Frequently asked questions about managing projects
Use this background information to help support the work of project members.
- 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 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.
- How do user roles work?
Project administrators can define specific access permissions for individual project members. They do this by creating roles and assigning the roles to project members.
- Who can access an application?
Application permissions help you minimize the need to create and assign many similar roles for individual users. You can permit or restrict access to individual applications within the project for whole classes of users.
- Who can access source code?
Project administrators can give project members specific kinds of access to a whole Subversion repository or any path within that repository.
- Who can access a project?
You control access to your CollabNet TeamForge project by a combination of project settings, membership rules and user restrictions.
- 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 allow you to create and configure new projects quickly, enforce organizational standards, and facilitate process improvement.
- 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.
- How is a project template structured?
When you create a template that includes project content, each tool brings in its own kind of structure, depending on the type of content it manages.
- Why do you need the authentication and authorization plugin for Hudson?
The Authentication and Authorization plugin allows you to set up your Hudson installation to authenticate against a CollabNet server and specify access control for CollabNet users.
- Frequently asked questions about managing TeamForge Lab Management projects
You can use this background knowledge to help your project members use TeamForge Lab Management to build and test their code.
- Can the query result be listed without the issue id?
No. Query results can never be listed without the issue id because issue id is the only field which identifies each issue uniquely.
- Can the result of the query be personalized?
The result of the query can be personalized after the query result is obtained
- Does the project owner receive a mail when a discussion forum is started in his project?
Yes. Whenever a discussion forum is started the project owner gets an email.
- Do project owners get automatically subscribed to the discussion forum started by another member?
A project owner does not get subscribed to the discussion forum started by another user.
- How do I edit the predefined data in the various fields in the issue tracker?
Use Configuration Options to edit the required data in the fields.
- Is it mandatory to fill in all the fields while querying in issue tracker?
No. Required fields are indicated with a red asterisk. It is possible to choose only the required fields to narrow down the query for attaining optimum query results.
- Is it possible to edit several issues at the same time?
Yes. Multiple issues can be edited at the same time.
- Is the discussion forum creator subscribed by default?
Yes. The user creating the discussion forum is subscribed by default.
- What is the difference between a stagger and normal header in query result heading settings?
The normal and the stagger header preference setting allows you to set a standard header for your query view or a staggered header.
- What is report generation?
Report generation is used to drive the statistics of the issues stored in the database based on the required parameters.
- When a discussion forum is set up, do all members receive a notification mail?
Yes. A mail informing about the creation of discussion forum is sent to all the members of the project.
- Who is an owner of the subcomponent?
The user who creates the sub component is the owner of the sub component.