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==Capabilities==
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Revision as of 13:41, 12 September 2012

Module overview

This module provides a light but full featured ticket tracker within a Moodle environment. This tracker could be used by administrators to collect issues from Moodle end users, or may be as a real bug tracking tool for project oriented activities.

Recently has the semantics of the string being reviewed to allow a more general scope use of the tracker, whenever the need of "service ticketting" appears.

The internal tracker module of Moodle have following features :

Tracker configuration

  • Setting up ticket form elements
  • File attachment fields available

Ticket management

  • Collecting tickets
  • Assigning tickets to assignees
  • Status workflow (posted, opened, working, testing, resolved, blocked, abandonned, transfered).
  • Suscribing to ticket's notifications
  • Notifying changes to suscribers
  • Complete personal management of notifications and subscriptions
  • Summary of capabilities and owned tickets
  • Separating concluded tickets (resolved, abandonned, transferred) from working tickets (posted, working, blocked)
  • Ticket dependancy chaining
  • Messaging threads (globally disablable) attached to tickets

Priority related features

  • Managing ticket priority (controls are active when choosing priority as ordering criteria)
  • Asking for priority raise from the owner of the ticket

Moodle Network functions

  • Moodle Network across cascading from a tracker to a remote tracker (local cascade works either within the same Moodle instance).

Local Roles Management

Tracker has its own internal user profiles, that will merely separate population into:

  • Administrators: will be allowed to change the form structure and all settigns of the tracker instance
  • Resolvers: are allowed to change the ticket status and thus closing or resolving tickets. They also can assign tickets to developers.
  • Developers: usually people that will handle the ticket and search for a solution.
  • Requirers: any user able to post a ticket.

Internal tracker roles are bound to Moodle roles through tracker specific capabilities. See the tracker capabilities documentation beneath for more information.

Screens

Common user screens

  • Bug recollection form
  • Viewing bug list
    • Exploring bug list (non manager mode)
    • Searching a bug
    • Viewing a bug description
  • User profile, stats and shortcuts
    • My preferences : choosing on which events to be notified
    • My watches : managing which bug entries I receive notifications from
    • My searches : managing stored search queries for my own

Resolver screens

  • Viewing bug list
    • Exploring bug list (manager mode)
    • Editing a bug entry

Administrator screens

  • Activity summary
  • Managing bug tracking form elements
  • Configuring tracker local or remote cascade

Capabilities

Capabilities for Tracker module