The Blog at Jumptree, a guide to project management, business, coding and anything else that we can think of.

Jumptree Project v1 Coming Soon

| Mon Apr 30 2007

It’s been over a month since we released the beta and we want to thank all of you for the feedback and support!

We’re almost ready for a v1 release. There are just a few more things to iron out.

We fixed a bunch of bugs and UI issues during this time:

  • Installer UI and workflow was corrected. In addition, read/write permission is auto-detected prior to installation and you will be notified if you failed to grant ASPNET/Network Services the proper permissions.
  • Application Errors section now reports every possible system error.
  • The Task ID (along with Task Title) is now displayed for related tasks in the Milestone Overview page and in the Discussion posts.
  • Clicking the File name will allow you to download the file (before you had to click the file icon).
  • An error message will appear if you select a Task Status of Duplicate and leave the Task ID field blank.
  • In the discussions, Published discussions and milestones are clearly labeled with a Published Tag.
  • In the discussions, Closed milestones are clearly labeled with a Closed Tag.
  • Lock/Unlock fixed for Client Contacts and Users (A client contact or user is locked out of the system for 1 hours after 5 unsuccessful login attempts.)
  • Various other GUI improvements here and there.
  • Fixed a bunch of spelling mistakes.

Please note this important workflow change:

Project Managers will not be able to modify the project team members and clients. Only the administrator can add/remove team members and clients for projects.

Our reasoning has always been that users should only see what they need to see. And since a Project Manager is just merely a user who has been given special privileges for a specific project, they should not have the ability to see all users or clients.

We have a few more things left to do:

  • Fix the grammar and spelling for error and warning messages.
  • Correct the UI in a few more places.
  • Hook up credit card transaction and payment system.
  • Finalize the CRM Portal.
  • Complete the documentation.

Most of this should be done very soon. Thanks again for all your support! We’re almost there!

Update: Beta v1.0.0.1

| Wed Apr 4 2007

An update v1.0.0.1 to the beta has just been released.

Here are a list of fixes:

  • Installer Errors — a few beta testers encountered an Email Warning at the end of the setup process because there was a concurrent accessing error when reading the email configuration file. This has been fixed.
  • Setup Logging — we had one user who had problems updating the connection string in the configuration file. However, because we didn’t have error logs during the setup phase, we were unable to diagnose this problem. We’ve now added a full logging stack during the setup phase so the next time you encounter any issues, simply post the content of the log files and we’ll be able to better resolve the issue.
  • Statistics — a few beta testers pointed out some confusion over the statistics that Jumptree Project was reporting. We’ll be taking their suggestions and revamping the statistics reporting so that it’s clearer.
  • GUI Fixes — CSS, images, text misspellings, and the like.

Jumptree Project Beta Released!

| Thu Mar 15 2007

Personally I would like a few more weeks before we release this beta, but Liming keeps chanting the release early, release often mantra.

So please help us beta test Jumptree Project!

These are the system requirements:

  • Microsoft .NET 2.0 Framework
  • Micorosoft SQL Server 2000
  • Internet Information Server
  • You must have DBO permission to your Database.

And here are the setup instructions:

  1. Create a SQL Server 2000 database
  2. Go to [software location]/setup/default.aspx
  3. Follow the wizard directions and you’re ready to go!

If you have any problems you can email us or get help on the forums.

And the support manual is coming really soon… I promise!