Assembla FAQ and Documentation

Branding

Customize the look & feel of your Assembla workspaces to match your company website.

• Edit with simple HTML and CSS to apply a unified look to all of the pages and spaces within your portfolio instantly.
• Create a custom subdomain name where your users can log in and navigate to their portfolio projects,
• Display your brand logo
• Create custom headers to label your site.
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User Reporting

User reporting allows you to keep track of a large number of users across all projects in one simple page.

• Use filters to view specific users by sorting them by space, team role or custom groups you set up.
• Search amongst all users, and view and edit privileges for multiple users at once.
• Click on a user to see his/her most recent activity, as well as StandUp reports and time entries.
• Easily invite new users or edit rights of existing users. 
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Ticket Reporting

Ticket reporting allows you to easily keep track of all tasks and milestones from all of your projects

• Filter tickets by individual project or view reports on all tickets at once.
• Create reports on ticket status counts, active tickets by priority, assigned user or component, and kill rate by date.
• Keep track of net changes and closed tickets with a daily or weekly view to maximize productivity.
• Easily change tickets from any space by clicking through the ticket and editing directly.
• Create and save ticket reports based on specific criteria that you define.
• Export tickets into CSV or XML from any report. See milestone due dates in a calendar view.
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Time Reporting
Important: Collect revenue more easily with integrated time capture and reporting

Time reporting allows you to effectively keep track of hours worked across all projects and maximize efficiency for greater revenue.

• View all time entries, or sort by space team role, or a custom group you define.
• Select a specific date range, and sort time entries by date, user, space, hours, or task description.
• View time entries by billing status
• See related tickets for each time entry.
• Mass edit time entries based on their payment status.
• Click through a user to see all their recent activities and time entries.
• Use Time Totals to see cumulative hours by each user
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Stream Reporting

Stay on top of all activity from all users and all projects, but use filtering abilities to narrow in on specific spaces, groups, or people.

• Ability to view entire “stream” or “feed” of all events at any given time
• Use numerous filters to choose space, project, date, activity type, user role, etc, to view specific tasks
• Click through any user, activity, space or ticket to expand or edit.
• Subscribe to RSS feed for any workstream
• Stay on top of the progress on all the projects you manage, and quickly note any drop in activity. 
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Group Management
Get a custom view of reports and activity that includes the users and projects that you care about.

• Create as many separate groups to use in filters as you find useful. For example, programmers, supervisors, Boston site crew, marketing team, or managers.
• These groups can be used to make reports under
  Stream
  Tickets
  Users
  Spaces
  Time
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Role-Based Interfaces

Role-Based Interfaces allow you to invite managers, project team members, and even customers into your site with confidence by selectively assigning privileges.

• Assign users to different roles, which correspond with the ability to see different information and have different rights.
• Managers get the complete set of reporting tools, with an overview of all spaces and users in the subscription, and can also invite other users to be managers.
• Team members can see some reports about their project tickets, activities, and users.
• Watchers can log in on to a branded portal. They will see a start page listing the projects and activities that they are working on, but do not have most edit privileges.

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Stand Up Reports

Stand Up Reports are a way for even widely distributed team members to keep each other updated on their recent progress and immediate goals.

• Users answer 2 simple questions: what have you accomplished, and what do you expect to accomplish, on a daily or weekly basis
• Users can also easily report any roadblocks, which will automatically alert a manager
• Users can also include convenient links to relevant tickets, wiki pages, or repository revisions.
• Managers may easily view all Stand Up Reports
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Templates

Once you’ve created a space with the features and customizations you like, you can easily duplicate it and use it as a template for your next project. When you go to create a new space, previous spaces appear as options for templates.
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Project Portability

Quickly export your repository or tickets for import into another Assembla space or a different system.

• Spaces originally created with one of our free, open source packages may be carried over into the portfolio option.
• Spaces may have ownership transferred easily