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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. Issue Types - A Guide from Planning to Implementation

    Introduction Issuetrak is an incredibly configurable and flexible tool, allowing you to customize it to fit various business models. While configuring Issuetrak may initially appear challenging, we are here to guide you through every step of ...
  3. IDU Verb Documentation

    Introduction to IDU Verbs In order for the IDU to perform useful work, we need to tell it what to do. This is accomplished through the use of verbs . Only one verb may be specified at runtime. Each verb has its own set of parameters that...
  4. How to Integrate Power BI with Issuetrak

    It is possible to use the Scheduled Reports feature to send a Scheduled Report in CSV format to an email account that is monitored by Microsoft OneDrive. Power BI can then be connected with OneDrive to pull your reports and then process them in any ...
  5. 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 ...
  6. About Classes

    Issue Classes help to provide structure for capturing and reporting issue-related information. This mechanism allows users to select which Class of issues they want to see on their Dashboard, which makes it easier to change their overall view of ope...
  7. About Locations and Regions

    Locations and Regions reflect physical user, issue, and asset locations. Regions generally define a larger area, while Locations are smaller entities within a Region. A Region might be defined as a state and a corresponding Location within that ...
  8. About Printing Notes

    We've built into Issuetrak the ability to print the content of the description field and individual notes within each issue. This can be useful for the purpose of sending legacy (ie. snail) mail on your own letterhead to your customers to acknowledg...
  9. Post-Deployment Configuration

    Now that your site is deployed, you have the opportunity to do some post-deployment configuration of the site. All of the steps below are optional, and you will need to use your best judgement on whether following them will benefit you. You can...
  10. About the Custom Record Table

    The Custom Record Table contains records with up to 50 text fields of reference information that can be used to associate just about anything to an issue, such as contact records, parts, contracts, contractors, customers, or rooms. Each field ca...