Create and Edit Issues

Issue Area

YouTrack provides a common Issue Area for both creating and editing issues:

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To create a new issue, press Alt+Ins within YouTrack, or click New Issue. The Issue Area will display, letting you specify project, description, summary, priority and other custom attributes.

When you create an issue, Tag, Link and Attach buttons in the toolbar just above the Issue area let you assign a tag to the issue, link it to another issue, or attach a file or screenshot. You can also use wiki markup for special text formatting.

You can also strengthen the permission to your issue by making it visible to specific user group or leave it visible to all users.

After you have created an issue, click Submit, or press Ctrl+Enter to submit it.

To display the Issue Area to edit an issue, highlight it in the list of issues, and press F2.

If you have to modify attributes of multiple issues, don't open them one by one — use the Command window instead.

Screenshot Applet

YouTrack provides you with multiple ways to add attachments to issues. In addition to standard options such as attaching a file or image from the clipboard, YouTrack introduces a built-in screenshot applet to capture and modify any area of your screen. Select Attach->Screenshot, capture any display area, modify the captured screenshot with the applet's toolbar, and click the Attach button when you're done.

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'Create Issue' Bookmarklet

With YouTrack, you can add a "Create Issue" bookmarklet to the bookmarks toolbar in your browser and post new issues while staying exactly where you found them.

Create Issue from E-mail

Integrate YouTrack with your mailbox (IMAP, POP3) and report issues right from your e-mail client. You can even set up any command to be applied to a created issue, or add comments by replying to a notification email you received.

Command Window

The Command window lets you modify attributes of an issue or a set of issues using commands similar to search queries. For example, you can:

• Assign issues to a user.
• Change type, priority or any other attribute of issues.
• Associate issues with tags.
• Set dependencies between issues.

Before opening the Command window, highlight an issue in the list of issues, or select multiple issues by pressing Space or Shift+Up/Down (you can even select all found issues irrelevant of how many pages they occupy.)

Then click the Command button in the toolbar, press Ctrl+Alt+J, or start typing a command right away. In addition, commonly used commands are accessible via toolbar items.

In the Command window, you can enter one or several commands consisting of space-delimited keyword-value pairs (no colons, curly braces, or hash marks — as opposed to search queries). For example, to assign the selected issue or a set of issues to yourself, enter for me. Finished? Press Ctrl+Enter to apply your command.

Most YouTrack search keywords are applicable in the Command window, and completion works here as well.

See Examples of YouTrack Commands for more samples.

Wiki Markup

You can use special wiki markup in issue description, including links to other issues or external resources, code blocks, tables, headers and text formatting.

A link to the wiki reference page is available from the Issue Area. The page provides a sandbox window for you to experiment with the markup and copy the resulting text into your issue. See the sandbox at our own YouTrack instance.

Prettify - Code Highlighting

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Make the code inserted into issue descriptions or comments readable — by highlighting it!
We used standard google-code-prettify library for your code coloring, which by default supports C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, Perl, Python, Ruby and SH. Including additional parameters enables highlighting for more languages: apollo, css, sql, and more.