How to Hide Tabs

With our latest release, La Jolla 4.5, we introduce the concept of hiding tabs.

This feature is useful because you can now control which Lighthouse modules your users see. Lighthouse is a robust product and you may not use every tool, so now you can display only the tabs your team uses. This can be done for your entire account or on a per-project or role basis.

You can hide Account and Project level tabs simply by modifying user roles.

To hide Account Tabs:

1. Go to Account > Security > Account Roles

2. Pick the role you want to hide tabs

3. Then either select or deselect the tabs your users can see.



To Hide Project Tabs:

1. Go to 'your project name' > Resources > Roles

2. Pick the role you want to hide tabs

3. Then either select or deselect the tabs your users can see.



That's really about it. Questions?

New Lighthouse Release

We are pleased to announce a new release of Lighthouse. Our guys have worked very hard at this new version as it provides a number of usability and performance improvements.

The following customer issues were addressed:

1. Hide tabs
2. Report on Object History in Custom Reports
3. Improved email notification
4. Custom colors (choose from Winterfresh, Vibrant or make your own!)
5. Ability to email standard and custom reports to other Lighthouse Account users.
6. Exporting Custom Reports to Microsoft Word
7. Update email notifications to html
8. Many Custom Report upgrades, including sorting and performance

Artifact Unveils “One-Click Traceability,” a Virtual Appliance, and Three New Lighthouse Editions

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Artifact Software Inc. Newsletter

Here Comes La Jolla!
November 2007
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In this issue...

Lighthouse Upgrade Details

New Features & Improvements

Recently Added & Coming Soon

We're pleased to announce that our next Lighthouse version, La Jolla, will deploy this coming Sunday at 9 PM EST. Read below for more upgrade details and feature news.

Lighthouse Upgrade Details ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lighthouse will be unavailable on Sunday, November 11 from 9 PM EST to 11 PM EST. You will not be able to log in to Lighthouse during the upgrade, so please plan accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience the upgrade might cause. Please check our forum for additional service updates.

New Features and Improvements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The La Jolla release takes traceability to an entirely new level with our OneClick conversion. Managing your project activities is easier than ever with our new Project Activity dashboards. Read below for details on these and other new features in our La Jolla release. OneClick Conversion Lighthouse makes traceability simple with OneClick. Take all of your ... Requirements and automatically create Test Cases Change Requests and automatically create Requirements Change Requests and automatically create Defects Defects and automatically create Change Requests Defects and automatically create Test Cases Issues and automatically create Defects Issues and automatically create Change Requests Test Cases and automatically create Requirements Read more about this here. Project Activity Dashboards La Jolla includes two new dashboards that make project management easier than ever. These real-time dashboards highlight all changed project activities over your choice of time frames. Instantly get a snapshot view of all changes to requirements, defects, test cases and more, all in real-time. You can now quickly and easily see everything that's changed in your project during the given time period. No more searching through emails, IM sessions or multiple tools. Lighthouse Project Activity Dashboards provide the key data you need so you can focus on leading your project. Requirement Filters With our new filters, you can quickly view requirements based on any criteria. Interested in finding requirements that have defects? Easy. Want to know which requirements are missing tests? No problem. You can filter requirements by status, resource, release, test status, or any custom field you added. Super User Finally! Add a user once, use everywhere. Create a new user, provide that user with Administrator Rights, and that user is automatically added to every project in your account. The Super User role makes it easy to provide total access to your key project managers and executives without having to manually add them to each project, one-at-a-time. Custom Reports Our Custom Reports module is going through a number of feature enhancements, making it easier than ever to create reports on any data within Lighthouse. With La Jolla, we've added a number of new, reportable fields, including 'Modified Date', 'Test Type', 'Requirements Type', and 'Timesheet Notes'. Stay tuned for even more enhancements in upcoming releases. If you need assistance with Custom Reports, email support@artifactsoftware.com to schedule a personalized Custom Report session and see for yourself what you can accomplish.

