XStudio 1.5: Custom fields

One of the major addition to 1.5 will be the abilty to customize the details forms for the requirements, specifications, test cases and bugs.

If you have the appropriate rights, adding a new custom field will be easy enough:

Different types of fields will be available:

• integer (text field)
• string (text field)
  
• boolean (checkbox)
• formatted tring (wiki-style field) - see example above
• drop-down menu (combo box)

The user will have the possibility to

• select a position where to insert its custom field
• specify if the field is mandatory or not
• specify a default value
• list all of the possible values (in case of the drop-down menu)
  

The list of custom fields for one type of object will be available on the root node of its corresponding tree and it will look like:


With those example settings, the details tab of a bug would look like:


Note: this feature will be probably delivered through a commercial plugin (very cheap - around 30€ per user). It will be also delivered freely to all the users who have formerly (or are going to) contracted a support license.

XStudio 1.5: Images and URLs in formatted text widgets

One feature that has been requested by many customers was the possibility to embed images and anchors in formatted text fields. This will be possible in 1.5.
Images are physically stored in the database so that the user does not have to worry about maintaining an external repository.

The GUI is very simple and is as presented below:


To embed an image, just click the "image" button and select an image on your hard-disk:


The wiki tags for Images and anchors are the following:


For images, the name of the image is automatically prefixed with a unique id corresponding to the id of the image file in the database.

When previewing a formatted text embedding an image, the image will be of course rendered. The image is also rendered in reports.