IssueTrackerProduct

This release packs in a brand new feature that is going to become very popular: Custom Fields. There is now a management interface for adding your own custom fields to issues, so for example if you want a drop-down with EmployeeID or something like that with every issue you can now do that.

Version 0.10.0 was the new Custom Fields feature and 0.10.1 is a collection of fixes to the Custom Fields feature plus various optimizations. For example, for the homepage, when there's many issues it now uses a catalog search to work out the summary count which on a busy tracker instance now takes 0.1 seconds instead of the 2 seconds it could take.

This release also contains jQuery 1.2.6 which is 100% faster on events and for those with pubic issuetrackers you'll be pleased to notice that spiderbots no longer cause the creation of saved filters.

The Custom Fields feature has been one of the most requested feature for IssueTrackerProduct over the years but it's not an easy feature to implement and it wasn't until US based Saint-Gobain Corporation sponsored the work on it earlier this year that it actually come into existance. Admittedly the interface isn't for faint-hearted but you don't need to know Python to use it and if you do know your way around Python you can do anything you can with normal Zope such as writing scripts that does the validation of input or generate a list of options for a drop-down.

You can read the full change log here

Update

See this How-to: Set up custom fields to your issuetracker