Traction

I’ve made some small updates to Traction — including some icons! Another major feature I’ve added is the ability to interact with ticket severity.

Sadly, I seem to have lost the signing certificate I used to create the application. That means that this version won’t be able to be installed as an update. If you already have Traction, you’ll have to manually download and install it, and  when it tries to install you’ll get an error message saying that you need to install it in a different location. You can either install it in a different location, or uninstall your existing Traction version and then install 1.0.5.

It has recently come to my attention that several plugins interfere with the XML-RPC plugin — most notably the AccountManagement plugin. If you’re having problems getting Traction to login or load tickets checkout the XML-RPC troubleshooting page to see if there are any known conflicts with your config.

Update 2: The screen shot gallery is sane again. With that I think the site is basically back to the way it was.

Update: I was able to retrieve most of my old data so the site is looking more and more like its old self. The screen shots are a bit off at the moment, but I’m working on it.

The EffectiveUI website underwent an overhaul awhile back and all of my Traction pages were lost. I’ve been holding out to try to get my old content back, but at this point I guess its time to just move on. I have the about page and downloads page back up, so at least the core is back. My next priority is getting the install help page back up, then the screen shots. In the meantime, thanks for visiting and thanks for your interest. Please leave a comment or visit the contact page if you have questions or comments.

Traction is an Open Source frontend to the ticket tracking service Trac. Traction is written in AIR and uses Adobe Flex. Using Traction you can interact with your Trac tickets real time — in line edting, tabbing between fields, and filtering. This makes the process of organizing and modifying tickets far easier than the HTML interface offered on the web. Also, Traction caches your tickets locally so you only have to update new tickets every time you login, which makes the experience that much faster. You can also use Traction to create new tickets and track user “scores” which are calculated based on the priority of tickets closed by each user.

This blog will be used to follow the progress of Traction. If you are interested in contributing to Traction contact me via email. Visit the download page for links to the latest binary and the URL of the git repository.