Frequently asked questions about managing a Project Tracker site
As a Project Tracker domain administrator, you can define artifact types and attributes
for all the trackers on your site.
- 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.
- What is an artifact type?
Artifact types provide a unique set of attributes and options used to describe artifacts meaningfully.
- What is an artifact type? (proj admin version)
A domain administrator creates global artifact types that project owners can add to a project. As a project owner, you can create project-specific modifications to these artifact types, add global artifact types to a project, and delete artifact types from a project.
- What can I do with artifact types?
Project owners configure projects to meet the needs of their members.
- How do I avoid creating duplicate artifacts?
Project Tracker checks the database for artifact instances whose attribute values match the values that a user is currently entering.
- How can I enforce the workflow I've designed?
Project Tracker allows you to set transition rules that allow user to select some attribute options and not others depending on the existing values of the attributes. Your workflow consists of these rules, taken together.
- How does XML import work?
Importing an XML artifact involves extracting the contents of an artifact which have been earlier exported to an XML file. When you import the XML file, the content present in the form of artifacts is imported into the project and is re-arranged according to the structure present.
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