Question

I do a wide variety of freelancing projects, the number of projects within my FogBugz instance is larger than at a company that only supports a few products. Within a year, there could be well over 100 projects, and this would clearly make the product more difficult to use, specifically by overflowing the reports menu, and increasing the number of choices on all project selection dropdowns, making it more difficult to find the correct project.

I know that you have a feature to delete projects. I tried deleting a project and noticed that it remained part of the account, and could be undeleted later. However, when I deleted a project, I could not filter past cases on the project. For completed projects, I would like to be able to see past cases, time spent, and other data, which I cannot do with deleted projects in the current state.

I propose two solutions:

1) Create a new filter category for "Deleted Projects" which would function identically to how the "Projects" filter works, except the dropdown would only show deleted projects. This would solve the problem by allowing me to view data on deleted projects.

2) Create a new action for archiving projects which would function similar to how deleting projects works now. Then create a new filter category for "Archived Projects" which would function identically to how the "Projects" filter works, except the dropdown would only show archived projects.

Case FC1839297

Answer 1

Perhaps a "Closed" flag for projects would be useful too. Delete seems so final/scary when you just want to hide old projects that are no longer active, but might want to reference it later for archival reasons.

Answer 2

Hi Brandon,

I am not sure if this will help your case, but when I imported a database of over 9000 entries into FogBugz, and for completeness' sake, it was decided we should maintain information about obsolete products. To make the project drop-down list more useable, I prefixed the name of each obsolete product with the text "{Obsolete}" (since the { character is near the end of the list in ASCII sort order). This causes all of the old products to be grouped at the end of the drop-down list where they are quite unobtrusive.