BugLog Update and News

I wanted to share a couple of news about the BugLog project.

First if you are using ColdBox, Tom Demanincor wrote a very nice tutorial on how to integrate bugLog as a ColdBox plugin. Check out his blog post here, it is very detailed and shows the code needed to make it work.

Also he raised an interesting point if you are modifying buglog to use per-application mappings. The BugLog distribution contains basically two independent applications. The main one is the server/listener part, which is the part that receives the bug reports from the applications. This is on the main bugLog directory and has its own Application.cfc. This application does not have a user interface.

The second application is the HQ application, which is the part that has the user interface and is where you get redirected if you just go to /bugLog in your browser. This is where you can see the bug reports and look at the pretty charts. This one also has its own Application.cfc and is located in /bugLog/HQ

So if you are defining per-application mappings programmatically on the Application.cfc don't forget that you need to set them up on both Application.cfc files otherwise you gonna find some weird errors.

Additionally a couple of people in the community reported a few minor bugs that needed to be corrected. The first one dealing with some component references not being created with the full path to the CFC and resulting in some errors. And the second one was that sending of bug reports via email was not working due to a missing setting.

To enable emailing a bug report that has been received you need to edit the /buglog/hq/config/config.xml.cfm file and set the contactEmail setting to the email address you wish to use as the sender.

I have updated the project in RiaForge with these fixes, so you can get the latest release from there. Here is the link.