New ProjectLocker Lite Trac Features

Posted by C. G. Brown Sat, 26 Apr 2008 16:12:00 GMT

 We've made several additions to ProjectLocker Lite Trac recently to improve your experience.  Here are some of the new features:

Plugins

We've installed the following plugins:

• XML-RPC (http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/XmlRpcPlugin)
• Tags (http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/TagsPlugin)
• Discussions (http://www.trac-hacks.org/wiki/DiscussionPlugin)

If there are other plugins that you think you and other customers may find useful, file a ticket with us and we'll install them, pending a security review and making sure they don't cause any issues.  You can activate plugins that we have installed by going to the Admin menu in Trac itself.  

Improved Subversion-Trac Interaction

We've installed the trac-contrib commit hook that allows you to cause action to occur on Trac tickets.  If you use the right syntax, you can make commit messages leave comments on Trac tickets or even mark tickets as fixed just by doing a Subversion commit.  The syntax is described in detail in the Support FAQ.

Trac Upgrade via Web

Installation of some plugins requires an upgrade of your Trac environment.  After some customer feedback, we have added a link to run trac-admin upgrade from ProjectLocker Portal, so after installing the Tags or Discussions plugin, if your Trac instance indicates that it needs an upgrade, go to your Trac Service Properties for your project and click "Run trac-admin Upgrade". Your instance will upgrade itself on the spot and you can proceed with your work. 

As always, we welcome your feedback on how we can make our service more useful for you.

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Downloadable Backups are Here!

Posted by C. G. Brown Wed, 27 Feb 2008 18:57:00 GMT

While we take every precaution to make sure customer data is backed up and protected, our ProjectLocker Lite customers have been clamoring for the ability to download Subversion backups and Trac backups, similar to the Archival service for ProjectLocker Enterprise.  The ability to take on-demand backups is now here.  For just $2.50 per project per backup, you can create a backup accessible in ProjectLocker Portal and downloadable for 30 days.  You can access this via the Backups section in ProjectLocker Portal, visible to all account administrators.

We are open to suggestions for features and improvements to this service.  We're trying to provide as many services and features as we can while keeping the prices low, but we'd love to hear your thoughts.

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