What can I find out about a profile?

Profiles in TeamForge Lab Management contain a great deal of information, and they are also versioned, so not only is the information they contain important, but it is also important to be able to understand how those changes differ between versions.

Information about profiles and versions is shown on the Version Details page. To reach this page, select a profile in the Profile Library and click the Version Details tab.

Profile Information

The profile information section shows some basic facts about the profile at each version:

This basic profile information is always displayed, regardless of the other viewing options you have selected

Build Counts

The build count information offers a simple measure of each profile's popularity. It tracks:

To display build count information, select Build counts and click Update

Subversion (SVN) Commit Details

The SVN commit details for each profile revision give some information, at the low-level repository level, about changes made to the profile. This information will not generally be useful to project admins or users, but is occasionally vital. This section shows:

To show the SVN commit details, select SVN Commit Details and click Update.

Hardware restrictions

The hardware restrictions for each profile govern the ability, based on the allowable hardware required by the operating system profile to run, of the profile to be assigned to a given host. Using the Profile Administration screen, project admins can set various restrictions on the hardware required to run a given profile.

Not having any hardware restrictions on the profile does not guarantee that it will run on any hardware, but it is more of an assurance. The available restrictions which will be listed are:

You can display the hardware restrictions by checking the box labeled Hardware Restrictions and clicking on the Update button.

Logo Image

The project administrator for the profile can set up a logo image for the profile, which will appear here if requested.

To show the profile logo, select Logo and click Update.