Recently Added & Coming Soon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In case you haven't logged into Lighthouse recently, here are some of the recent upgrades as well as a list of upcoming features. Let us know if you want more details! Cozumel (released summer 2007) Custom Fields: This feature lets you fully customize existing Lighthouse data elements or add your own fields. This means you can easily adapt your terminology and methodology to Lighthouse. Specifically: Change the name of any data field labels Add new data values to any of the existing fields Create new fields Modify the layout Baltimore (late November 2007) Lighthouse Virtual Appliance: For those companies wanting to run Lighthouse inside their corporate network, the Lighthouse VA will be released later this month. My Activities Dashboard: Each user get's a personalized dashboard, giving them a simple view into all items (requirements, defects, test cases, ...) assigned to him/her. Vegas (late December 2007) Custom Reports Enhancements: Custom Reports is being overhauled to include many of the enhancements you've requested. Stay tuned for more information regarding this release. Improved Dashboards: Significant improvements are being made to dashboard performance. Rome (scheduled for early 2008) Integrated Project Planning: Project Planning is being overhauled as well to include everything you need to create, manage and maintain your Project Plans directly within Lighthouse, meaning you never have to use Microsoft Project again. Of course, we'll support MS Project if you want to continue using it!

Lighthouse is being upgraded

Lighthouse Upgrade ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lighthouse will be unavailable on Sunday, May 20th starting at 8am US Eastern, and we anticipate the service to be down for ~8 hours (to accommodate for the unknown!). You will not be able to log in to Lighthouse during the upgrade, so please plan accordingly. We apologize for any inconvenience the upgrade might cause. Please check our forum for service updates on Sunday afternoon.

New Features and Improvements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Our new release contains many new features and improvements, including: New User Interface Our new UI improves the use of 'real estate'. No more scrolling left to right! We've added a bunch of new features (including the ability to 'hide' the menus') but rest assured, we did not remove any existing functionality. Improved Performance Our new caching algorithm will provide a significant improvement in the load time. Lighthouse modules and objects will load faster (except for the first time you log in, when the initial cache occurs - not much we can do about that one). 160 Defects, 9 Change Requests completed We fixed a lot of issues. Some you found, some we found. Improved Dashboards and Custom Reports Custom Reports has an upgraded reporting engine and layout. Significant improvements were made to dashboard performance as well.

Recently Added & Coming Soon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ In case you haven't logged into Lighthouse recently, here are some of the recent upgrades as well as a list of upcoming features. Let us know if you want more details! New York (released March 2007) Task Management: Lighthouse Pro includes full capabilities to create, edit and assign tasks to users. Tasks can be linked to any other Lighthouse object as well. Read more ... Custom Reporting: Users can now create their own reports on any Lighthouse object using a simple, AJAX-driven, drag-and-drop interface. Custom Reporting is available with Lighthouse Premium. Read more ... Custom Methodology Wizard: You can now specify Agile, RUP, Waterfall or "create your own" methodologies when creating projects. The Custom Methodology Wizard is a Lighthouse Premium feature. Cozumel (coming in July 2007) Custom Fields (phase 1): This Lighthouse Premium feature lets users change drop down menu items found in all Lighthouse modules. Integrated Task and Project Management: Build complete project plans inside Lighthouse, with support for GANTT charts. Users can also fully import, edit and export Microsoft Project plans. User Interface Improvements- various additional improvements to make adding, creating and deleting objects easier. Post Cozumel (later this year) API/Webservices IDE Integration Custom Fields (phase 2) Custom Dashboards Custom Layouts and much more!

Upcoming Public Webinars ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Lighthouse Task Management June 5, 2007 - 8 AM EST This 30 minute webinar will provide an in-depth overview of Lighthouse Task Management. You will learn how to: Create Tasks Create Task Dependencies Update and track Task % Completion Custom Report Overview June 6, 2007 - 8 AM EST This 30 minute webinar will provide an in-depth overview of Lighthouse Custom Reports. You will learn how to: Create Custom Reports Add Graphic Representation Learn About Traceability Lighthouse Overview June 7, 2007 - 8 AM EST This 30 minute webinar will provide an in-depth overview of Lighthouse Pro vs Premium. You will learn: The differences of Pro vs. Premium How to set up your users How to create a project How to link objects together Space is limited, so sign up today! Let us know if you need more time/date options.