Collaborator Feature Requests

Would like Collaborator to be able to interface with the Sharepoint ecosystem in a similar way to how it interfaces with other repositories. ... View more

When using a git submodule with a pull request / merge request mechanism enforced (i.e., Bitbucket), when the developer changes the submodule and there is no other change in the parent repository other than pointing to the new merge commit, Collaborator shows no files in the review. Commits are properly listed, but there are no changes to actually review, which is incorrect. Bitbucket, for example, lists the "pointer file" that holds the submodule commit reference. It would be extremely helpful to have Collaborator show this difference as well. ... View more

It would be helpful if there was a third state to indicate that a defect has been resolved, but still needs to be "approved" (marked Fixed) by the author of the defect. Currently a defect only appears as "Open" or "Fixed" in the Defect Log. It is difficult to tell which defects have been resolved without looking through the comments, or having someone tell you to look at a specific defect. When there are a lot of defects in the Defect Log, a third state to filter on would make it easy to identify those defects that need to be marked Fixed. Maybe this could also be shown with a different color bug, instead of red or green.      ... View more

Currently a pull request from Bitbucket can only be added to the Remote System Links section automatically when the pull request is created, and there isn't a way to add a link to a pull request manually. Is it possible to make an update that allows linking of more than one pull request in a single review? In the case of making small related changes across multiple repositories, it would be very beneficial to be able to include more than one pull request in a single review, to allow those changes to be reviewed as a set. ... View more

If I write a comment on a review and later want to delete it, I click the Delete button to do so. The message which then appears looks like the image below:     So I have to click Confirm if I want to cancel, and Cancel if I want to cancel the cancellation; i.e. I don't want to cancel the comment. I think.   I think it would be a lot clearer if it used the word "Delete" instead of "Cancel", so could say "Are you sure you want to delete this comment?", and had Yes/No buttons, such that Yes deletes the comment, and No doesn't. ... View more

We would like a dedicated search option (not the built-in browser search). This would enable searching in different tabs in excel and searching though all documents.  ... View more

create a locking diff viewer for excel documents/ spreadsheets to allow for ease of review. (Similar to word documents). This will need to lock between cells and tabs.  ... View more

In a large review with many files and multiple participants, if you are not the first or last participant, it is hard to know which column is yours in the list. This makes it difficult to see if you have already accepted a review which causes unnecessary scrolling. A few possible solutions: Always make the logged in participant the first column of the list of participants. May not work well when someone how isn't an participant of the review is looking at the review, but this is rare and they probably aren't looking to see what files they haven't reviewed. Draw the left and right column lines with a heavier weight. For example:     ... View more

Rather than having to click on each file to exclude it would be good if we could exclude content by folder, by file filter, by holding down the shift key and selecting 15 files at once. Things that allow working with and excluding large lists of files easier and less time consuming to ensure just the essential files are included in any review. Not much thought or effort has been put into the current mechanism. ... View more

currently the ability to re-open reviews is based upon the review templates. It would be better to have this setting be at (or included in) the limited admin level.  It is not typically a setting we desire everyone to have, but having a limited team (quality) be able to re-open is highly desirable.    ... View more

We utilize the assignee field on defects to drive action items.  However, we have not been able to find a way that this is communicated in any method outside of the actual review.  Having this on the home page and/or notification activity (tray, in app, email) would help to expedite action. ... View more

when custom fields are added to checklist, the selection of the custom fields should auto select the checklist item and record the user/date time stamp the same as happens with a checklist item (default) when the left button is activated.   custom fields in this area usually would be a yes,no, n/a override of a simple button toggle provided by default.   additionally, having 2 custom fields (yes/no and notes) it would be great if you could mandate a note is entered for no, but not required for yes.   ... View more

Hi, Would love to have the capability to order the the fields of the Review in the Review page.   For example - I have a Review custom field that needs to come right after the 'Deadline' field. So the capability to move change the order of the fields would be helpful.   Thanks, Puneet.   ... View more

I would like to see support for reviewing local HTML documents, where I can navigate, drop pins and see differences from within the Collaborator environment. Something related has already been done with the Simulink review tool. ... View more

Bringing back an old thread - I'd like anyone with Admin privileges to be able to move a review to Completed.   We've had several instances where someone has left the company, or is on extended leave, and their roles is required to move a review to completed.   On solution is to shuffle roles - while that will allow a review to close, it's "not right".   If the author of a document is out sick - yes I can assign the author role to someone else - but now you are fudging the review records in order to get the closure.   Later when an auditor comes in we have to give a song and dance as to why the roles in the review don't represent the actual roles the staff members have.   We shouldn't need to alter the records to move things forward.      The review is more than a record of defects - it's a record of who did what, and we shouldn't need to compromise that to get around a technical glitch.    ... View more

When I am writing out a comment on a review in response to another comment, my comment is deleted if another user updates that thread.  This is incredibly annoying if I'm writing out a detailed response as there's no way to recover what I'd typed up to that point. The draft comment should be retained in some form when the thread is updated. ... View more

Would like the ability to identify and restrict access to Reviews containing Export/ITAR restricted data.   Recommend having the option to identify a Group as ITAR restricted or non-ITAR, which would then activate a corresponding field for each user in the group. User accounts should also allow this property to be selected independently from the group. An "Export Restriction" field would get added to Reviews and when that field has "ITAR" selected, it prevents any users with the non-ITAR property on their account from accessing the review. ... View more

When you link a defect in Collab by creating a new ticket in Jira, currently it can only do this if the jira scheme has a very basic summary/desc required field setup.  Many jira instances have more complicated configurations with custom fields which may be required.  Collaborator should be usable within these environments and identify and support any required custom fields when creating new issues. ... View more

When you add several changes from git via GUI client to one review there is no way to understand which repository the file belongs to. For example(screen in attache), if several commits contain files with the same name, you can only understand which repository they refer to using a hash. The screenshot shows an example when all 3 files with the same name refer to different repositories. Adding the name of the repository, and not just the file with changes, would help us a lot. Thanks for attention! ... View more