Welcome to Panorama X Early Access

We're using Bitbucket to manage communication for the Panorama X project, including bug reports and feature requests. If you haven't done so already, please sign up for a Bitbucket account (free). Simply press the Sign up button in the upper right to get started. We'll wait until you get back...

Downloading and Installing Panorama X

If you are reading this, you should have received an e-mail with the URL for downloading Panorama X, along with an invitation code. Once you've downloaded Panorama X, unzip it and then drag PanoramaX.app into your Applications folder.

The first time you launch Panorama, the Site License wizard will appear. Use this wizard to create a new Panorama X account with your invitation code, email and password. Once you have created this account you can use it to log in on different computers. See "Managing Your Panorama X Account" in the Panorama help system for more information about using an account.

Automatic Updates

We will be publishing updates on a regular basis, and Panorama X can automatically detect, download and install new versions when they are available. Panorama X will check for new updates every time it launches. If you leave Panorama open all the time, use the Check for Updates command in the PanoramaX menu to check for available updates. (Note: Panorama X uses the popular Sparkle auto-update system, which is used by thousands of OS X applications.)

Issue Tracker

We're using BitBucket to help organize bug reports and feature requests (called issues). To see the issues simply click on Issues to the left, or click on:

Panorama X Issue Tracker

You can also create new issues and make changes to existing issues. Before you do that, let's talk a bit about etiquette -- with great power comes great responsibility :)

Inevitably there will be issues that wind up getting entered into the tracker more than once. However, for efficiency, we'd like to avoid that as much as possible. Since you've been given complete access to the issue tracker database, please try to check to see if an issue has already been reported before creating a new issue. In addition to the basic Find Issues search, there is an Advanced Search link that allows construction of very specific searches. (Note: In addition to open issues, you should also look at recently resolved issues. An issue is marked as resolved as soon as we fix it, but fixes aren't immediately published and available for download.) If you have new information on an existing issue, please add a comment to the existing issue rather than creating a new issue.

In addition to items in the issue tracker, ProVUE also has a database of pending features that are scheduled to be implemented but we haven't gotten to yet. Please check this list before you submit an issue that something is missing.

New Feature To-Do List

There is also a wealth of information available in the Panorama Help window (though the help is by no means complete at this time).

Markdown

Issues aren't restricted to plain text -- they can be formatted using Markdown syntax. If you want to include code in an issue, indent it by 4 spaces so that it will appear in a monospaced font, like this:

field Zip
sortup
select State="CA"

Markdown also allows you to display text in bold or italic, create lists, and create links to web pages. You'll find learning Markdown is very handy because in addition to using in Bitbucket, Markdown is also used by the Panorama Help system, and you'll see in a moment, you can edit this help text yourself.

Documentation Issues

If you see a problem in the Help documentation, you can fix it yourself and submit the change. In most cases this will probably be easier for both of us than the old system of trying to describe where the problem is and what change is needed. To learn how to submit corrections, see the Panorama Help Wizard page in the Help wizard. The Panorama documentation is written in Markdown (you can also use raw HTML, but should avoid it unless absolutely necessary).

Note: A copy of the original Bitbucket wiki welcome page is here