CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 User Guide
Use the tools
Print this information
Search this site
Get started
Join a CollabNet site
Join a project
Get the code
Find a forum
Catch up on project news
Find project resources
Plan and track anything
Find tracker artifacts
Display tracker artifact information
Filter tracker artifacts
Search a tracker
Search for tracker artifacts
Find your own artifacts
Save a search for tracker artifacts
Share a saved tracker search
Run a saved search
Remove a saved search
Create a tracker artifact
Create a tracker artifact by email
Update a tracker artifact
Edit a tracker artifact by email
Edit multiple artifacts
Move a tracker artifact
Associate tracker artifacts with other items
Associate a tracker artifact with a document, task, or forum
Associate a tracker artifact with a file release
Associate a tracker artifact with a code commit
Make a tracker artifact depend on another artifact
Set up a tracker
Create a tracker
Enable or disable fields
Setting required or optional fields
Create user-defined fields
Configure tracker field values
Configure auto assignment
Change a tracker
Create a tracker workflow
Export tracker artifacts
Document your work
Find and view a document
Go to a document
Search for a document
Create a document
Edit a document
Update a document
Change the active document version
Lock a document
Unlock a document
Get a document reviewed
Start a document review
Read review responses
Edit review details
Send a reminder email
Close a document review
Review a document
Associate a document with other items
Manage documents
Copy a document
Move a document
Delete a document
Organize documents
Create a document folder
Rename a document folder
Move a document folder
Reorder document folders
Delete a document folder
Work on tasks
Create a task
Edit a task
Find tasks
Filtering tasks
Search for tasks
Viewing your assigned tasks
Update task status
Make a task depend on another task
View task dependencies
Associate a task with other items
Manage tasks
Copy a task
Move a task
Report on tasks
Organize tasks
Create a task folder
Rename a task folder
Reorder task folders
Delete a task folder
Manage task workflow
Alert project members about overdue tasks
Require approval for changing tasks
Handle a change request
Indicate task status with colors
Measure task workloads
Set the default task calendar
Manage source code
View code commits
Associate code commits with other items
Associate code with other items while committing
Create associations after a code commit
Create an SCM repository
Store your SSH key
Communicate with project members
Discussions and mailing lists
Create a forum topic
Reply to a forum message
Subscribe to a mailing list
Post to a forum by email
Associate forum messages with other items
Administer forums and mailing lists
Create a forum and mailing list
Change a forum or mailing list
Delete a forum message
Delete a forum topic
Project news
Post a news item
Delete a news item
Wiki
Start a Wiki
Add Wiki content
Create a new Wiki page
Search a wiki
Release products
Download a release
Create a package
Create a release
Add files to a release
Update files in a release
Delete files from a release
Update release attributes
Change a package's name or description
Associate releases with other CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 items
Delete a package
Delete a release
Watch for changes
Monitor an item
Monitor many items
Monitor an application
What am I monitoring?
Who is monitoring this item?
Configure global monitoring email frequency
Configure application monitoring email frequency
Monitor an item for someone else
Talk to CollabNet
Request a feature
Report a bug
SourceForge FAQ
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What is a tracker?
What is tracker workflow?
What kinds of tracker searches are available?
What software configuration management tools are available in CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
How can I stay informed about events on my SourceForge site?
What filters can I apply to monitoring emails?
What is a document in CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
Who can work with documents?
What is a task dependency?
What is a release?
What's the best way to search the CollabNet User Information Center?
Reference information
The Project Dashboard page
My Page
The Document Details page
Wiki syntax
Wiki editing buttons
Run a project
Print this information
Search this site
Create a project
Build your project web site
Create a project page
Build a project page
Create a project page component
Add freeform text to a project page
Add an activity table to a project page
List documents on a project page
Announce project news on a project page
Display project statistics on a project page
Add saved tracker searches to a project page
Connect a project page to a wiki
Reorder project page components
Hide a project page component
Rename a project page component
Delete a project page component
Control access to a project page
Reorder project pages
Hide a project page
Rename a project page
Report on project activity
Report on tracker artifacts
Save a report template
Run a report
Export report results
Delete a report template
Control project access
Control access by project type
Control access by user role
Create a role
Create a project administrator role
Change a role
Give roles to a project member
Assign roles to a user group
Assign user groups to a role
Control access by user class
Manage project membership
Add a user to a project
Remove a user from a project
Handle a request for project membership
Handle a request to leave a project
Create a project template
Categorize a project
Make other applications available
Link an external application
Change a linked application
Reorder linked applications
Talk to CollabNet
Request a feature
Report a bug
Project administrator FAQ
What is a project?
