Jack Wallen shows you how simple it is to release a bug tracking tool with the user-friendly Airtable.
Image: rarrarorro/Adobe Stock Airtable is billed as a”spreadsheet-database hybrid, with the features of a database however applied to a spreadsheet.” Yet anyone who’s used the tool extensively understands that it can be much more than that. In fact, by employing the best design templates, Airtable can be a job management platform, a material calendar, an occasion organizer and even a bug tracking system.
Prior to I continue, do keep in mind that utilizing Airtable as a bug tracking system may not be the best option for very large, enterprise-class projects. However for little to mid-sized efforts, this might can be found in useful– especially for those tasks with limited budget plans.
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With the assistance of an easy-to-install template, you can change an Airtable work area into a platform to assist you monitor vulnerabilities and concerns in your task. Utilizing this design template, you’ll delight in functions like:
- Bugs by top priority
- Bug pipeline
- Customizable bug submission kind
- Kanban view
- Calendar.
- Group usage
Let’s see simply how simple it is to get this up and running.
What you’ll need to utilize Airtable for bug tracking
The only thing you’ll need to make this work is an Airtable account. You can do this with either a free account or a paid account, but if you understand your task may expand considerably in size, you may wish to eventually choose to go the paid path so you aren’t restricted in the variety of issues you can track.
The one caveat to this is discovering the design template on the mobile variation of the app. Since of this, I advise you either take care of adding the template to a Work space from either the web-based or desktop variation of Airtable.
With that said, let’s transform Airtable into the bug tracking system your project has been requiring.
How to find and use the Bug Tracker template
The method we develop a bug tracking system on Airtable visits way of an easy-to-install design template. To add this, open either the web or desktop version of Airtable and either develop a new Work area or click Add A Base from an existing Work space (Figure A).
Figure A
My Airtable account has a few Workspaces from which to
select. Click Add A Base and, in the resulting window(Figure B ), click See All Design templates in the right navigation.
Figure B
Adding a new Base in Airtable. Type Bug in the Browse field to expose 2 various Bug Tracking templates(Figure C) 
. Figure C< img src="https://d1rytvr7gmk1sx.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/airtablebugc-770x334.jpg"alt ="" width="770"height= "334"/ > There are two various bug tracking design templates to choose from. Click the design template called Bug Tracker, and then, in the resulting window (Figure D), click Use Template.
Figure D
Creating the new based from the
Bug Tracker Template. Even if you click Include A Base from within a pre-existing Work area, you will be asked which work area will house the template. Click the drop-down (Figure E), select a Work space and click Include Base.
Figure E
Selecting the Work area to house the brand-new base. When the new base has been created, you’ll discover yourself on the new Bug Tracker app with plenty of demo information (Figure F) to assist you get up and keeping up the tool.
Figure F
The Bug Tracker template develops an outstanding app for tracking concerns connected with your task.
Something to bear in mind is that you should also create a kanban view for this app so you have several methods of seeing the status of each problem. To do that, click Kanban in the Produce area (bottom left of the main window). Offer the kanban board a name (like Kanban), select who can edit, and click Develop New View (Figure G).
Figure G
Adding a kanban view to the Bug Tracker app. You will then be prompted to pick a Grouping field (Figure H), which determines how each column in the kanban view is arranged.
Figure H
Sorting the columns for the kanban
view. Click Done and the kanban view is prepared to help you make sense of different concerns.
And that, my pals, is all there is to producing a Bug Tracker app with the assistance of the Airtable service.
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