FAQ for status reports tool

### Status Reports FAQ

1. What is this tool?
   This is a tool to make status reporting easiar. Rather than trying to remember what you did on Monday for a status report on Friday you can now scribble your progress on this page. On Friday (or whatever day you choose to submit your status reports) you can then submit with the click of a button.
2. How does this work?
   During the week the tools works as a scribble-pad for collecting the status. On submitting the status (typically on a Friday) this will be archived by the date on which it was submitted. So at the end of each day, you can make notes of the things you did that day and click the save button which essentially saves the content till your next visit.
3. How do I create an account?
   The first time you go to http://status/reports/ you will see the login prompt. Just check the 'New Account' option and remember your password. The password is encrypted so even I won't be able to fetch it for you if you forget it...! But in case you do forget it I can reset it for you.
4. How do I view my team's reports?
   In your preferences add the list of team members and then when you view it just check consolidate team. Magic should happen.
5. How do I change my password?
   Go to the prefs page and at the bottom change your password.
6. The "submit today" is annoying. How do I get rid of it...?
   Its a reminder that appears only on the day you said you'd submit your status report. If a lot of people complain about it... I'll remove it.
7. The 'View previous' doesn't show anything... why?
   That would be the case if you do not have a previously 'submitted' (archived) status report on that date. Make sure your date is correct. In future you'd be able to select from a drop down list.
8. When I connect from home I can't access http://status/reports/ correctly. It takes me to http://www.status.com/reports/ with a 404 error. What's going on?
   This is happening becuz your network setup does'nt include a default domain name of mcom.com (or netscape.com) I have fixed the problems on the server side that were requiring an unqualified hostname. However if you still wanna get to status via just status and not status.mcom.com, there are two ways to fix this--
   1. Add the default domain name (of mcom.com and/or netscape.com) to your network settings on the platform of your choice.
   2. Add an entry to your hosts file (typically c:\winnt\system32\drivers\etc\hosts or lmhosts on windows; /etc/hosts on linux and see internet-config on mac)

      `10.169.72.153 status status.mcom.com`

      This will allow your machine to understand that status and status.mcom.com are equivalent.

9. How do I create a summary section just in my report?
   You can add a section just to your preferences and make sure it doesn't appear in your team's preferences. When you consolidate the reports for the team it will only show yours.
10. How do I supress/add confidential items in the report?
    Any item starting with a - is marked confidential and will show up on the report unless you clear the "show confidential items" on the view page.
11. How do I add links in my status reports?
    You can type HTML in the edit boxes for sections! Just make sure that you view your status report (current- in progress) on the View page and that everything looks good the way you expected!
12. What's up with the bullets in these sections?
    Each line in the sections is represented by a bullet item. Hence keep your single items on the same line! A cool way of adding second level list items if you need them is to add <ul> after an item. All subsequent items will be a level indented (till you add </ul>) You could of course use <ol> for numbered lists. For example--

    > foo<UL>
    > bar
    > baz</UL>

    will appear as--

    - foo
      - bar
      - baz
13. How do the bugzilla/bugscape links appear?
    Simply add bug/bugscape before your bug number--

    > Bug 3456 gets replaced by a link to bugzilla bug 3456
    > Bugscape 3456 gets replaced by a link to bugscape bug 3456

14. What's planned for future?
    Check the todo list!