RSS Notifications

FogBugz publishes RSS feeds, allowing you to use an RSS aggregator to receive notifications, so you can keep up to date on changes to your filter without opening your web browser. FogBugz supports RSS version 2.0.

Note: An RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") reader or aggregator is a program that checks with a bunch of websites to see if there's anything new there, and shows you a list of new items on all the sites in one central location. That way you don't have to visit sites that haven't added anything new since the last time you looked. Many websites, including popular news websites and most weblogs, publish RSS feeds so that RSS aggregators can find out if anything new has appeared.

FogBugz creates an RSS feed automatically whenever you save a filter. For the RSS link, go into the Manage Saved Filters screen. You will see a little orange RSS link next to every saved filter. Copy the link location into your favorite RSS aggregator.

Note: Some RSS readers may not support cookies, making it impossible for them to keep you logged on to FogBugz. To work around this problem, you will need to append your user name and password to the end of your feed link manually:

(FogBugz-generated RSS link)&sEmail=email&sPassword=password

You can also subscribe to a single bug using RSS, which will notify you as that bug changes, just as subscribing by email would. Simply enter the URL of the bug itself in your RSS aggregator, which will automatically discover the URL of the RSS link for that bug. The URL of bug number 1234 is http://fogbugz/?1234 where fogbugz is your main FogBugz URL.  (If your aggregator cannot automatically find the RSS url, you can enter it manually as http://fogbugz/rss.asp?ixBug=1234)

For a time-saving tip on using a tabbed browser to display each case in a list in its own tab, see this article.

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