iZepto Blog

Congratulations to CrashedSnow for suggesting integrating with Jira from Atlassian.  Rather than announce we are going to do something, this time we have held back and actually done the work already!

So, feel free to go to the Administration tab and see the new link to add a Jira Connector.  You can link a project in iZepto with a project in a Jira instance and get all issues created in Jira automatically created as tasks in iZepto!

The main benefit of this change is reduced overhead in task creation in iZepto.

Please note that all Jira Connectors are synchronised every 15 minutes so you won’t see them straight away, but you will see them fairly quickly.  If you are not seeing them, please ensure that your Jira instance is publicly visible, that the XML-RPC API is enabled and that your user id and password are valid.

For your own peace of mind we recommend that you create a special read-only privilege user in Jira.  We don’t need to do any updates to Jira, so making a special low privilege user would be a good idea from a security perspective.  Of course we encrypt your password in our system but you can never be too careful

Congratulations to Anibal for winning our weekly prize of an iPod Nano for best feedback. Anibal provided some great feedback about how it would be great if he could allow his clients to see time entries and report in a read-only way.  He believes this would help clients to manage their own budgets as they would be on top of how many hours are being logged when they are being billed by the hour.
So in response,  here is what we plan to do:
Short Term - this week
We think the existing Dashboard functionality of getting a Watch emailed to you is a good start.  If you have a watch for hours for a particular project, why not email this to your clients directly each day?  So, we will be providing the ability for you to enter in additional email addresses for a Watch. Nice and simple, and for most cases might be enough to keep your client in the loop.
Long Term - By the end of January 
In the longer term, we are going to build functionality such that you can add a new type of user to your company - external reporters.  These users would be added to your company with only privilege to report, and only for Projects that you specify.  They would be able to log in and see the Reporting and Dashboard pages.   They can run reports, save reports they like and add watches on their reports.  They can set up their own emails, etc.
We hope that this functionality will be helpful to many people.So congratulations again to Anibal, we will be contacting you soon to arrange delivery of your shiny new iPod Nano.
Keep the feedback coming, and you too could share in the prizes. 

Here at iZepto we are hungry for your feedback. That’s why we have decided to offer a little incentive. We are going to be giving away an iPod Nano to the user who submits the best feedback each week.Winners will be announced here on the blog and we will be in touch to arrange delivery to you wherever you are.So, click that feedback link in the footer often and send us some feedback. In case you didn’t know, we even take you back to the page you were on after you submit the feedback so it won’t even interrupt you very much.Thanks in advance and looking forward to seeing happy iZepto users playing with their new Nano’s!