Ironically development has just started picking up a ton again in the past 2 weeks! We've been a little quiet due to multiple members of our development team having some crisis level turn of events in their lives, that being said we're full steam ahead at the moment and have actually just brought someone else on to aid on some of the smaller pieces! There actually will be post in the very near future about some renovations taking place in regards to the helpdesk, cough cough reporting cough cough. Etc.

Hi everybody! I'm back :).

Working on getting back into the swing of things after MangoCon and it has been one heck of a difficult time. Came back to fire everywhere at my other work so bare with me. I do have a release for you tonight that will likely be going up shortly. This new release covers quite a few topics:

• Related tickets: you can essentially now create ticket trees/families. On tickets when you go to edit a ticket you will see a related tickets box at the bottom. You can add ticket numbers in here to create a related ticket link. You can add them individually or using comma's as delimiters.

• Attachments! These do work. You can either select the paper clip on the notes screen or drag and drop into the enter bar. I have yet to create the load bar but it does work and you will see both a system entry of "An attachment has been created" and you can then access your attachment from the attachments tab.

• Time management change: You now add time through the notes side of things. Here you can only add time if a note is accompanied with it! Very poor notification that this is necessary but it is! Keep that in mind! (I'm going to create a warning when I get around to it.

• Crappy pagination! It's barebones, set up to handle 50 tickets to a page but it works. Rather boring and not flashy but gets the job done! lol

• You can search via ticket Number: Eventually there will be a filtering system/search via description and summary text but for now you have ticket number.

Likely as per usual there will be bugs :D. Feel free to message me them as you experience them. I'm aware of a select few already that are on my list for tomorrow but I as always appreciate any input you guys have.

Thanks guys!

So over here at Quixotic we've been working at a feverish pace to try to get the MVP of Sodium up and running. For those who don't know Sodium is a free RMM software with the goal of becoming so much more than that. We made a huge step forward tonight (this morning?) having our production server go live and confirming that the backend is (to this point) working as intended! The front end is working as well but we have some major plans in regards to redesigning it to better suit everyone's needs. While this is very early on in the development process I'm really pleased with how this weekend went and it's not close to over yet. We've done some testing including putting together an environment of about 8 machines without any issues and are at this pointing looking for others who would enjoy testing some EXTREMELY early stage software with the goal of giving us feedback and finding ways to help us make it suit what everyone is looking for. Obviously as was stated this is a very early stage and the interface is still very rough so keep that in mind.

Hi everybody! I'm back! New news in the world of Sodium! We've released a new dashboard that is going to make your life (and ours) much easier! We've also locked down just about all of the login issues and sped things up quite a bit! It's been a massive undertaking today but things are looking good. Please check it out and let us know what you think!

For those of you that don't know us yet, Sodium our product is a FREE rmm software that is very new (only a few weeks into development, not even really a beta yet) with the goal of being much more than an rmm software. We're here to gain insight from the nice IT folk here and make a product that actually works for you guys!

Hi guys,

I worked through the night on this one and finally it looks like we have app listings working as intended again! Ironically there was nothing wrong with my code in the first place and it was a constraint issue -_- but whatever! I'll take it! Please take a look (make sure your machines are on or else there won't be any new update for you) and what not. Thanks everybody for all the testing, it really makes our lives much easier! Keep letting us know of any bugs you find.

Note: I do know that filesystems aren't fully pulling info at the moment and that is next on my list!

Hi everybody, just wanted to let everyone know that I am aware of the INSANELY long logout times going on at the moment and actually the fix has already been coded (and it will help with the storage side of things as well). I'm just waiting on my IT department to push to production. I'm not able to get in touch with them at the moment but hopefully it will be soon. Until then please just hold tight!

Youtube Video

Good morning ML,

So this is why I have been slightly more quiet over the past few days, I've been working on our helpdesk feature! Along with this announcement video, I just wanted to make mention of a few bugs that do come with this release that I'm actually working on fixing right now (and will be deployed in the morning).

1. Notes:
   Notes contains a few bugs, reason being is this was not the main focus right off the bat as there is no external portal so this is only so useful so far.

• Yes notes do work however I'm not happy with the entry process, right now entry occurs on an "enter" key stroke. I don't like this and it won't work for long docs etc so I'm going to be changing this.
• container for the notes does not have an overflow property yet so the container breaks upon too many notes being entered /facepalm

2. Last modified: doesn't reflect last modified obviously. Will be fixed in the morning release.

3. You can sort by column (except ticket type which will likely not be fixed immediately in the morning but probably a release tomorrow at some point)

Permissions:

• Edit tickets will allow a member of an account group to ....edit tickets....
• If a user does not have this permission, they will only be able to designate time worked on the ticket.
• If a user is not the "admin" account (original account) without the New Tickets permission they will obviously not be able to create a ticket either.

As per always, thanks for all of the insight on bugs and what changes you would like to see

And now I have pizza. I may not have beer, but at least I have pizza!

@Dashrender @dbeato and @black3dynamite Thanks for all the input! 2 bugs were found and corrected.

1. @black3dynamite I'm going to go ahead and remove the massive amounts of companies that were created due to this issue so that you can start fresh.

2. the login issue where it was jumping away from the password entry input was a routing issue that has been fixed.

We're going to be rolling out a release here in a little bit to resolve these issues. I'll make a post as soon as the deployment has finished. Thanks again everybody.

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done. (fairly certain being a racist falls in the category of being a dick)

Ironically development has just started picking up a ton again in the past 2 weeks! We've been a little quiet due to multiple members of our development team having some crisis level turn of events in their lives, that being said we're full steam ahead at the moment and have actually just brought someone else on to aid on some of the smaller pieces! There actually will be post in the very near future about some renovations taking place in regards to the helpdesk, cough cough reporting cough cough. Etc.

@dbeato Lot's of good stuff here. I've been in a bit of a transition (had to make some changes so that I actually had money to pay the bills) so that slowed how quickly I was pumping out fixes but I think we're getting to a point where I'm almost back on track. I'll be looking into all these hopefully later today.

Good to hear! Congrats @nic.

I'm honestly not sure why the installer isn't up there. It should be.... I'll take a look at this today and see if I can't figure out what release we ended up loosing it in. I'll get it back up there.

Sodium could definitely help out in a situation like this. We do monitor CPU usage and it's possible you could catch one of these spikes, etc. Plus we're active in the community so you can always get ahold of us if you have any issues.

Happy Birthday, @Dashrender!

@scottalanmiller said in In-house IM service:

Really basic and crufty messaging is build into Sodium as well, but will be getting a lot more robust in the future.

That's a good way to put it. About as basic and crufty as it gets but with plans to revamp with plenty more options. Just a matter of when.

Interesting. I'll be sure to look into this.

@scottalanmiller Wish I could blame one of the newbies on that one but it's more likely a result of a 72 hour binge coding session that never got fixed.... oh well.

@scottalanmiller Wow that needs to look better. Jeez that's making me blind. Fixing that....