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  1. Introduction to the Issuetrak Deployment Utility (IDU)

    The Issuetrak Deployment Utility (IDU) is the command line utility for deploying Issuetrak. The IDU is an interactive deployment tool designed to provide maximum power and flexibility for the system administrator that needs fine control over how Iss...
  2. Visibility Controls Best Practices

    Controlling visibility to an issue allows you to control who can view an issue in Issuetrak. Many implementations require the ability to control whether a user can see certain issues. We can do this by using a combination of entities (organizations ...
  3. Best Practices - Time Zone Adjustment in the Cloud

    Issuetrak’s cloud services provide server hosting configured to specific time zones: U.S.-based cloud servers operate on Eastern Time (GMT-5). Canadian cloud servers use Canada Standard Time (GMT-5), which does not observe Daylight ...
  4. About Issue Attachments

    Attachments are files that can be uploaded to various areas in Issuetrak, including issues. This feature allows you to add supporting information to issues and knowledge base articles, as well as other areas of the product. This article mainly conce...
  5. Issue Updates

    Understanding the anatomy of an issue and being knowledgeable about the updates that can be made are essential for effective issue management in Issuetrak. This table combines a description of each type of update along with other practical informati...
  6. Implementing Rate Limiting via IIS

    Public-facing sites are exposed to DoS attacks. If your Issuetrak site is public-facing, then you might want to mitigate the potential impact of such attacks by implementing rate limiting.  Issuetrak's deployment tools support deploying a site ...
  7. About Solutions

    Solutions are text templates you create for closing issues. They allow you to pre-define appropriate answers, steps, or statements that address common questions, issues, and requests. While your Agents may still change or add information once...
  8. About Departments

    Departments allow you to organize users based on the functional units they serve within your Organization, such as Accounting, Marketing, IT, etc. More importantly, Departments add another layer to your system’s data filtering options and a whole ...
  9. Working with the Task Manager

    Task Manager is the mechanism for adding and maintaining Tasks and Task Groups in an issue, Scheduled Issue , or Issue Template . The Task Manager is also used to build out workflows with process options that change issue values or trigger addit...
  10. Getting Started in Issuetrak

    Introduction Issuetrak is designed with a variety of configuration and customization options that allow you to shape its user interface according to your current operation and user base. It is also designed for long-term scalability so th...