Ladies and Gentlemen, it is with great pleasure that we announce the long awaited arrival of Project Groups in FogBugz On Demand!
Project Groups are a way to organize your Projects together in FogBugz so that it’s easier to search and filter by multiple Projects at once. This feature was previously available as a plugin but is now available for all, so long as you’ve switched to the new, shiny and fast FogBugz UI. If you’ve been holding off, then now’s the time to upgrade (and if you’ve been using the plugin, then all the project groups you’ve already defined will come with you)!
Here’s a little more about how Project Groups can help you to be more productive:
Let me tell you a story. A true story… ok, perhaps it is more of a realistic story*.
*Any resemblance to real persons or actual facts is purely coincidental.
Katyusha and the Neverending Search String
Katyusha recently signed up for a FogBugz On Demand account. She works as a freelance software consultant. She is hard-working and loyal, so she has many repeat clients. She usually has about four or five clients at one time, each with multiple projects and she likes to keep past projects around for later reference.
However, Katyusha noticed that there was no obvious way to group Projects together. She resolved to have one or more manual filters for each client, made of very long Search For queries, like:
project:"Dogebot" OR project:"Doge-o-matic" OR project:"Wow" OR project:"Very Project"
This worked but was a real pain to maintain. Every time she started a new project for a client, she had to manually update all of the filters’ Search For values.
But now with Project Groups, Katyusha woes have come to an end. She can now just create a Project Group.
This means she doesn’t need the ugly Search For strings anymore, and instead can make use of Project Group filters. She can even make rapid queries using the projectGroup search axis. For instance:
This will give her the same set of cases of the neverending search string above.
So Katyusha, FogBugz and her clients lived happily ever after. The End.
Nice ending, isn’t it? All stories should end so well!
So, wait no longer and join Katyusha: sign up or upgrade to the new FogBugz On Demand!