What does it mean to be a project administrator?
What is a project page?
What is a project page component?
What is a project page component for?
What is a text component?
What is a documents component?
What is a news component?
What is a Tracker Search Results component?
What is a project statistics component?
What is a wiki component?
What is an activity table component?
How do user roles work?
Who can access an application?
Who can access a project?
Who should I allow into my project?
Who can access source code?
Can I take away a user's SCM access?
Who can see a project page?
Who can see a project page component?
What is a linked application?
What is a project template?
What is in a project template?
How is a project template structured?
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
Reference information
The Project Dashboard page
My Page
The Document Details page
Wiki syntax
Wiki editing buttons
Manage a site
Print this information
Search this site
Manage users
Create a new user account
Create a user group
Add a user to a user group
Find a user
Edit a user account
Acting on multiple user accounts
Reset the admin account password
Support projects
Create a new project
Approve a new project
Rename a project
Delete a project
Update a project template
Manage project categories
Add a project category
Edit a project category
Move a project category
Delete a project category
Disabling project categorization
Change your site's look and feel
Customize anything on your site
Customize the home page of your site
Change a project's home page
Change your site's outgoing emails
Provide external applications
Create a site-wide linked application
Edit a site-wide linked application
Provide source control services
Integrate a source code server
Approve a source control repository request
Approve an unmanaged SCM server access request
Edit SCM integration details
Integrating an unmanaged CVS repository with
Create a loginfo trigger file
Create a modified verifymsg trigger file
Require documents to be associated with artifacts
Verifying server status
Supporting site security
Setting password requirements
Preventing cross-site scripting (XSS)
Talk to CollabNet
Request a feature
Report a bug
Site administrator FAQ
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What's the difference between a "managed" and "unmanaged" SCM server?
What is a user group?
How do I customize my site's look and feel?
What elements of a site can I customize?
Images
Stylesheets
Velocity templates
Arbitrary HTML
Email notifications
Scripts
What is the look project?
Reference information
The Project Dashboard page
My Page
The Document Details page
Wiki syntax
Wiki editing buttons
Use the tools
Print this information
Search this site
Get started
Join a CollabNet site
Join a project
Get the code
Find a forum
Catch up on project news
Find project resources
Plan and track anything
Find tracker artifacts
Display tracker artifact information
Filter tracker artifacts
Search a tracker
Search for tracker artifacts
Find your own artifacts
Save a search for tracker artifacts
Share a saved tracker search
Run a saved search
Remove a saved search
Create a tracker artifact
Create a tracker artifact by email
Update a tracker artifact
Edit a tracker artifact by email
Edit multiple artifacts
Move a tracker artifact
Associate tracker artifacts with other items
Associate a tracker artifact with a document, task, or forum
Associate a tracker artifact with a file release
Associate a tracker artifact with a code commit
Make a tracker artifact depend on another artifact
Set up a tracker
Create a tracker
Enable or disable fields
Setting required or optional fields
Create user-defined fields
Configure tracker field values
Configure auto assignment
Change a tracker
Create a tracker workflow
Export tracker artifacts
Document your work
Find and view a document
Go to a document
Search for a document
Create a document
Edit a document
Update a document
Change the active document version
Lock a document
Unlock a document
Get a document reviewed
Start a document review
Read review responses
Edit review details
Send a reminder email
Close a document review
Review a document
Associate a document with other items
Manage documents
Copy a document
Move a document
Delete a document
Organize documents
Create a document folder
Rename a document folder
Move a document folder
Reorder document folders
Delete a document folder
Work on tasks
Create a task
Edit a task
Find tasks
Filtering tasks
Search for tasks
Viewing your assigned tasks
Update task status
Make a task depend on another task
View task dependencies
Associate a task with other items
Manage tasks
Copy a task
Move a task
Report on tasks
Organize tasks
Create a task folder
Rename a task folder
Reorder task folders
Delete a task folder
Manage task workflow
Alert project members about overdue tasks
Require approval for changing tasks
Handle a change request
Indicate task status with colors
Measure task workloads
Set the default task calendar
Manage source code
View code commits
Associate code commits with other items
Associate code with other items while committing
Create associations after a code commit
Create an SCM repository
Store your SSH key
Communicate with project members
Discussions and mailing lists
Create a forum topic
Reply to a forum message
Subscribe to a mailing list
Post to a forum by email
Associate forum messages with other items
Administer forums and mailing lists
Create a forum and mailing list
Change a forum or mailing list
Delete a forum message
Delete a forum topic
Project news
Post a news item
Delete a news item
Wiki
Start a Wiki
Add Wiki content
Create a new Wiki page
Search a wiki
Release products
Download a release
Create a package
Create a release
Add files to a release
Update files in a release
Delete files from a release
Update release attributes
Change a package's name or description
Associate releases with other CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 items
Delete a package
Delete a release
Watch for changes
Monitor an item
Monitor many items
Monitor an application
What am I monitoring?
