tag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:/discussions/suggestions/2077-customizable-milestone-states-and-datesLighthouse: Discussion 2013-10-16T23:19:22Ztag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/293949742013-10-15T00:36:17Z2013-10-15T00:36:17ZCustomizable Milestone States and Dates<div><p>Hey Eric,</p>
<p>that's an interesting idea. We are beefing up milestones in the
next version of LH, but haven't thought about adding states or more
dates. Very interesting concept.</p>
<p>We try to keep LH as simple as possible, so there may be some
conflict there! However for your date idea, I bet just abstract
metadata would handle that case.</p></div>Tiger Teamtag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/293949742013-10-15T14:16:56Z2013-10-15T14:16:56ZCustomizable Milestone States and Dates<div><p>Hello Courtenay,</p>
<p>Thanks for the quick response. Could you explain exactly how to
use the abstract metadata to handle milestone dates?</p></div>Eric Coletag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/293949742013-10-15T19:12:30Z2013-10-15T19:12:30ZCustomizable Milestone States and Dates<div><p>oh.. it is not actually possible right now. Milestones are
intentionally very simple. I was trying to think out-loud about
ways of implementing your idea.</p>
<p>Are you just thinking about one date, or do you have more data
on a milestone?</p></div>Tiger Teamtag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/293949742013-10-15T19:31:17Z2013-10-15T19:31:17ZCustomizable Milestone States and Dates<div><p>Just one date, yeah.</p>
<p>Right now for our compiled code projects there is a date the
milestone was made live, which is different than the date any
certain ticket was closed. For our web application milestones we
have a ticket state of live because we can make individual tickets
live independent of the milestone and the ticket state is changed
to live when it is pushed to the live environment.</p>
<p>Once all the tickets in a milestone have been fully tested and
ran through QA then the live environment is updated with the newly
compiled code.</p>
<p>If something ever comes up with a ticket and I'm asked when that
change was made live, currently I have no way of knowing that by
looking in lighthouse. I have to go to the compiled build and look
at the date, and even that can be inaccurate if the date it was
compiled is different than the date it was updated to live.</p>
<p>We certainly could track that date internally somewhere, but
right now we don't. It would be nice if we could keep track of that
in Lighthouse on the Milestone.</p></div>Eric Coletag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/293949742013-10-15T21:14:57Z2013-10-15T21:14:57ZCustomizable Milestone States and Dates<div><p>Hmm. For a quick fix, just change the milestone title or add it
to the<br>
description :)</p></div>Tiger Teamtag:help.lighthouseapp.com,2008-09-20:Comment/293949742013-10-16T22:35:01Z2013-10-16T22:35:01ZCustomizable Milestone States and Dates<div><p>Yeah, that's a good idea actually. We'll start doing that for
the date.</p>
<p>Would still be nice to have customizable states for milestones.
:)</p></div>Eric Cole