Administration
Instant Installation
You can instantly deploy YouTrack into an application server of your choice or run it as a separate process. In both cases, it works straight off: absolutely no voodoo magic is required to make it run. YouTrack operates using its own bundled database that runs in-process and requires no installation, meaning database integration will never cause you any pain.
Administrator's Area
Administering YouTrack will not require more effort than it's worth. In the Administrator's Area, you can:
- Configure access using four entities: permissions, roles, groups and users.
- Create new projects or import existing projects from JIRA.
- Schedule and launch database backups.
- Configure text indexing.
- Connect YouTrack to your directory service.
- Enable single-click OpenID authentication.
- Integrate with JetBrains TeamCity or Atlassian JIRA.
JIRA Integration
If you have an existing JIRA installation, consider importing your JIRA projects to YouTrack.
Just get a YouTrack plug-in for JIRA, choose a project and types of bugs to import, and make your issues available from YouTrack. You can import issues along with groups, roles, and group memberships, meaning that your users will be able to log into YouTrack with their existing JIRA credentials.
If you choose to work with JIRA and YouTrack concurrently, you can update issue changes from JIRA to YouTrack at any time.
LDAP Integration
LDAP integration lets you connect YouTrack to your directory service so that users in your organization are able to log into YouTrack with the same credentials that they use with other corporate applications.
This feature is only available in YouTrack Enterprise Edition. For Professional Edition licensees, OpenID integration is available.
OpenID Integration
YouTrack lets you enable authentication through any or all of four supported OpenID providers: Google, Yahoo, America Online, and Blogger.com.
Your users will benefit from a single-click sign-on functionality which is especially useful for casual bug reporters.
TeamCity Integration
By integrating with JetBrains TeamCity, you synchronize changes submitted through TeamCity with issue attributes in YouTrack.
For example, if a comment submitted with a TeamCity change contains an issue ID, the issue can be automatically marked as fixed and the Fixed in build attribute is filled with a corresponding build number.