Who is monitoring this item?
Configure global monitoring email frequency
Configure application monitoring email frequency
Monitor an item for someone else
Talk to CollabNet
Request a feature
Report a bug
SourceForge FAQ
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What is a tracker?
What is tracker workflow?
What kinds of tracker searches are available?
What software configuration management tools are available in CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
How can I stay informed about events on my SourceForge site?
What filters can I apply to monitoring emails?
What is a document in CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
Who can work with documents?
What is a task dependency?
What is a release?
What's the best way to search the CollabNet User Information Center?
Reference information
The Project Dashboard page
My Page
The Document Details page
Wiki syntax
Wiki editing buttons
Run a project
Print this information
Search this site
Create a project
Build your project web site
Create a project page
Build a project page
Create a project page component
Add freeform text to a project page
Add an activity table to a project page
List documents on a project page
Announce project news on a project page
Display project statistics on a project page
Add saved tracker searches to a project page
Connect a project page to a wiki
Reorder project page components
Hide a project page component
Rename a project page component
Delete a project page component
Control access to a project page
Reorder project pages
Hide a project page
Rename a project page
Report on project activity
Report on tracker artifacts
Save a report template
Run a report
Export report results
Delete a report template
Control project access
Control access by project type
Control access by user role
Create a role
Create a project administrator role
Change a role
Give roles to a project member
Assign roles to a user group
Assign user groups to a role
Control access by user class
Manage project membership
Add a user to a project
Remove a user from a project
Handle a request for project membership
Handle a request to leave a project
Create a project template
Categorize a project
Make other applications available
Link an external application
Change a linked application
Reorder linked applications
Talk to CollabNet
Request a feature
Report a bug
Project administrator FAQ
What is a project?
What does it mean to be a project administrator?
What is a project page?
What is a project page component?
What is a project page component for?
What is a text component?
What is a documents component?
What is a news component?
What is a Tracker Search Results component?
What is a project statistics component?
What is a wiki component?
What is an activity table component?
How do user roles work?
Who can access an application?
Who can access a project?
Who should I allow into my project?
Who can access source code?
Can I take away a user's SCM access?
Who can see a project page?
Who can see a project page component?
What is a linked application?
What is a project template?
What is in a project template?
How is a project template structured?
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
Reference information
The Project Dashboard page
My Page
The Document Details page
Wiki syntax
Wiki editing buttons
Manage a site
Print this information
Search this site
Manage users
Create a new user account
Create a user group
Add a user to a user group
Find a user
Edit a user account
Acting on multiple user accounts
Reset the admin account password
Support projects
Create a new project
Approve a new project
Rename a project
Delete a project
Update a project template
Manage project categories
Add a project category
Edit a project category
Move a project category
Delete a project category
Disabling project categorization
Change your site's look and feel
Customize anything on your site
Customize the home page of your site
Change a project's home page
Change your site's outgoing emails
Provide external applications
Create a site-wide linked application
Edit a site-wide linked application
Provide source control services
Integrate a source code server
Approve a source control repository request
Approve an unmanaged SCM server access request
Edit SCM integration details
Integrating an unmanaged CVS repository with
Create a loginfo trigger file
Create a modified verifymsg trigger file
Require documents to be associated with artifacts
Verifying server status
Supporting site security
Setting password requirements
Preventing cross-site scripting (XSS)
Talk to CollabNet
Request a feature
Report a bug
Site administrator FAQ
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What's the difference between a "managed" and "unmanaged" SCM server?
