Basic Configuration

Config Page

The main config page for Burndown can be found at (/admin/config/burndown).

There are two sub-pages within it:

A. Burndown Settings

This page contains a number of configurable settings, all of which have existing defaults at install time.

1. Enable email notifications? This setting allows you to turn on/off email notifications. Tasks (i.e. individual tickets within the system) have a watchlist that users can add themselves to (or removed themselves from). When changes are made to a task, the set of users on the watchlist will be emailed a notification, if the main setting is turned on.
2. Default geometric estimate sizes: This allows you to configure the default list of geometric estimate sizes for a task. Projects can be configured to use different estimation methods, so this will only effect projects that are using geometric estimation.
3. Default T-shirt estimate sizes: This allows you to configure the default list of T-shirt estimate sizes for a task. This will effect projects that are using T-shirt estimates.
4. Task resolution statuses: This allows you to configure the list of resolution statuses that a task can have at time of completion.
5. Task relationship types: This is a list of the types of relationships that a task can have with respect to another task (i.e. Task B is blocked by Task A). It is suggested that any relationship type should also have an opposite type (i.e. Task A blocks Task B).
6. Task relationship opposites: This defines which of the relationship types in the previous setting are opposites of each other. If a relationship type doesn't show in this list then it will be treated as its own opposite.

After making changes to this list, it is suggested that you clear the Drupal cache.

B. Default Swimlanes

This page allows you to configure the default list of swimlanes that will be created when a new project is added. The project's swimlanes can be separately modified afterwards; this is the initial list that will be automatically added for you.

There are two critical swimlanes that should not be removed here: The backlog and completed swimlanes. Both have special functionality with respect to the initial backlog and final completion boards.

Project board swimlanes have a label (the name of the lane, which appears at the top of the column on the main project board), a sort order (the order of the columns, by default), and separate checkboxes for whether the swimlane will show on each of the three main boards that exist per project.

Structure Page

The Burndown structure page can be found at (/admin/structure/burndown). This consolidates the settings pages for the various entities that the module uses. All of the entities are fieldable (i.e. you can add new fields to each of them in order to enhance functionality). The project and task entities are bundle-able, so that you can create different types of project or task (i.e. "epic", "story", "milestone") and have different configuration of fields for each of them.