Best Practices

Greetings, YouTrack aficionados! We already tweeted about 10 YouTrack features that you might not have seen or used before. Tweets are great, but we know how much nicer it can be to have all of your reading material in one place. That's why we decided to compile all those tips into a blog post for easier reading. Enjoy! 1. Similar issues While you’re entering the summary for a new issue, YouTrack searches for issues with similar summaries and displays them in a list as you type. This helps you avoid creating duplicates and helps you find existing issues that you might want to link yo

All jobs have some kind of routine to them, especially when you work in a team: close a user story when all its subtasks are resolved; remind your teammates about upcoming deadlines; create a release task and a bunch of subtasks and assign them to the responsible individuals. Do these steps sound familiar? Doing tasks like this manually wastes time and increases the chances that something important gets missed. YouTrack is here to the rescue. Several years ago we introduced a feature called Workflows, which can automate all these kinds of routine tasks for you. In this blog post, we will share

In this blog series, we introduce you to useful features inside YouTrack and show you how to use them effectively. In this post, we’ll show you how to set up dashboards for executive overview, team view, personal backlogs, and guest landing pages. Dashboards can be used to provide a running report, so you are always informed about the current state of your projects and tasks in YouTrack. They can display charts, calendars with due dates, notification feeds, time tracking stats, and more. You can find all the available dashboard widgets on JetBrains Marketplace. Creating an

Welcome back to our Make It Workflow series! We have received several requests from the community to discuss YouTrack features that can be utilized by the QA team. Today we would like to take a look at how to maintain test management scenarios (TMS) in YouTrack. This article will demonstrate how YouTrack can be set up so that you can maintain test management functionality within YouTrack itself, allowing you to avoid having to use third-party solutions. This approach helps you save on licence costs and makes the test management process flow more smoothly. This article is for test managers and

Watch on demand the online demo for YouTrack Administrators. You can see in action how to set up and adjust YouTrack to manage your team tasks and projects, and to play nice for the needs of your team and the whole company. The demo is followed by a live Q&A session. You’ll get an overview of how to: Create and set up projects for various teams Make sure project settings and YouTrack workflows reflect your business processes Manage user roles so that every team member gets the most of YouTrack Set up integrations with external tools Create and manage Agile boards that follow your team’s

Watch on demand our YouTrack Essentials demonstration, where you can get an overview of how to manage your tasks and projects easily, keep a Knowledge Base, work with your team’s Agile boards, use the time tracking feature effectively, and monitor everything with reports and dashboards. You'll get to see real examples of how JetBrains YouTrack can organize your teamwork in any environment – whether your team members work from home, from multiple offices, or all in one location. The demo is followed by a live Q&A session. Join us online to see how your team can get ahead of the game! What

You can read this post in English, French, Russian, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish. We are excited to announce the release of YouTrack 2020.2 which comes with a built-in Knowledge Base! Now you can build a public knowledge base and keep internal documentation right inside YouTrack, alongside your tasks and projects. YouTrack can keep your team’s collective knowledge together in one place. Other enhancements for project administrators include field type conversions and the ability to set a default visibility group for your projects. For better cross-te

Read this post in other languages:     We are happy to release YouTrack 2020.1! And now, there is a way to express this happiness, and many other emotions, with emoji reactions. 😀 What’s more, you won’t miss any reactions thanks to reaction notifications we’ve introduced. In other enhancements, in-context translation right from the user interface is now available for anyone who wants to contribute to our community-based language localizations. YouTrack 2020.1 also adds new custom fields settings for administrators to support some tricky use cases without writing workflows and i

In YouTrack 2019.1, we introduced a redesigned version of the Issues List as an experimental feature. Thanks to your feedback we think we’ve learned all the pain points. Today we want to share with you some details on how we work on experimental features, and on the new issue list as a specific example. (more…)

We as users have to deal with different tools every day. The tools may have bugs or be missing a feature we desperately want to have in it. There are different ways users can report these issues. Sometimes we need to send the companies an email, other times we should fill out a form on their website, or if we want to report an issue a little less privately, we can always use social media, which we might scare the developers of the application into getting our issue solved a little bit quicker? But is there a better way? In our opinion, there is. They are what’s known as Public issue tracker

Every now and then the question as to whether it is possible to store data between workflow executions comes up. For example, when a team lead wants to show an informational message to the entire team, once to each person. The most straightforward way to achieve this would be to add a flag "hasSeenTheMessage" to each user account. However, YouTrack doesn't allow you to define properties like this via the workflow, though we are planning to support such use-cases in some form or another in the future. In the meantime, I want to show you how to work around this problem using the existing work