Customize Strings

Languages: you are now able to define languages that can be set as the defaults for each user. The product will soon ship with English, Portuguese, French and Spanish. Any other can also be added. A string that is not defined (as detailed below) in a language, will show in the default language.

All of the strings within Fast BugTrack may be customized. This allows a site that is using Fast BugTrack for more than just bug tracking to change references to these strings. Html values may be entered into these fields to change the look and feel of Fast BugTrack itself. It is also possible to change the meaning of a particular field, if you would like to use it for something else. For example, if "environment" is not relevant to you, you can change the tag to something else such as "customer", "project manager", or something else. All references to this field will be changed throughout Fast BugTrack.

There are currently three special values within Fast BugTrack that allow you to customize areas on all pages within FBT. They are very useful for adding headers, footers and/or custom instructions to every page in the system.
sHead - This appears at the beginning of every HTML page returned, before the logo and menu.
sBody - This appears after the menu, but before any page content (such as the bug table.
sFooter - This appears at the bottom of the page. You can use this to include information at the bottom of every page, or to close any html tags opened above.

Commonly used variables
sRestrictStatus is used to control the actions of some users. This string contains a list of status states which can not be set (for an issue) by any user except an admin user of the creator of the issue. All other users will not see these status types as valid options for status on the modify pages.
sHiddenComparison is used to control the entries that are automatically hidden, when viewing the main menu. The default setting for this field is "Closed". However, You can place any list of status types here (separated by commas). If the status of an issue is listed here and the hide value is set, then your list will not contain this issue.
sLoginLogoAlign controls the placement of the logo on the login page. By default, it is now set to "center" (as opposed to "left")
sLoginNotes allows you to display html for your users at the bottom of the login page.
sDefaultChartAxis is simply the text used as default for chart axis.
sURLPREFIX - allow Fast BugTrack to get forwarded through a separate webserver, such as IIS or apache.

Date Formats
Dates are controlled by the following strings:
sDateFormat - simply the example string that appears when the user puts their mouse over the question mark.
sDateFormatInput - this is the string that controls how dates are input. (note capital M is for month, see format in date section of custom fields)
sHistoryDateFormat - the format used to display dates in the history trail
sShortDateFormat - the format used to display dates.