Patent ID: 8694558
Filing Date: 2014-04-08
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
1. A method for tracking work in a database environment, the method comprising: providing, by an on-demand database services system, a software application implemented on a cloud platform of the on-demand database services system to different users accessing the on-demand database services system via different user systems via a network; generating, by the on-demand database services system, a plurality of work records in data storage of the on-demand database services system, wherein each work record has a unique identification label and is associated with code for new functionality or a bug fix that is written by a respective user of the different users and submitted via a respective user system of the different user systems for integration into the software application to provide one or more changes to the software application implemented on the cloud platform of the on-demand database services system; receiving, by the on-demand database services system, a first indication from a first user of the different users that designates a first work record of the plurality of work records as a parent work record; and receiving, by the on-demand database services system, a second indication from the first user that designates a second work record of the plurality of work records as a child work record, wherein the second work record is a child of the first work record.