Qantify – The PM System

User Guide for Vendors

Getting Start
Login

Login
The Sign in page is used to login into the project where you have been activated for.

Password Lost
If you forget your password, a procedure lets you to choose a new one.
On the login screen, click on Lost password. Enter your email address and submit the
form. An email is then sent to you. It contains a link that allows you to change your
password.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/login
Home

A quick brief to what’s happening recently in the platform.

Here show up a welcome message, latest news around all projects and the most-recent
project updates.

http://pm.fabriqate.com
My Account

This screen lets you edit your account settings: lastname, firstname, email address,
language.

Mail Notifications
If Mail notifications is checked, you will receive notifications about any event that occurs
on the projects you belong to (issue added or edited, new document,...).
If it's unchecked, you will only receive notifications about the issues you're involved in
(author or assignee) and about things you watch (eg. issues, forums).

Password
To change your password, type your old
password and your new password twice.

Password length must be between 4 and 12

characters.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/my/account
My Profile

This screen gives a brief of your personal information and a list of all projects
that you’re involved in with project role and starting date.

On the right hand side, there will give an historical log of all your activities.
This will include: 
A new issue (feature, defect...) has been created.
The status of the issue has been changed.
The given issue has been closed.
A note to the issue has been added.
A news has been added to the news area.
A message in the forum area has
been added.
A reply to a message in the forum
has been added.
A wiki page has been edited or newly
created.
A new file has been added in the files
area or to a document.
A new document has been added.
Some hours has been logged.
Working On A Project
Project Overview

The Project overview will give you an overview of the whole project.

On left upper side in the Issue tracking area you will get an overview of how many task are
open and closed for each tracker specified for the project.

In the Members area you can see who are the members of the given project and in
particular who is the administrator of the project.

In the Latest news area you can see which

are the latest news for the particular project.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/projects/nissannga/issues
Project Activities

Similar to a user activity page, the project Activity page will give an historical log of all
activities which had happen in the given project.

Using the checkboxes in the sidebar of the right, you can choose which items are
displayed.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/projects/nissannga/activity
Project Schedule

This screen gives a calendar of all time allocation of each project member in the given
project.

Usually, a project manager will allocate project hours on each project member within a
week and the project members shall prioritize each issue/task they are responsible for by
themselves.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/projects/nissannga/schedules
Project Issues

Issues are the heart of the Qantify platform. An issue is bound to a project, owned by a
user, can be related to a version, etc.

The issue list provides a way to look at the opened issues for a project.

Applying And Saving Filters

The issue list displays open issues by default.
Standard and custom fields can be used to
build a custom query. Once the filters are set,
click on  Apply  to refresh the issue list. Click
on Clear to clear the filters

It is possible to select multiple values at once

for a specified field by pressing the  button.
This will convert the drop-down menu in a
selection list. In order to add to the selection
list, use the ctrl key on your keyboard.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/projects/nissannga/issues
Project Issues

Pop-up Menu
A context menu pops up when right on an issue of the issue list.

This menu offers several shortcuts to quickly edit, reprioritize, reassign, copy, move or
delete the issue.
Project Issues

Sidebar
The contextual sidebar on the right of the issue list provides links to several different
things:

View all issues: the default issue list without any other filters applied (thus only open
issues), which is useful when you are looking at a custom query and want to get back
to the default issue list;

Summary: a report of all the issues at a project-level;

Calendar: The calendar provides an overview of the current project as a monthly

view.

Gantt: The Gantt Chart displays issues that have a start date and a due date or are
assigned to a version with a date.
Issue Tracking

From a selected issue page, you can see the work in progress that is done to fix the issue.
The messages are displayed in chronological order, starting from the oldest to the newest
message. It is possible to quote others' messages as well as to edit yours.

Related Issues
Related issues allow developers to link
issues to each other in order to remove
duplicates or simplify their workflow.

Watchers
Display a list of all the users who are
watching this issue. If the issue is
updated, those users will be notified.
Issue Tracking

Updating An Existing Issue

To update the issue, Click Update link at the top or the bottom of the issue page:

Depending you your role permissions, you will see a complete or a limited set of editable
issue properties.
Issue Tracking

An issue is usually assigned to a project member with a due date set. The responsible
member is to review the task in detail and make sure he understands the task before he
starts any work and meets the deadline.

When Should You Update An Issue

Whenever you have a question, please post an update. Change the status to Feedback and
assign it to the creator;
Issue Tracking

When Should You Update An Issue

Whenever you start to work on an issue, please change the status to Assigned;
Issue Tracking

When Should You Update An Issue

From the start date of an issue, please post a issue report everyday which shall include
progress achieved, time spent, activity performed and the report body;
Issue Tracking

When Should You Update An Issue

By the due date/completion of an issue, please change the issue status to be Resolved and
assign the issue back to the creator for next step(It’s also important to include additional
information related to the issue such as settings, notes, limitations, etc);
Issue Tracking

When Should You Update An Issue

For missing a due issue, please give clear reasoning why the deadline has been missed out,
clearly state the current progress and indicate for a completion date before you assign the
issue back to the creator for next step;
Project News

In the news area you can publish news items about the project or any subject you like.
You can give the news item a title, a summary and the detailed description. The summary
will be displayed in the Latest news area of the Project Overview whereas the description
will be displayed if you click on the title of the news item.

http://pm.fabriqate.com/projects/nissannga/news
Project Documents

All project related documents should be uploaded here.

Adding Documents

From the Documents tab press the New document link.

There are two categories for documentation, User documentation and

Technical documentation

Viewing Documents
Once documents have been uploaded, the title is used as the link to download the
attached documents, and add more if necessary. You can also sort documents by filters on
the right sidebar.
Project Files

A sortable table shows the details of all the uploaded files. If a version if selected while
uploading the file the file is shown below the version. Of note are the MD5 hash and
D/L(Download Count).

But we recommend we organize all project files on Qrypt instead.

Thanks for your time