Coming soon - Build a Zapier integration on Orangescrum

Hello Orangescrummers! We are just one step away from our mega release. Yes, we have made the final push to make the Zapier Integration available for our users.

We’ve been working hard to offer the best service possible, and have been very lucky to have such great customers who have been so supportive.

We’ve got some new updates coming your way! And each of these updates is to make Orangescrum more convenient and bring more simplicity to your project.

Zapier integration is the most awaited and on-demand feature that has been our development pipeline for the least period of time.

Before we make the final release, here we are sharing the beneficial usage of Zapier.

What Is Zapier

Zapier is a simple automation app that connects thousands of apps, so you can automate your business without writing a single line of code.

With Zapier, you can connect over 1,300 business tools without having to have any coding knowledge. In just a few clicks, you can integrate two applications that work together.

With the help of this versatile, flexible, and easy-to-use software, you can boost the efficiency of your business in no time!

Why Use Zapier

How would you like to cut your manual work in half or completely eliminate it? That’s what an automated workflow can do for you.

Zapier is an application that integrates with thousands of other apps. So, you can easily connect your favorite tools to your Orangescrum account!

Automation means your business is going to run so much more smoothly. But what does it mean, and how will it affect you?

The Benefits Of Using Zapier

You can automate your day-to-day processes to save time and boost efficiency with the Zapier app.

You just need to set up a workflow once and it will continue to work as long as you need it.

And if you change software platforms, you can create a new Zap and still track your information.

By using the Zapier application you can:

• Save your time

• Scale your business

• Streamline your onboarding

• Automate your business process

• and many more

Zapier And Orangescrum

Zapier is an action automation cloud tool that can help you streamline your work by allowing you to create customizable actions or zaps.

It’s a way of freeing yourself from manual data input and taking advantage of the Zapier platform.

In other words, you can integrate Orangescrum with any other app or service that supports Zapier for a faster workflow.

With our first release, we have planned to release three supported triggers and actions each for this integration module.

Trigger Zaps:

Create New Project – By using this zap, users can create a new project within the connected application from Orangescrum.

Create new Task – By using this zap, users can create new tasks within the connected application underneath a selected project from Orangescrum.

Invite Users – By using this zap, users can invite users to join the connected application from Orangescrum.

Action Zap:

Create New Project – By using this zap, users can create a new project within Orangeswcrum from the connected application.

Create new Task – By using this zap, users can create new tasks within Orangeswcrum from the connected application underneath a selected project

Invite Users –  By using this zap, users can invite users to join Orangescrum from the connected application.

And with the time being, we will release more Zaps in this integration module.

What’s More

Beyond the Zapier integration release other two more product updates are in our pipeline.

GitHub Integration

The new integration feature will be available in Orangescrum. With it, you can view your development code repositories, branches, code pull-push requests, and the status of each one under a task.

SSO Integration

Now, you can enjoy the modern digital experience of seamless SSO. That means no more logging in and out, so you can focus on what matters most!

Conclusion

We’re as excited as you are about the Zapier integration in Orangescrum, and we can’t wait to see how it goes.

So, let’s hope for the best and cheers until it arrives.

Blog Source: Coming Soon: Zapier Integration in Orangescrum

New Release: Bug and Issue Tracking Reports

Hello Orangescrummers! Recently we have released the Bug & Issue tracking feature underneath our product release. And this has been the center of attention for our tool since its release.

Many customers have come up with various comments and the overall response is encouraging for us.

Anyhow, this time we have come with another update underneath the Bug & Tracking feature. The “Bug Reporting”.

Let’s have a look at it in detail.

Update: Bug Reporting

On our previous release note, we have shown how you can add bug details, and how you can monitor the progress.

Now we have added a dedicated Bug Report dashboard that shows the bugs and their status.

To find this Bug report, go to the “Task Analysis Reports” section under the “All Report” (Report) page.

We have divided the reporting view into 3 sections.

• Bug Trend Chart

• Bug Status chart

• Bug Severity

All these sections provide the real-time analytical data of any selected project.

Bug Trend Chart

This section provides the daily-wise report stats for cumulative Opened Bugs, cumulative Closed Bugs, Total active bug trends.