What is a user group?
How do I customize my site's look and feel?
What elements of a site can I customize?
Images
Stylesheets
Velocity templates
Arbitrary HTML
Email notifications
Scripts
What is the look project?
Reference information
The Project Dashboard page
My Page
The Document Details page
Wiki syntax
Wiki editing buttons
CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 System Administrator Guide
Highlights of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0
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Search this site
Install CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 in a virtual machine
Get VMware Player
Get CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0
Upgrading?
Get the updater
Update the site
Configure the site
Start the site
Update user permissions
Run the site in a local language
Stop the site
Install CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 on bare metal
Set up new hardware
Get the installer
Upgrading?
Get the migration package
Copy configuration settings
Stop the old site
Preserve site data files
Configure the site
Set up the environment
Prepare the database
Set up an Oracle database
Set up a PostgreSQL database
Set up initial data
Start the site
Update user permissions
Install a different build of the same release
Patch CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0
Go to an arbitrary patch level
Revert a patch upgrade or downgrade
Remove a patch
Troubleshoot patches
Can't install patch
Patch installation fails
Protect Apache with SSL
Set up Apache for SSL encryption
Generate Apache SSL certificates
Prevent HTTPS cracking
Set up SSH tunneling
Back up and restore CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 data
Back up CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 data
Restore backed-up CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 data
Specify DNS servers
Monitor services on your site
Get information about a SourceForge site
Change the location of a log file
Let users see what's in a project template
System administrator FAQ
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
Where can I get more information about CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What does it mean to run CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 on a virtual machine?
What hardware and software is required for the CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 download?
What is in the CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 download package?
Why won't my CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 virtual machine installation start?
Why does my CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 site show a different time than the host machine it is running on?
What does it take to install SourceForge?
How many servers do I need to run a SourceForge site?
Which application runs on which server?
What RPM versions am I installing?
What hardware does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 run on?
What software does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 support?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 handle third-party applications?
Which ports should I keep open?
What are some good values for my PostgreSQL settings?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 manage security?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 help protect data access?
What user activities are tracked?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 help protect my data?
Does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 work with LDAP?
J2EE Architecture and security
What security tools come with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What is a CERT advisory?
What is a patch?
Reference information
Scripts
bootstrap-data.sh
collabnet
environment_check.sh
generate-site-options.sh
install.sh
snapshot.py
upgrade-site.sh
Log files
JBoss logs
Oracle logging
SCM (CVS, Subversion, and Perforce) logs
Email logs
Search logs
Configuration files
The patch manifest file
login-config.xml
httpd.conf
iptables
Highlights of CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0
Print this information
Search this site
Install CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 in a virtual machine
Get VMware Player
Get CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0
Upgrading?
Get the updater
Update the site
Configure the site
Start the site
Update user permissions
Run the site in a local language
Stop the site
Install CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 on bare metal
Set up new hardware
Get the installer
Upgrading?
Get the migration package
Copy configuration settings
Stop the old site
Preserve site data files
Configure the site
Set up the environment
Prepare the database
Set up an Oracle database
Set up a PostgreSQL database
Set up initial data
Start the site
Update user permissions
Install a different build of the same release
Patch CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0
Go to an arbitrary patch level
Revert a patch upgrade or downgrade
Remove a patch
Troubleshoot patches
Can't install patch
Patch installation fails
Protect Apache with SSL
Set up Apache for SSL encryption
Generate Apache SSL certificates
Prevent HTTPS cracking
Set up SSH tunneling
Back up and restore CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 data
Back up CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 data
Restore backed-up CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 data
Specify DNS servers
Monitor services on your site
Get information about a SourceForge site
Change the location of a log file
Let users see what's in a project template
System administrator FAQ
Who can help me with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
Where can I get more information about CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What does it mean to run CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 on a virtual machine?
What hardware and software is required for the CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 download?
What is in the CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 download package?
Why won't my CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 virtual machine installation start?
Why does my CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 site show a different time than the host machine it is running on?
What does it take to install SourceForge?
