While Eventum is a great tool for our application support and business systems groups, I find it lacks a couple of features to also be great for project management. As a project manager, I've mentioned in the past in this forum some of the tools that would be great to have: in the advance search, a way to select all projects assigned to an individual (a checkbox would do), with a listing of the projects, and a list all issues of which an individual is being notified, not just assigned. In the project and user setups, it would also be great to be able to set more global settings; setting up the same categories or priorities for 30 to 50 projects is rather tedious and time-consuming tasks. While it is easy for a technician or developer to list what issues s/he is being notified about, I find it just about impossible, from within Eventum or without a decent SQL background, for me to list the issues about which a particular tech or developer is being notified.

What are the realistic chances for you guys (Joao, Bryan) to include such a feature right away? I need it badly and believe it to be important from a project management standpoint, especially to those of us who either don't have the time or the background to do the programming ourselves. Being that Eventum is project-oriented, I find it hard to believe that no management tools were included. I've sent Joao modifications that we made in the past (v. 1.4) to include such "All Projects" box, but I haven't heard from him about porting them to 1.5.4 or 1.6. We don't presently have the manpower to work in modifications to 1.5.4, which we are concurrently running to 1.4, and/or to upgrade the code to make it compatible to 1.4 or even 1.6, which has some better features from a project management viewpoint.

I haven't seen products like Eventum, so the inclusion of project management tools would make it a plus for many other people as well. I am very grateful for and truly appreciate the work that you do.

Thank you,

Joseph