How-To's

Lots of development, marketing, product, and project teams are using YouTrack to deliver great products. This requires an effective process for managing product requirements. The typical process involves creating user stories and epics, using a project overview with Gantt charts, tracking feature requests publicly and internally, fixing bugs, and collaborating with other teams on issues. Now, there is another way. You can manage product requirements right in Knowledge Base, using YouTrack to create, manage, and track your product requirements documentation. Let’s see how this works! (more&hel

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

We would like to address our YouTrack InCloud customers who are using email notifications. (more…)

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

I'm happy to announce that after almost a year-long break I'm back with the "Make It Workflow" series. Back then, we published a whole load of posts dedicated to talking you through various YouTrack usage scenarios and how to set up the workflows for them. Through this series so far, we’ve covered topics such as restricting issue visibility, generating time reports, and enhancing mailbox integration. You are welcome to check out the “Make it Workflow” series if you haven't done so already. We are reviving Make it Workflow today with our next installment in the series: updating issues. You may

Whether you work on multiple projects or just one, it becomes a major problem to find a good way to track everything in one place. YouTrack gives you an overview of your projects, boards, and all your personal activities. Currently, your dashboard supports 4 default widgets and a bunch of custom widgets created by the community. Today I’ll give you some tips on how to get the most out of the YouTrack dashboard. In this blog post, I’ll try to cover useful widgets to track your personal activities, but that is not to say that some of these tips might not also be useful for any agile team.