On the off chance that you haven’t seen it, used it and loved it, I thought I’d take a moment to point out a really cool feature in OnTime that doesn’t always get the spotlight it deserves.

Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to introduce to you, the User Dashboard.

You’ll note in the screenshot above that the user dashboard allows you to view all of your items in one central view, that’s right; Defects, Features, Tasks and Incidents all living together in harmony in one list. Since we’ve got all these items in one place though, it seems a shame to just let it go at that.

The user dashboard also lets you run a report off of all the items it’s currently showing in its grid which make multi-item-type reports pretty simple to run and build.

The user dashboard also can refresh itself based on a timer, want to see the data refreshed from the database every 5 minutes? Done.

Last but certainly not least, I can also edit items directly from the user dashboard, notice the edit buttons up top? Yeah, you can edit items directly from the user dashboard.

Last thing I’m going to say about the user dashboard in this post is that it’s been around since OnTime 2007 and it’s available in Express, Professional and Enterprise so we’re not talking about anything you’ll need to upgrade for or something in a future release. You already have the user dashboard if you’ve got OnTime installed, it’s high time you start using it!

If you want to know more about the User Dashboard (specifically how to launch and use it) check out THIS video we made way back in July of 2008.