Getting Started
Welcome to Lighthouse Keeper, the best issue tracking experience on the Mac. This section will get you started with Lighthouse Keeper and give you a quick tour of the interface. If you haven't done already you'll need to download the latest version from here.
Installation
Installing Lighthouse Keeper is easy. If you downloaded Lighthouse Keeper from the M Cubed website you should have a disk image in your downloads folder. Simply mount it by double clicking on it (if it isn't already mounted) then drag Lighthouse Keeper to the Applications folder. You may want to put Lighthouse Keeper in your dock for easy access.
If you purchased Lighthouse Keeper from the Mac App Store it should already be installed in your Applications folder
First Launch
If this is the first time you have launched Lighthouse Keeper you will be greeted with a sheet to help you set things up. Simply enter your login details for Lighthouse and the first account you wish to download data from (don't worry if you can't choose, you can add more accounts later). Click Next and Lighthouse Keeper will begin to download your projects, milestones, users, ticket bins and tickets. Once it has finished click Finish to start using Lighthouse Keeper
Registration (website version only)
If you have launched Lighthouse Keeper before but haven't registered you will be greeted with the registration sheet. This pops up on launch until you register Lighthouse Keeper. You can use Lighthouse Keeper for 14 days before you need to purchase. If you haven't purchased a licence yet you can go to our store by clicking on the Buy Licence button. Once you have bought a licence, enter the details from your email into the text fields and click Register. If you do not wish to register Lighthouse Keeper yet you can click Later to use Lighthouse Keeper with the limitations.
The Lighthouse Keeper Interface
Lighthouse's UI is similar to many applications on Mac OS X such as Apple's Mail application. On the left is your source list (1). This contains your projects, milestones and ticket bins. In the top right is the ticket list (2). This shows all the tickets in the projects, milestone or ticket bin selected on the left. Select a ticket in this list to view its details below in the ticket details pane (3) and its attachments in the attachments pane (4). To modify, create or search tickets use the toolbar items (5) and to modify projects, milestones and ticket bins use the buttons at the bottom of the source list (6). To find out more about these in detail use the links on the right of this page. The Activity Viewer (7) lets you keep track of what Lighthouse Keeper is currently doing.
