Question

When can we expect to see Trello/FogBugz integration? I want to put a list of cases on a Trello board and collaboratively assign and prioritize them with the greatest of ease.

Note: we have a case open to look into providing documentation, scripts etc to help with integration. This post is a work in progress.

Trello - FogBugz integration is a popular request and is definitely on our radar. The way a lot of people use the two products together isn't usually to have a one-to-one card to case mapping. Here's a post by Joel on it:

What is the role of traditional issue tracker when Scrum / Kanban board is used?

For now, both products have excellent APIs and since there are so many ways one could connect the two, the best thing to do is to work on a spec. We recommend starting out by posting your needs as answers to this question, or as a new question tagged trello and feature-request.

For an example of API integration with FogBugz and Trello, check out our blog post here.

Case FC2219214

Answer 1

I too would like to see some real integration between FogBugz and Trello for high level management and visualisation of projects.

However, if you look at the public "Trello Development" board you'll see that there is at least a little bit of integration already, some cards have a little Kiwi badge on them.

https://trello.com/board/trello-development/4d5ea62fd76aa1136000000c

Turns out that if you add a FogBugz url to a card it'll get a little Kiwi badge to denote that there is a case in FogBugz to cover the card.

I've just tested it on my Trello board, seems to work, and if you click the Kiwi badge it'll go to the url.

I presume this is for FogBugz On Demand only, not sure about publicly available self-hosted FogBugz.

Answer 2

I'm absolutely with the others here; as few-year-long user of FogBugz, first time I saw Trello in the video and then tested it myself I immediately felt that this was the missing link for FogBugz.

I don't know what I would really expect from a FB<>TR connection, I just feel they both can work so super-inter-connected together. It reminds me a lot about the Kanban plugin (which doesn't seem to be really maintained/developer anymore).

I can imagine a FB plugin which allows things like:

• connect a FB project to a TR board
• either auto-publish all cases on TR or be able to nominate cases to be published on TR
• link changes made on FB to TR and reverse (don't know if the full range of changes being possible to a case make sense?)
• map FB users to TR users .. I guess that's the base for a lot of this exchange things and seems to be a though one ...

Mighty FogCreek Gods, what can we expect?

Answer 3

I found this article: http://blog.fogcreek.com/fogbugz-and-trello-homebrew/

which links to the following script - a nice start to integration: https://developers.fogbugz.com/default.asp?W212

Answer 4

While we're at it: where's trello.stackexchange.com?

Answer 5

I voted this down because the last thing I want FogCreek developers wasting their time on is Trello integration. There are so many outstanding FogBugz issues that have been "postponed indefinitely" because apparently the FogCreek developers think it's more fun to play with new toys (i.e. Trello) than address these issues in FogBugz. It's unfortunate that FogBugz customers are the ones paying for the development of Trello while FogBugz wastes away...

Answer 6

Real simple fix. Allow self hosters to link a trello card with a FB case. Simple quick win. All we need is a setting in our trello accounts to set the url of our FB server. Currently you just use a regex to look if its a on demand account or not. Should be a simple mod and then everyone is happy :)

Answer 7

I would fly away from basecamp if FogBugz integrated with Trello!

Answer 8

I'm only interested in Trello integration if it's going to be free.

• In my opinion, FogBugz is a must-have for any development shop regardless of size.

• The plugins are great for filling in gaps or features here or there.

  • However, the cost is way out of proportion to the dollar value I get from FogBugz. (I'm looking at you Balsamiq and Creately)
    • I don't want Trello to become another of these cool features that costs too much for me to bother with them.
  • If revenue coming in from FogBugz is going to be spent on Trello, I don't want Trello to cost me anything - I wouldn't pay for a subscription, anyway.
    • Instead, spend my FogBugz dollars on improving FogBugz.
  • If revenue from FogBugz is going to provide me a cool Trello integration that is bundled in with my $25/user/mo, then go for it.

Answer 9

Make a "Board" view in FogBugz that would display projects as boards, areas in the project as lists, and cases as cards. We don't need all the power of Trello right now, but to have a Project view that would allow us to visibly see cases moving between different areas and move them across the board. It would be awesome!!

