What is involved in administrating Project Tracker?

The Project Tracker tool enables you to create and configure the building blocks of a project. Project Tracker is optimized for distributed work environments, allowing people to access the same project information over the Web.

Examples of artifact types include Request for Enhancement, Requirement, Task, Test Plan, and so on. Artifact types consist of a set of attributes. For example, a Defect may contain a Summary, an Originator, an Assigned To field, and a Description.

Project Tracker is integrated with the other tools in the CollabNet environment, so that members of a project that uses Project Tracker automatically have access to the same version control system, project-specific discussions, and other important project-specific tools.

The role of a Project Tracker administrator includes the following duties:

• Managing user roles
• Creating and managing artifact types
• Creating and managing global and user attributes
• Adding users and approving user requests

Project tracker administration is done on two levels: globally and per project. A domain administrator defines artifact types and attributes on a global level, and project administrators add these elements to specific projects. The initial administrative workflow is as follows:

• Administrators with the domain administrator role define global elements, including global artifact types, attributes, and attribute options.
• Administrators with project owner or domain administrator roles can add global artifact types to projects, and customize artifact types by adding new attributes, selecting options for those attributes, and activating duplicate checking.
• People with different levels of permission can further refine the end user experience by creating global artifact entry templates, global queries, adding users to user attributes, and granting users different levels of access.