Frequently asked questions
General
Q. Is BugNET free?
A. Yes, BugNET is open source licensed under the GNU GPL license. You are free to use it to manage commercially built programs or modify BugNETs source code for internal use. Any derivitive works from BugNET itself must fall under the GPL license as well. Although it is not required to share your code changes to the public, if you feel your changes would benefit the community I urge you to share them. Please review the GPL license for further details.
Q. How do I change the date format?
A. Change the culture in the web.config file to the desired culture date format:
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<globalization culture="en-US" uiCulture="en" requestEncoding="UTF-8"
responseEncoding="UTF-8" fileEncoding="UTF-8" />
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Q. My users are always having to log back into the application. How can I fix this?
A. The default timeout for session in ASP.NET 2.0 is 30 minutes. You can configure the length of the timeout by editing the web.config file with code below setting the timeout value in minutes.
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<!--
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Authentication Settings
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<authentication mode="Forms">
<forms name="BugNET" loginUrl="~/Default.aspx" timeout="120"/>
</authentication>
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Development
Q. I get an error "BugNET_WAP is unavailable" when opening the solution in Visual Studio?
A: This error occurs when you have not installed one of the pre-requisites. Please refer to the documentation on Compiling BugNET to make sure that you have all the required software components installed.