Bug Status Chart

Users can view the total number of New Bug, In-Progres, and Closed bug values on respective dates.

Once the team resolves any new bugs, the total new bug value will be reduced instantly.

Bug Severity

This section provides the bug severity values. In case of a bunch of new bugs added to the bug management system, this section categorizes the bug severity values. So, you can set priority to act against each bug.

Orangescrum offers a free two-week trial, so what are you waiting for? Upgrade your bug reporting and give it a go!

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Product Update: Bug & Issue Tracking

Hello Orangescrummers! As per our commitment here we come with our latest product update. However, we have released the Bug & Issue Tracking feature.

Orangescrum is continuously bringing new updates that make it easier for you to manage your projects. We’ve got some major ones for you this time!

We’re always working on new updates to make Orangescrum even more convenient and bring you a great user experience. In our last update, we released the Profitability Report. And this time, we have some major updates for you!

Product Update: Bug & Issue Tracking

A bug is often a piece of code that does not work as expected. It may be that a feature or a specification supposed to enable a certain functionality has been coded incorrectly.

As a software engineer, it is your responsibility to identify and document these bugs so that they can be fixed and quality products can be delivered.

Bug tracking is one of the important aspects of a software development lifecycle to deliver quality products.

So, Having a robust defect management process improves the quality of software, which in turn improves the sustainability of the organization.

It also helps you to stay ahead of your competition, so you can book higher profits.

With Orangescrum Bug & Issue Tracking feature you can add every detail at your ongoing development projects.

To add bug details, just click on Bug Tracking at the left menu at Orangescrum. And click on “Create Bug”.

A Guide to Create a Bug Details in Orangescrum

1. Select Project – Select the project from the drop-down where you found the bug.

2. Select Task – Select the related task of that project at where you found the bug.

3. Bug Name – Name your Bug.

4. Select the Bug-type – The founded issue can be a bug, or a required improvement, or might be a query. So add your bug type accordingly.

5. Select Bug Severity – Select the Bug Severity.

6. Reported by – Select the user who has reported the bug.

7. Bug Detection Phase – In case the task is in the development phase or in the designing phase, Add the bug detection phase accordingly.

8. Bug Category – Select the Bug Category.

9. Select Client – Select if the Client has reported this bug or not.

10. The Bug Origin – Put the origin of this bug, as it could be from Designing origin, or Development origin, etc.

11. Resolution – Users need to add the required resolution for the bug.

12. Bug Owner – You can select a user as bug owner where the selected user is able to monitor all bug handling activities.

13. Due Date – Add the estimated due date to resolve the bug issue.

14. Environment – Select the bug environment like operating system, browser, device, etc.

15. Impacted Area – Add the details where the found bug has made the maximum impact.

16. Description – Add the detailed bug information to the description field.

17. Attachment – Add the bug-related attachments.

The Bug List Page:

Here the user can able to find the Detected Bug List as it shows bug name, Issue type, the bug severity, and the Status (Closed, In-Progress or Yet to start).

So the user would have a clear view of bug status for all projects with a single dashboard.

The Bug Details Page

On the bug detail page, the users are able to see all related information added to the bug.

Along with the bug details, the user can also find the bug handling activities in the Activity History section.

Bug List In Task Detail Page

Users can also see the bug list on the associated bug listing page.

 

The bug list can be found under the “Bugs” tab on the task detail page. Users can see the bug status as well as create new bugs on this page also.

Let’s Come To The Field Customization Part

As we mentioned before, you can customize the bug details fields for hassle-free monitoring.

Just go to the Bug Management page under the project setting at the right top menu.

Here you can find the fields to customize options at each tab.

You can create new fields and enable them and delete them instantly.

User Note: You can not delete any fields if they are in any Bug Details.

Coming Soon

1. Zapier Integration

Zapier integration will let you connect to other applications so you can share your project task information based on when something happens.

2. GitHub Integration

Github Integration feature is already available in Orangescrum. With a new enhancement now you can see your development code repositories, branches, code pull-push request, and their status under a task.

3. SSO Integration

SSO integration will be another authentication experience for Orangescrum users. Users now can enjoy a modern digital experience as repeated logins are no longer required.

Conclusion

Bug tracking can be used in each and every stage of the development process, thus helping developers to be constant, be highly productive.

