Concepts and terms in TeamForge

Descriptions of concepts and terms in TeamForge.

• What is a project?
  A project is a workspace where people can use the CollabNet TeamForge applications to collaborate and to create, store, and share data. All the work you do with CollabNet TeamForge is organized into projects.
• What is a project page?
  A CollabNet project page is a place where users can see and add information about the project, such as messages from the project manager, open issues or documents you want people to read.
• What is a free-form sub-page?
  In CollabNet TeamForge, a free-form sub-page is a page that doesn't show up in the project page hierarchy in the left navigation bar.
• What is remote publishing?
  Remote publishing is a feature that lets you create your project web site using your own web pages stored in your project's Subversion repository.
• How does TeamForge support dynamic planning?
  TeamForge helps you maximize your team's effectiveness by keeping you in close touch with the multiple moving targets facing your project.
• What is a project page component?
  A project page is a collection of simple portlet-like components that enable you to add custom HTML content, reports, project tracker queries, and much more to the project home page so your team quickly access what is important.
• What is a linked application?
  A linked application is an external application or site that users can get to from inside a CollabNet TeamForge project.
• What is a project template?
  Project templates enable you to capture and re-use the structure and content of existing projects, including project pages, custom tracker fields, and workflow definitions, to speed new project creation and standardize lifecycle processes.
• What is in a project template?
  When you create a template from an existing project, each project tool contributes its own structure to the template, and its content if you want it.
• What is report generation?
  Report generation is used to drive the statistics of the issues stored in the database based on the required parameters.
• What is a private IP address and what are the private IP ranges?
  Any IP address that falls specified ranges is a private IP address and is non-routable on the Internet.