How many servers do I need to run a SourceForge site?
Which application runs on which server?
What RPM versions am I installing?
What hardware does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 run on?
What software does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 support?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 handle third-party applications?
Which ports should I keep open?
What are some good values for my PostgreSQL settings?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 manage security?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 help protect data access?
What user activities are tracked?
How does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 help protect my data?
Does CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0 work with LDAP?
J2EE Architecture and security
What security tools come with CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise 5.0?
What is a CERT advisory?
What is a patch?
Reference information
Scripts
bootstrap-data.sh
collabnet
environment_check.sh
generate-site-options.sh
install.sh
snapshot.py
upgrade-site.sh
Log files
JBoss logs
Oracle logging
SCM (CVS, Subversion, and Perforce) logs
Email logs
Search logs
Configuration files
The patch manifest file
login-config.xml
httpd.conf
iptables
CollabNet Desktop - Eclipse Edition
Background knowledge
What does CollabNet Desktop for Eclipse provide?
What are the CollabNet perspective and views?
CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise concepts
What is a tracker?
What is a task?
What is a document?
What is a release?
CollabNet Enterprise Edition concepts
What is Project Tracker?
How do I manage Project Tracker artifacts?
How do I search for Project Tracker artifacts?
What is Issue Tracker?
What does Mylyn provide?
CUBiT concepts
What is CUBiT?
What does the CUBiT plugin provide?
What is the CUBiT Domain?
What is the CUBiT Manager?
What is a Client Node?
What is a CUBiT host?
What are CUBiT user roles?
What is a CUBiT project?
What is a CUBiT profile?
How does tunneling work?
Getting started
Open the CollabNet perspective
Open a CollabNet view
Add a site to the openCollabNet view
Add a pre-configured CollabNet community site
Working with SourceForge Enterprise Edition
Add a new site
Add a tracker artifact query
Create a tracker artifact
Add a task query
Create a task folder
Create a task
Associate a task with other items
Create a document folder
Create a document
Create a package
Create a release
Add files to a release
Working with CollabNet Enterprise Edition
Add a new site
Working with Issue Tracker
Create an issue
Find Issue Tracker issues
Working with Project Tracker
Create a Project Tracker artifact
Find Project Tracker artifacts
Working with Mylyn task repositories
Working with SourceForge Tracker
Set up a tracker task repository
Create a SourceForge tracker task list
Add a tracker task
Associate a task with other items
Delete a task association
Working with Project Tracker
Set up a Project Tracker task repository
Create a Project Tracker task list
Add a Project Tracker task
Track Subversion commits
Working with Issue Tracker
Set up an Issue Tracker task repository
Create an Issue Tracker task list
Add an Issue Tracker task
Access comments within an issue
Update a task
Add attachments to your task
Add links to other tasks in comments
Working with CollabNet CUBiT
Get a CUBiT API key
Add a CUBiT Manager site
Open your site in a browser
View host information
Allocate a host
Release a host
Rebuild a host
Add an external SSH client
Add an external RDP client
Add a tunnel
Manage tunnels
Reference information
Issue Tracker attributes
Issue Tracker fields for queries
Background knowledge
What does CollabNet Desktop for Eclipse provide?
What are the CollabNet perspective and views?
CollabNet SourceForge Enterprise concepts
What is a tracker?
What is a task?
What is a document?
What is a release?
CollabNet Enterprise Edition concepts
What is Project Tracker?
How do I manage Project Tracker artifacts?
How do I search for Project Tracker artifacts?
What is Issue Tracker?
What does Mylyn provide?
CUBiT concepts
What is CUBiT?
What does the CUBiT plugin provide?
What is the CUBiT Domain?
What is the CUBiT Manager?
What is a Client Node?
What is a CUBiT host?
What are CUBiT user roles?
What is a CUBiT project?
What is a CUBiT profile?
How does tunneling work?
Getting started
Open the CollabNet perspective
Open a CollabNet view
Add a site to the openCollabNet view
Add a pre-configured CollabNet community site
Working with SourceForge Enterprise Edition
Add a new site
Add a tracker artifact query
Create a tracker artifact
Add a task query
Create a task folder
Create a task
Associate a task with other items
Create a document folder
Create a document
Create a package
Create a release
Add files to a release