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Help / Control Centers / Project Management Hub
  • Overview
  • Managing spools of requests
  • Creating a spool of requests
  • Modifying the characteristics of a spool of requests
  • Modifying the access rights for a spool of requests
  • Managing the requests found in a spool
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Overview
The Project Management Hub is used to define spools of requests. A spool of requests corresponds to a list of requests not associated with projects. These requests can be incidents or suggestions sent by the users of the application.
Usage example of a spool of requests:
Usage example of a spool of requests
The requests are created by different methods:
  • the "Feedback" component provided with WINDEV. The end users send their requests.
  • the Project Management Hub: you can directly create a new request and assign it to a spool.
Remark: A working project and a request spool are automatically created when the "Suggestions, malfunction ..." option of ? menu is integrated into the WINDEV application.. This working project and this spool of requests are automatically associated with the WINDEV application.
Managing spools of requests

Creating a spool of requests

To create a spool of requests:
  1. Display a "Requests" tab in the Project Management Hub (or create a new "Requests" tab if necessary).
  2. In the ribbon, in the "Management" group, click "Spools".
    Manage spools
  3. Click the "New" button. The wizard for creating a new spool of requests starts. Go to the next step.
  4. Type the requested information:
    • spool name: This is the name used to identify the spool in the various Control Centers.
    • spool icon: This icon represents the spool.
    • comments: Description of the spool.
    • the rights on the spool (rights to add new requests to the spool, rights to modify the tasks) and the access rights granted to the contributors.
    • Customizable columns: These columns allow you to enter additional information specific to the spool.

Modifying the characteristics of a spool of requests

To modify the characteristics of a spool of requests:
  1. Display a "Requests" tab in the Project Management Hub (or create a new "Requests" tab if necessary).
  2. In the "Management" group, click "Spools".
  3. Select the requested spool.
  4. Click the "See/Modify" button.
  5. Modify the requested information:
    • spool name: This is the name used to identify the spool in the various Control Centers.
    • The state of the spool: "Active" or "Archived". Used to classify the spools of requests.
    • Configurable columns: These allow you to enter additional information specific to the spool.
    • spool icon: This icon represents the spool.
    • comments: Description of the spool.
    • email account settings: characteristics of the email account used to receive suggestions and IncomingData (when using the "Suggestions, IncomingData..." option in ? menu, for example).
  6. Validate.
Remark: You can also change the status of the selected spool by clicking directly on the "Archive" or "Restore" button.

Modifying the access rights for a spool of requests

To modify the access rights for a spool of requests:
  1. Display a "Requests" tab in the Project Management Hub (or create a new "Requests" tab if necessary).
  2. In the "Management" group, click "Spools".
  3. Select the requested spool.
  4. Click the "Access rights" button.
  5. Modify the access rights for the teams or for the contributors by checking in the corresponding columns:
    • Modification: right to transform a spool request into a task in a contributor's schedule.
    • Add: right to add a new request to the spool.
    • Consultation: right to view all spool requests.
    • Administration: right to modify spool characteristics and access rights.
  6. To add contributors or teams of contributors, click the "Choose" button.
  7. Validate.
Managing the requests found in a spool
Viewing all the requests of a spool is performed in a "Requests" tab in the Project Management Hub. Different filters are used to select the requests to display:
  • Follow the evolution of my own requests.
  • Process the requests that affect me.
  • Select the project to process.
  • Select the spool to process.
When the selected requests are displayed, you have the ability to: This window is used to:
  • add a request ("New request" in the ribbon or "Add a request" in the context menu). The request can be directly assigned to a contributor or to a team.
  • refuse a request ("Cancel the request" in the context menu of the request). To view the rejected requests, check "Canceled".
  • transform a request into task ("Create a task from the request" in the context menu of the request).
  • link a request to a task ("Link the request to a task" in the context menu of the request).
  • transform a request into incident ("Create an incident from the request" in the context menu of the request).
  • ...
Minimum version required
  • Version 10
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