I don’t know about you but, I spend a lot of my time in the MantisHub ‘View Issues’ page when I want to find the issue or issues I need. ‘My View’ dashboard is great for showing me what I need to prioritize and what’s going on at the moment. But when it comes to getting the whole picture, the background, requirements and other related information, I jump onto the View Issues page. I’ve added custom fields to my projects and set them to appear in my filter as a search field. I extensively use tags to help me find what I need. And my saved filters are invaluable. I have a very special relationship with my MantisHub filter so I was super excited to see the new improvements.
The latest MantisBT updates provide a more streamlined look, improved UI as well as providing some added functionality. I love that I can now collapse my filter and get a shortcut to my usual go-to’s, my free text search, filter reset or my saved filters. It gives a little more room for my list of issues and looks that little bit leaner.
Other handy recent additions include:
- checking and unchecking multiple issues using my shift key so I can narrow down my filtered list even further for printing or exporting.
- setting my temporary filters and permalinks as persistent. That means if I navigate away from that filter it doesn’t disappear on me. I can always bring it up again just by pressing the back button.
But my favourite new feature by far is that I can now run Summary reports and Issue trends on my filtered issues!! Yay!! (MantisBT nerd alert!).
If you head directly to the Summary tab you get a great range of data and statistics. You can also install the Graphs plugin to get graphic representations of your data. Graphs are presented by a variety of variables (developer, status, priority etc) and are great for pasting into your reports. However, the statistics in the Summary page are applied to all your issues within your MantisHub, filterable only by your project selector to limit results to a single project if needed.
With these new updates, you can now run these stats on your specific filter results! So, sort your issues down to a category, reporter, a sub-set of projects, date created or updated… version information, custom field values or any combination of these AND run reports and graphs on only that information!! Are you excited yet!!??
Well, if that didn’t do it for you I don’t know what will. For me, this has made things that much more efficient when evaluating various aspects of my MantisHub issues. I can get answers to all sorts of questions like what is the average resolution time for a specific category? OR for tickets created in this week, who has worked on the most tickets? OR which of our non-resolved issues created last month has been open the longest? You can always export to Excel or CSV to play even more with your issue data or utilize our API to integrate with a dedicated reporting tool but this might save you a step or two.
If you aren’t as yet familiar with your Mantis filter you should absolutely become acquainted. Check out these video tutorials on using your MantisHub filter and on saving and sharing your filters. And you can always read up on the KB articles or search the support page and documentation for any other questions you have.
Enjoy your new, buff filter! Don’t forget to follow this blog and follow @mantishub on twitter for all the latest MantisHub updates. Til next time!
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