can be associated to a company and filters/searches can be done on with a company as a search criteria
Integrate a Version Control System (Subversion and/or CVS)
Internationalization, support for other languages than English.
Burn-down charts
Document tab improvements, total size of all files, number of files, multi upload/download
LDAP integration
Version 3.0 - 28 February 2007
Issue management
Work log on issues with time reporting
Ability to add more than one attachment when creating a new issue
Escalation reports. When an issue is overdue a notification will be sent.
Calendar view in issue tab
Add images to the 'Print view' of an issue
Reports
Ability to choose which field you want to have in the report and in which order.
New predefined reports
Export search results and issue lists to XML/Excel/PDF/Word
Installed version
Support for MySQL
Support Center
Ability to search for ticket id in the quick issue field.
Ability to tag a knowledge base article as a featured article.
Ability to exclude knowledge base articles from being shown in latest changed articles.
Misc
Calendar view to show due dates for issues and versions, both on Start page and on the Projects page
Add the ability to let the administrator to have access to all project.
Add the ability to search on Issue History log as well (comments, customer e-mails, etc.)
Version 2.4.2 - 16 October 2006
Once again mostly a bugfix release. The new features in this version is a full featured Spam filter
as well as the ability to specify which statuses that should be used in a project.
This is mostly a bugfix release but it contains some nice new features such as batch delete of users, project categories and
the ability to specify that a user should only have access to issues where she is the owner, the reporter or the developer of an issue.
This release focus a lot on improvement of the Support Center (helpdesk) as well as a new improvements on the edit issue and the
ability to show searches on the Start page (Dashboard).
In this release add a lot of customization features has been added to VisionProject, making is possible to use
VisionProject for virtually all types of projects, not only software development projects.
Release plan
