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For the eighth Lotus Quickr Template demo, you'll see QIssues, an all-purpose issues management and lifecycle tracking application. I say "all-purpose" because you can use QIssues for pretty much any type of project-related data collection you can imagine. Whether you run IT projects, marketing campaigns, six-sigma efforts, or more ongoing efforts like software development, QIssues gives you a powerful way to define the data you want to collect, collect and analyze it, and send issues through a workflow that you can define.

Similar in feel to QSurvey, the form creation process is very simple. A floating window lets you build questions for your issue form and submit them to build the form. There are a couple new types of questions not found in QSurvey, a member list and date control. Once the questions are built, you can move them around, define a layout (1, 2, 3 columns or a wizard) and - this is key - decide right at the form what kind of workflow to put submissions through. And of course, using the workflow engine we've bundled with several templates, you can define that workflow yourself.

Unlike survey responses, issues submitted with one of these forms are visible and editable - we want to be able to address the issue, send it through a workflow or notification scheme, and eventually "Close" the issue. Also, on the issue forms themselves, they are smart enough to know if you decide mid-way to add new fields or move fields, and will generate smart reports based on the original (hidden) ID of each question and not its position.

I'm confident you will find many uses for QIssues, probably way mor than I've thought of! So go have a look at the QIssues demo.

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