Lighthouse Pro - Free for All

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Lighthouse Pro, my ColdFusion bug tracking application is now free for all. You may download it now from the project page. Please let me know what you think. I'm think I may have used Flash Forms a bit too much - so constructive UI criticism would be welcome.

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Archived Comments

Comment 1 by Doug Hughes posted on 11/1/2005 at 12:49 AM

Ray, is this the same vesion as the DRK version?

Comment 2 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/1/2005 at 1:02 AM

Yes. Well, with minor updates. I think I updated one file or so.

Comment 3 by Brett Liotta posted on 11/1/2005 at 1:49 AM

Don't you have a live demo somewhere? I can't find it.

Comment 4 by Cal J posted on 11/1/2005 at 1:51 AM

Thanks for your hard work, Ray!

Comment 5 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/1/2005 at 1:51 AM

No demo, sorry. I could set one up I guess.

Comment 6 by sophek posted on 11/1/2005 at 3:48 AM

Great app once again Ray, I downloaded and install the app, everything is working fine except when I go to add a new issue the assigned to field is blank even though I added a user. I looked in the db and I don't see data under the the projectidfk or useridfk field.

Thanks
Sophek

Comment 7 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/1/2005 at 7:26 AM

Sophek, you need to assign a user to a project, not just make them.

Comment 8 by John Farrar posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:23 PM

Ray... I keep getting an javascript error on the page.

Line: 103
Char: 1
Error: lc_id is undefined
Code: 0
URL.....

Comment 9 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:26 PM

That is normally a badly setup cfide virtual folder on your server.

Comment 10 by John Farrar posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:28 PM

Ah... was running on IIS on Windows XP Pro... using multisite plugin... and flash forms choke in that setting. Got it resolved... thanks for any consideration just the same.

Comment 11 by Phillip Senn posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:49 PM

The force is strong in this one.
But I only found format="flash" in one page: stats.cfm.
Are you saying you took out all your format="flash" code?

Comment 12 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:50 PM

No, Flash forms are used _everywhere_, which is one reason I said I wanted some feedback.

Comment 13 by Phillip Senn posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:51 PM

This uses Application.cfm, not Application.cfc.

Comment 14 by Phillip Senn posted on 11/1/2005 at 8:58 PM

I don't see it (the format="flash" part).
My development with ColdFusion flash forms has included parameters such as skin, preservedata, preloader, timeout, cfinput, cfformitem, etc.
Yours loads instantaneously, which is a far sight better than my flash forms.

Comment 15 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/1/2005 at 9:00 PM

Are you sure you are using Lighthouse Pro? Does it match the screen shot on the project page? Note that I also have a product called Lighthouse, which is a light-weight version.

Comment 16 by rd posted on 11/2/2005 at 2:30 AM

I just made the same mistake, you have to use the link off to the right, the one on the page refers to his old version of lighthouse... kinda confusing.

Comment 17 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/2/2005 at 2:37 AM

I'll see if I can make it clearer.

Comment 18 by Phillip Senn posted on 11/2/2005 at 3:20 AM

1. There was no doc file(s). I know, I know: real programmers don't need docs.

2. mail was required to be turned on in cfide, before I found out that

3. I had to define the datasource lhp_sink to lhp.mdb.

4. I had to lookup the username and password (admin, password).

5. I would prefer an accordian menu on the left to give it some life.

6. I would use preloader="false" to keep the initializing from nagging me.

7. A common skins.cfm could be written to set a skin variable that will give all users in all your applications the ability to change their skin.

Comment 19 by Raymond Camden posted on 11/2/2005 at 3:25 AM

1) Eh? There is an install.doc in the zip. I just double checked. Be SURE you are getting lighthousepro.zip.

2) Well, thats a pretty common assumption I think. :)

3) It is in the docs.
4) Ditto.
5) The menu? Well - I was a bit worried about the overuse of Flash Forms anyway. ;)

6) I like the preloader.

7) The site uses an abstrated layout already. Would be easy to mod.

FYI - new version being posted in about 5 minutes.

Comment 20 by Cameron Childress posted on 2/23/2008 at 9:36 PM

Ray - the link in this blog post is broken. I know it's old, but you may want to update it anyway. It was the number one Google result for "lighthouse pro camden" :)

Comment 21 by Raymond Camden posted on 2/23/2008 at 9:42 PM

Thanks. Fixed. Thats the second such notice this week. ;)

Comment 22 by Cameron Childress posted on 2/23/2008 at 9:48 PM

Wow that was fast!