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    1. 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.

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      • 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)

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        • Single discussion thread covering multiple lines of code

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

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            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.

          • Add checklist to review process

            A checklist to keep track of / remind reviewers ensure the author's code is not only functionally correct but satisfies the companies coding / checkin policy. Also would be a good way to prevent recurring bugs / issues by having a way to remind reviews to check for them.

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            • 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.

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              • 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).

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                • 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.

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                  • 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" to "defect" with relative ease. As it looks with the current implementation of Smart bear, all of my comments will need to be re-written as defects. This will take time and effort as Noah is going through it right now. It might be worthwhile to contact… more

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                    • 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.

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                      • 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!" button so it's easy for one person to claim the review.

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                        • Add a user preference for changelist rollup setting

                          Would be great to be able to set a default of "roll up all changelists"

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                          • Participant OR group based in restrict access to review content

                            Customer would like to be able to say let people view this review who are either in the group associated with the review, OR a participant of the group.
                            Users should be able to invite participants to a review who are not in the group as part of this feature.
                            Just selecting "Participants" is not a valid workaround, because that keeps other members of the group from being able to view this review.

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                            • Add timestamps to chat

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

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                                Timestamps on General Chat is now available in our 7.0 beta release. We will implement chat in the diff viewer for GA. Please see the release notification thread of the CodeCollaborator Admin forum on our website for information on how to register to participate in the open beta program. The SmartBear forums are located here: http://smartbear.com/forums/

                              • Reviews should stay in 'Fix Defects' until author is done.

                                Right now a review will get kicked out of the 'Fix Defects' phase (back to 'Inspection') if the author makes any comment on a review. This really seems like a bug in the state flow for a review. Why doesn't it stay in this state until the Author click the 'Defects Fixed; Proceed to Verification' button at the bottom of the review summary? We'd really like authors to be able to comment on defects when they fix them and after they are done forward the review back to the reviewers to re-inspect/verify. Right now my reviewers complain that they "waste"… more

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                                • 78 votes
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                                  • 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.

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                                    • 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.

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                                      • 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 to say 'This defect on this line is another instance of defect XXXXX" instead of repeating what was written already. This would be an "Associated" defect, or "Repeated" defect. Each defect is distinct, but each has the same root cause / bad design / problem / algorithmic… more

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                                        • 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 associated with. Without having the user to enter some regex matchable string into the comments.

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                                          • add server-side support for adding TFS changesets

                                            Like you have for Perforce and Subversion now, but for TFS.

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