Adequate bug tracking processes safeguard the interests of the parties involved and increase the likelihood that the project will meet the scope established in the agreement.

In the end, you deliver what was exactly requested. Customers receive what they exactly wanted and both of these happen ON-TIME and WITHIN BUDGET!

Blog Source: Bug & Issue Tracking Released within Orangescrum

Product Update: Profitable Report, Advance Custom Fields, and Week Number

Hello Orangescrummers! It is always exciting to add new features to your product. And more so when that feature is one that your customers desperately want – “Profitable Report”!

We have been very cognizant of our customers’ needs and what would be best for them.

Every time we come up with new updates, it’s always to make Orangescrum more convenient and bring more simplicity to your project. This time, we’ve got some major updates for you!

All the following updates are focused to make Orangescrum more convenient and bring more simplicity to your project.

What’s New?

• Profitable Report

• Advanced Custom Fields

• Week Number at Time Sheet

Project Profitable Report

We had recently released the Project Budget & Cost feature for our users. Users can add the project budget, Default Rate (Hourly Rate) at the time of creating the project.

And the project admins also can define the role-based cost for the company and role-based cost to clients.

And with the Profitability report, now the project admin can see the real-time cost status report that defines if the company getting profits or it overlapping the project budget.

To find this report you need to navigate to the All Report >> Time & Resource Report.

There are two reporting modules available on this Profitability Reporting Dashboard.

• Profit report for fixed budget project

• Profit report for hourly billing projects

By hovering on the graphical status bar, you can able to find the Budget Value, Billable Cost and Profit Value respectively of the Project.

The Shown profit value is calculated by:

Total Budget Value – Billable Cost = Profit Value

By Scrolling down from the visual graph view, you can see Project wise profit value in a list view.

This report provides Project Name, Fixed Budget Value, Cost to Client Value, Cost to company Value, Net Profit, and Profit Margin in %.

For fixed budget projects, the profit value is calculated by:

Total Budget Value – Cost to Company = Profit Value

For hourly billing projects, the profit value is calculated by:

Cost to Client – Cost to Company = Profit Value

This profitable report will help Project Administrators and Managers to know the project’s profit margin in a single glance.

Advanced Custom Fields

As like Project Profitable Report, this is the Update version 2.0 for Custom Fields.

A user must have to enable the Advanced Custom Fields at Project Setting >> Custom Fields.

This time the fields are pre-defined and you just need to select the fields name as per your requirement.

After enabling the Advanced Custom Fields option, users can be able to fields values as per each task.

The advanced fields define:

Actual Completion Date – When a task is closed, the closed date will be marked as the Actual Completion Date.

Duration of Task –  It shows the remaining durations against the actual completion date.

Variations –  This field shows if there is any variation compared to the duration of the task. Whether the task is completed early or after the duration of the task.

Time Balance Remaining – This value shows the remaining days or remaining hours (when it is below 1 day) against the due date.

Week Number At Time Sheet

This is an on-demand feature that has been requested by many of our customers.

At the user’s weekly timesheet, we have added the week number which would help project managers to execute their project planning effectively.

This Week Number becomes more effective when project managers want to plan any requiring task for a project.

Coming Soon

There are 4 major product updates are at the pipeline. And we will release them very soon.

1. Bug & Issue Tracker

We are planning to release Bug & Issue Tracking feature soon to simplify your bug monitoring process.

2. Zapier Integration

Now you can integrate with your favorite applications using Zapier. It will let you connect with other applications to share your project task information based on triggering action.

3. GitHub Integration

Orangescrum does have already the GitHub integration feature, however with a new enhancement now you can see your development code repositories, branches, code pull-push request, and their status under a task.

 

4. SSO Integration

We are adding another seamless authentication experience using SSO login. So, customers can enjoy a modern digital experience as repeated logins are no longer required.

Conclusion

Implementing profitable reports and advanced custom fields in your project management software can make your processes much more efficient, useful, and structured. The best part is that it doesn’t take long to do!

Now, your project management has never been easier. Get insights into what needs to happen next and better track all of your tasks in one place.

Blog Resource: Product Update: Profitable Report, Advance Custom Fields, and Week Number