The BugNET FAQ

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" />

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>

Q. How do I use the Status field and how does a bug flow through the system?

A. Here is probably the most straight forward way to use the Status field correctly in the system.

* Open - New Issue (untouched)
* In-Progress - Now ready to work on (or it did not pass QA)
* Resolved - Set resolution.
* Closed - Deployed to production.

In 0.8 all workflow has been stripped from BugNET so that it does not impose restrictions on how you would like to work.

Only closed issues will show up on the change log.

Q. How do I change the amount of issues that show per page on the issue list?

A. Click your username in the top left hand corner of the application. Then select the customize option in the menu on the right.  Under the Issue List heading, change the Amount of Items drop down to the desired number of issues you would like to see on the issue list.

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.