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Mantis Feature List
Mantis is an issue tracker that is implemented in PHP. The main features include:
- Free (GPL License)
- Easy to Install (both internally and in hosted environments).
- Easy to evaluate
- InstantMantis - Be up and running in 2 minutes (not recommended for production use)
- Simple User Experience
- Web Based
- Supports any platform that runs PHP (Windows, Linux, Mac, Solaris, AS400/i5, etc)
- Available in 68 localizations.
- Simple/Advanced Issue Pages
- Multiple Projects per instance
- Support for Projects, Sub-Projects, and Categories.
- Users can have a different access level per project
- Changelog Support
- Roadmap Support (available in 1.1.0a2)
- My View Page
- Search and Filter
- Full Text Search
- Simple/Advanced Filters
- Shared Filters (across users / projects)
- Built-in Reporting (reports / graphs)
- Custom Fields
- Email notifications
- Users can monitor specific issues
- Attachments (can be saved on webserver or in database - can also backup to an FTP account)
- Issue Change History
- RSS Feeds (news, issues matching saved filters, issues matching a specific project)
- Customizable issue workflow
- Sponsorships Support - users are able to place bounties or sponsorships for specific issues, also developers can track such sponsorships / payments.
- Anonymous Access
- Signup / Forgot Password Features
- Export to csv, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word
- Ability to extended functionality through hook (custom) functions.
- Reporting issues via Email (available as a patch - currently being integrated)
- Reporting Issues via a custom form on your website (Anonymantis).
- Source Control Integration (SVN and CVS).
- No limit on the number of users, issues, or projects.
- Wiki Integration (optional)
- Chat Integration (optional)
- Multi-DBMS Support - Mantis uses ADODB as an abstraction library to support multiple DBMSes.
- MySQL
- MS SQL
- PostgreSQL
- Oracle (experimental)
- DB2 (in progress)
- Webservice (SOAP) interface (MantisConnect)
- A SOAP web service that is implemented in PHP and can be consumed from any language that supports SOAP web services.
- .NET Client Library
- Java Client Library
- Cocoa Client Library
- Support for mobile devices (MantisWAP).
- There are community projects that integrate it with content management and project management tools.
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