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Monday, 29 January 2007 |
JIRA Client, an interactive interface for JIRA Issue Tracker, lets
users save time and work with issues anywhere through the use of
Offline Mode, Powerful Search and more
St.Petersburg, Russia. - January 29, 2007:
ALM Works today announces the release of JIRA Client 1.0, the first
version of a handy desktop client for Atlassian JIRA issue tracking and
project management system. This client offers interactive user
interface, powerful search, offline mode and other capabilities that
expand JIRA functionality to organize issue tracking for more
convenience and efficiency.
According to Igor Sereda, the
founder of ALM Works, the concept behind JIRA Client is to make issue
tracker a more powerful and, at the same time, more easy-to-use tool.
"JIRA Client is a valuable companion for frequent JIRA users," says Mr.
Sereda. "The program has powerful search capabilities and unique
hierarchical organization of search filters, which let you immediately
grasp project state and concentrate on the work to be done. Thanks to
JIRA Client caching issues on your hard drive, you can now search,
create and modify issues when JIRA server is not available - during
business trips or on-site with a customer. And interactive interface
saves your time that otherwise would be spent on browsing web pages."
It's Now Possible to Work with Issues Away from the Network
JIRA Client downloads issues from JIRA and stores them in a local
cache, allowing users to view and edit issues regardless of server's
availability. Any changes that are not marked "draft" are uploaded to
JIRA whenever the server is reachable. JIRA Client also periodically
polls server for changes and download new or modified issues. These
changes are automatically reflected on the JIRA Client's interface - in
issue counters and issue tables.
More Powerful and Structured Search Improves Issue Tracking
JIRA Client has powerful search with complete Boolean logic processor,
which allows users to build any combination of filters, grouped by AND,
OR and NOT operations. JIRA Client also lets each user organize search
queries into hierarchy: when a "child" query is run, the results of its
"parent" are taken, and the query's filter is applied to them.
Each downloaded query is displayed along with an issue counter, which
shows the number of issues that pass the query's filter. This feature
provides users with an immediate and customizable perspective on the
project state and lets them quickly find out what they were working on
last time.
Neatly Organized Issues Allow to Concentrate on Work to Be Done
JIRA Client shows an issue list and selected issue's details on the
same screen, allowing users to quickly browse through issues without
losing context. It's possible to work with multiple lists of issues at
the same time. Linked issues may be arranged into a hierarchy. For
example, if issues table contains duplicate issues, all duplicates may
be positioned "under" their original issue.
JIRA Client may be
used to update issues and to submit new issues. Links between issues
may be created by dragging "source" issues and dropping them over
"target" issues, or by using copy-and-paste operation. JIRA Client
makes it easy to apply workflow actions to a number of issues, move one
or more issues to another project or reassign them.
Pricing and Availability
JIRA Client corporate license price is $169 per user. ALM Works also
offers floating, academic and personal licenses. JIRA Client is free
for use in open-source projects. All customers are entitled to free
lifetime patches and minor updates, and to limited-time technical
support and major upgrades.
JIRA Client 1.0 runs under Microsoft
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista, Linux and Apple Mac OS X 10.4. The client
is compatible with Atlassian JIRA version 3.3 or later, any edition.
JIRA Client downloads and free time-limited evaluation is available from the product web site: http://almworks.com/jiraclient
About ALM Works
Founded in 2004, ALM Works Ltd is a St.Petersburg, Russia based
software company. ALM Works specializes in the development of
consistent and interoperable software for application lifecycle
management and software development process. Since its incorporation,
the company has developed two sister products - Deskzilla and JIRA
Client, which give new possibilities for effective use of the Mozilla's
Bugzilla and Atlassian JIRA issue tracking systems. For more
information about the company and its products, please visit http://almworks.com
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 30 January 2007 )
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