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  1. 179 votes

    Addin/Plugin for Visual Studio

    Surface Code Collaborator function through a VS 200x plugin

    Status: started

    The Visual Studio Addin soon to be available with the v6.0 beta is essentially the same as the v5.0 technology preview. It's still very rough. We'll soon be making a pass to address error handling and user feedback in the 6.0 beta timeframe

    ebrown Admin
  2. 140 votes

    Single discussion thread covering multiple lines of code

    Users want to comment on a block of code, not just an individual line of code.

    Status: planned

    There are underlying technical reasons why this is tricky, so our standard answer is to just comment at the top of the block of code you are commenting on and preface with an indicator of the block that you are discussing. For example:

    "This method could be..."
    or
    "This loop would be better if..."

    However, if there is overwhelming desire for this feature, it is something that we would consider adding.

  3. 133 votes

    Add support for renamed files

    Currently (at least when using SVN) when a file is renamed, the original file shows up as deleted and the new file shows up as new. The problem is that all of the bugs and comments stay with the original file (now deleted)

  4. 123 votes

    IntelliJ IDEA plugin

    I'd love an IntelliJ IDEA plugin where you could submit a local changelist (group of files within a project) to Code Collaborator.

    Status: started
  5. 118 votes
  6. 109 votes

    Require the re-entry of the user’s password when approving a review so that it is Part 11 Compliant

    Many companies could benefit from Code Collaborator being Part 11 Comliant. The tool is mostly compliant when LDAP is used. This is the only feature that would need to be added. It doesn't seem too time consuming and you can gain a lot of customers in the highly regulated industries.

  7. 94 votes

    Change status from comment to defect or vice versa.

    I made a poor assumption using Smart bear for the review - I entered all my issues as comments. I have a habit of never presuming that my comments are actual problems. I had assumed that if any of my comments were deemed to be defects, the reviewer could change the status from "comment&quo... more

  8. 86 votes

    support custom highlight rules

    Please add an ability to specify additional syntax / highlight rules, for languages without builtin support. In my favorite editors, I can create a file that tells it how to highlight a new language. It would be even better if it supports an existing format for the rules (I use SlickEdit and PSPad).

  9. 79 votes

    Source code navigation

    Reviews are less effective when the execution path can not be readily followed across files (including those not changed), and symbols cannot be located. This is a serious defficiency in my opinion, leading me to jump over to an editor that supports this, and then back to the review.

  10. 71 votes

    When user is subscribed to files in a review, highlight those files.

    This would be particularly useful in larger reviews where each reviewer is only responsible for a small portion of the code under review.

    Status: planned
  11. 69 votes
  12. 63 votes

    Review as Perforce Job

    Others have requested ability to display p4 jobs (most often defect tickets) associated with a changelist. That's great. It would be just as good (if not better) to also create P4 jobs for every review in the system so when we submit changelists we can natively select which review it may be a... more

  13. 63 votes

    Add native support for a "review pool"

    Define any number of "pools" of reviewers, where a pool is made up of any number of users.

    You can then assign reviews to a pool. Email/RSS gets sent to the members of the pool so they all have a chance to "take" the review.

    On the review screen there is a "Take It!&qu... more

    This feature fell out of 6.0 :-( Removing "planned" status. We would like to do this but do not have an immediate plan.

    Roy Admin
  14. 60 votes

    Add Syntax Colouring for Delphi to the Diff Viewer

    It would be great if Delphi source code (.pas files) had syntax colouring in the Diff Viewer like other languages do already.

    If native support isn't possible, some kind of mechanism to create / add syntax colouring ourselves would be just as good.

  15. 56 votes

    Delete files from review

    code collaborator should allow deletion of file from review, if uploaded in error by author.
    Currently, author has to delete review ad recreate new review.

  16. 50 votes

    Add timestamps to chat

    It's useful to know when people commented, or how much time since the last comment.

  17. 50 votes

    Configurable "Wrap to Beginning" functionality

    Allow the user to configure whether they want to automatically "Wrap to Beginning" when iterating through changes in a file, or stop at the end of the file.

    This would be preferable to the current implementation which pops up a modal dialogue once the end of file is reached. In this c... more

  18. 50 votes

    Allow user to choose diff view when adding a Perforce integration changelist

    When you use p4addchangelist to add differences from an integration to a review, Code Collaborator shows the differences between the merged file and the source or from branch.

    We would prefer to see the diffs between the target or source branch and the merge, so we can see what has actually chan... more

  19. 47 votes

    Allow Defect Reuse - "Repeat" Defects

    Sometimes, in a chunk of code, the developer repeats the same mistake in several distinct places. For example, they forget to put a header at the start of a function in several places, or they use inline strings when your coding standards are to use a home brewed string resource. It'd be nice t... more

  20. 46 votes

    List subscriptions on the command line

    This would give administrators a chance to create scripts for things like "clear all subscriptions" or move all subscriptions (if for example the SCM system changes).

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