Table of Contents

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Basic Functionality

• What's New in FogBugz 7 Powerful new features, the Plugin platform, and more...
• FogBugz in Two Minutes A whirlwind tour of FogBugz
• Outlining a Project in the FogBugz Case List
• The Basics of Bug Tracking
• Ten Tips for Bug Tracking Ideas for successful bug tracking
• Filters Finding the Cases You Care About
• Saved Filters
• Searching in FogBugz
• Projects and Areas How to organize cases
• Subcases Break down your work into manageable parts
• Custom Fields Add a new case field in minutes
• Tags Assign searchable keywords to cases and wiki pages
• Capture Screenshots The easiest way to report a bug
• Release Notes Produce lists of new features and fixed bugs for your customers
• Versions Track the version where a bug was found
• Linking cases
• Working Through a List of Cases
• Finding Out About Changes Email notification, subscribing to a case, link colors, and searching for changed cases
• Bulk Operations Do things to several cases at once
• Keyboard Shortcuts FogBugz is designed to work well without touching the mouse

Creating and Maintaining Documentation

• Introduction to Wikis Create and maintain project documentation
• Managing a Community Wiki Open up your wiki to a wide audience
• Wiki Table of Contents Insert a dynamically-updating table of contents into wiki pages

Working with Customers

• Handling Incoming Customer Email Sending, receiving, tracking, and responding to customer email
• Allowing Customers to Enter Cases Allow customers to enter cases without logging on
• Web-Based Discussion Groups Create a community where customers can ask questions, discuss your product, help each other out, and get help from your staff
• BugzScout Getting bug reports from the field

Project Management and Schedules

• Keeping on Schedule Sophisticated scheduling features keep your projects on track
• Evidence-Based Scheduling The EBS algorithm provides radically better schedules than any other method
• Project Backlog Use FogBugz in a Agile/Scrum development environment
• Milestones Each project can have releases indicating important milestones (alpha, beta, etc.)
• Priorities Assign priorities 1 through 7
• How to Estimate Software Tasks The art of coming up with accurate estimates
• Entering Estimates in FogBugz
• Telling FogBugz what You're Working On
• Using the Estimate History Report See how good a given developer is at estimating features
• Project Reports Shows the probability that you will be finished with all the features for a given release by any given date
• Working Schedules Tell FogBugz when you're going to be at work
• Setting Due Dates

FogBugz Plugins

• An Introduction to Plugins Customize the functionality of your FogBugz site
• The FogBugz Plugin Gallery Browse plugins made by the FogBugz development community
• Installing Plugins
• Writing Your Own Plugin Join the FogBugz development community
• Plugins by Fog Creek Software
  • Custom Workflow Customize case categories, statuses and assignment
  • Project Backlog Use FogBugz in a Agile/Scrum development environment
  • URL Trigger Send custom HTTP requests triggered by FogBugz events
  • Custom Fields Add a new case field in minutes
  • Table of Contents (Wiki) Insert a dynamically-updating table of contents into wiki pages

Getting the Most Out of FogBugz

• RSS Feeds
• Source Control Integration
• Types of FogBugz Users The difference between normal, administrator, virtual, and community users
• Community Users
• Groups Easily organize FogBugz users
• Permissions Restrict users' access to certain parts of FogBugz
• Site Settings Global FogBugz options
• Custom Workflow Customize case categories, statuses and assignment
• Copying FogBugz Users Quickly add many users of a particular type
• The Admin Dashboard Get a complete view of your FogBugz site
• XML API Interact with FogBugz programatically via HTTP requests
• Plugins Add to or change the functionality of your FogBugz site
• URLTrigger Send custom HTTP requests triggered by FogBugz events

Setting up FogBugz on Your Own Server

Learn about setting up the FogBugz server on:

• Windows
• Unix/Linux
• Macintosh OS X

Some other setup tasks you might want to do:

• Importing Cases from Another Bug Tracker
• Enabling HTTP Compression

FogBugz On Demand

• Your Account Managing your FogBugz on Demand account
• Billing FAQ

Release notes for the latest versions of FogBugz

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