Answer 10

I would like this integration to replace the stopped "Kanban" plugin for fogbugz. It would be nice if the trello boards could automtically tie into the Case Status changes - with two waay integraiton. Move on trello and it changes status, chang status and it moves on trello board.

Answer 11

Would be great if there was a "Send to Fogbugz" button to create a case with the title/description, and a link to the trello card.

Answer 12

Hi Ben,

I'm a Senior QA Analyst with Backflip Studios (mobile developer that uses Fog Creek products to great joy).

We use Trello as a "what are you working on right now?" tool. Linking a card to a task in FBZ would be HUGE for us. So, here are some of the things that would help us with this:

• A "I'm working on this right now" button in Fogbugz associated with a task or bug that could then shoot over to trello and move the card/change the label/etc (flexibility here would be nice).
• A 'list' column in Fogbugz -- i.e. whatever list that task/bug is inhabiting in trello, can be sorted by the column in fogbugz
• This may go without saying, but we want actions in fogbugz to show up on the activity feed in Trello (assuming that all tasks/bugs can be populated as individual cards)
• Have Trello checklists show up in fogbugz tasks/bugs (as they are created) and be able to be manipulated.
• Have task/bug assignments show up in trello (i.e. if task #1 is assigned to person X, have person X show up as attached to the corresponding trello card)
• Allow multiple people to be assigned to the same task/bug in Fogbugz (I'm not sure if this is already able to happen, I'll check with my admins)
• Also, probably goes without saying, but Active Syncing--i.e. I can make edits to cards in trello or tasks/bugs in fogbugz, and it changes in both places seamlessly.
• Automatic links provided between trello and corresponding fbz tasks/bugs.

Some other nice-to-haves:

• A Trello/Fogbugz integration Dashboard that can have a nifty centralized place to edit and customize the way the two play together.

That's about it for now. Please email me if you want to chat more about it. I'm very interested in seeing implementation as these are current issues we're dealing with.

Thanks!

Answer 13

I am still hoping to get ADFS support in Trello as we have with FogBugz. Being able to authenticate users against out Active Directory (using Federation Service) is a huge need for team that have certain compliance requirements.

Answer 14

My vision for this integration would be this:

• In Trello you can "link" your board to a FogBugz account

• If your board is linked you would see a textbox near the board name area. There you could type in a FogBugz query. Results would appear in an overlay.

• The user can select a result and upon doing so create a new card that is linked to that FogBug item.

• Linked cards would have basic two-way synchronization (title, notes, history, status, etc) with some exceptions.

• A FogBugz button/menu on each Trello card would allow users to change status and other basic interactions. For non-simple changes the card would have a direct link to the item in FogBugz.

Answer 15

The real question is WHEN???? Kanban offers a solution to part of the high level management and backlog priority problems but there are too many limitations and as we all know, it's no longer supported. Something similar to the Kanban plugin OR Trello integration is the number one feature request here and it's been talked about for a very long time. I'm in the middle of trying to determine if I need to have my team do custom development to make our own or continue to wait. I'm just looking for a ballpark...are we talking another year...a few months...right around the corner? Please help!

Answer 16

Trello is a great visual element toward keeping projects organized. Ultimately, I could see particular projects organized into Lists (ordered descending/latest first) to visualize latest updates to particular code bases. Each Card would have it's comments section synced up with the case in particular for updates and such.

I almost see Trello as a front-end (non technical) inteface for showing project details and updates with great image association, visual element definition quick modification for sorting/filtering, whereas Fogbugz is the backend developer view for more specific details, but as designed by a developer for developer, I feel, lacks in project overview/quick view understanding of what's going on.

I am a developer and can see so many benefits of this as a project management, organization, overall workflow tool that could easily integrate nicely with Fogbugz... When I first began working with Fogbugz, i was lost, but with Trello, was able to snap in and get working immediately, with may visual queues as to where things are currently at in my development process.

Answer 17

My vote would be for a local install version of Trello that integrates tightly with Fogbugz/Kiln in much the same was as the existing one-way 'Milestones to Trello' script does (but updating in both directions, obviously). We wouldn't mind having to configure that integration at quite a low level (like we would have to in order to deploy that script).

We love the Kanban-style GUI and it keeps things so nice and simple for the devs rather than having them trawling through lists of cases. We used the Kanban FB plugin for a while but it had too many shortcomings so had to drop it in the end.