Help for project members
Collaborating with others on a project helps you maximize your contributions, whether you are on site
or working at a distance.
- Get started
Take these steps to get started quickly and efficiently.
- Plan and track anything
Use the issue tracking system to track and manage issues such as product defects, feature requirements, and support requests.
- Work on tasks
Manage your project plan by defining units of work and assigning them to project members.
- Document your work
The document management system is a centralized repository for creating, storing, and managing information about a project.
- Communicate with project members
You can communicate with project members via discussion forums, mailing lists, wiki pages, and project news announcements.
- Manage source code
Browse a project's source code repositories for detailed information about code commits, changed files, and associations with other CollabNet TeamForge items.
- Provision hardware
Use TeamForge Lab Management to access virtual or physical machines where you can build and test your code.
- Build and test your software
When your project manager makes CollabNet Build & Test available, you can set up the CollabNet plugins for Hudson in your development environment.
- Release products
Publish the ouput of your project to selected audiences as packages and releases.
- Watch for changes
When you monitor an item, such as a task or a document, you are notified by email when that item is updated.
- How does CollabNet TeamForge support documents?
A key element in a successful product development project is ensuring that stakeholders from all functional groups are involved in an iterative document review and approval process, particularly for critical documents, such as Product Requirements Documents.
- Why don't I have access to the Reported in Release information in my artifact?
If you cannot see the Reported in Release information in your artifact ask your project owner to add the role required to obtain access to this information.
- What is change management?
Change management is about monitoring and addressing work items, product defects, feature requirements, and support requests.
- Where do I configure my client proxy settings?
Configure proxy settings in the servers file created when TortoiseSVN, Eclipse or Command Line Subversion is installed on your system.
- What software configuration management tools are available in CollabNet TeamForge ?
From within CollabNet TeamForge , users can browse the contents of a project's source code repositories, and view detailed information about code commits, changed files, and associations with other CollabNet TeamForge items.
- Collaboration tools
Collaboration tools help team members maximize their efforts by working together.
- Why can't I cut and paste project pages?
Project .html components do not copy to other mediums in the format visable in SFEE. You can link to the project page in other documents or create a screen capture of the the page if appropriate.
- What is TeamForge Lab Management?
CollabNet Unified Build, Integration, and Test (TeamForge Lab Management) is an integrated development environment with centralized control of code repositories, build systems and test systems.
- How do files get in and out of the system?
You have a home directory on each TeamForge Lab Management machine you have login access to. You can use this directory to store anything you want (subject to your organization's policies or CollabNet's TeamForge Lab Management Terms of Service): code for compilation, debugging logs, build artifacts, test results, etc.
- How can I improve response time on my TeamForge Lab Management box?
For speed and efficiency, consider SSH compression and forwarding many ports at once.
- How is installing software on a TeamForge Lab Management system different from installing on my own machine?
Installing software inside the TeamForge Lab Management environment is mostly the same as when installing locally.
- What happens when I change a TeamForge Lab Management password?
When you log into the CollabNet TeamForge server to authenticate your username and password.
- What is the Project Build Library?
The Project Build Library (PBL) is a place in TeamForge Lab Management where you can store, share, search, and download the products of software builds. Each project has its own Project Build Library.
- What is the profile library?
The Profile Library is where administrators and users can store, view, audit, and compare operating system profiles.
- 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.
- How do I select a profile?
You can compare profile definitions or installed packages. You can also choose between comparison diffs and unified diffs.
- Troubleshooting
These tips may help you diagnose and troubleshoot some common problems you might face.
- What Lab Management systems are assigned to me?
The easiest way to see what Lab Management systems are assigned to you is to check the My Pages page.
- What is a document in CollabNet TeamForge?
For CollabNet TeamForge purposes, a document is any file that you track with a document artifact.
- How do I configure email notifications of subversion commits in SFEE 4.x?
For SFEE release 4.x, email notifications is not available via the web UI, and will require extra commit hook scripts to be installed in the repository.
- What is a discussion?
CollabNet TeamForge discussions provide workspaces where project members can work together online or by email.
- What is CollabNet Build & Test?
CollabNet Build & Test is a set of five independent plugins for the Hudson continuous integration tool.
- What changes are required to make CSFE work as is when the IP address of the server changes?
Update the /etc/hosts file on the server and the dns record(s) with the new IP address.
- Does CSFE support using /etc/aliases for local mail delivery?
No, CSFE uses the James SMTP server, which does not use the /etc/aliases file.
- Does CollabNet TeamForge support merge tracking?
The Subversion repositories that are installed with CollabNet TeamForge run on Subversion 1.5, which supports merge tracking.
- Can I control which messages get posted to my forum?
If you are the moderator of a discussion forum, you can accept or reject posts sent to that forum.
- What happens when I post to a moderated discussion forum?
On posting a message to a moderated discussion forum, the message is archived in an unmoderated state, until approved by a moderator. However, the messages posted by trusted users do not require the moderator's approval.
- Who can be a moderator?
A discussion forum moderator is selected by the forum administrator.
- What filters can I apply to monitoring emails?
You can use X-headers to sort and filter emails sent by CollabNet TeamForge . Depending on the context of the message, custom email headers (X-headers) are added to the email. The custom headers can be used by email agents and clients to filter and sort email.
- How can I stay informed about events on my CollabNet TeamForge site?
To keep up with changes, you can be notified by an automatic email when an item you are interested in is updated.
- Can I move a discussion to another project?
No. Discussions cannot be moved between projects.
- What does the "psql: could not connect to the server: No such file or directory" error message mean?
This error indicates that the PostgreSQL database server is not running. You need to restart the server.
- What is a release?
A release is a group of one or more files that are published as a unit.
- Why do I get a proxy timeout when I try to view certain SCM pages?
If you are getting a proxy timeout error when you try to view a SCM page, you may need to configure the Apache 2.2 Proxy Timeout to 300 or less in the httpd.conf file.
- What's the best way to search the CollabNet User Information Center?
Searching this site with the Eclipse search tool is a little different from searching the Web with a service such as Google. Here are some guidelines for getting the most out of a search on this site.
- Why can't SFEE send my outbound mail?
If you are unable to send email directly due to firewall restrictions, or if mail is being rejected by the application server's IP address, configure SFEE to send outgoing messages through a gateway mail server.
- How do I create a local backup of a remote SVN repository?
You can back up your remote subversion repository to your local system by keeping a mirror copy of the repository locally using svnsync.
- What is a task dependency?
Task dependencies show what must be done before a given task and what will be done after the task is complete. Project managers can create dependencies between any two or more tasks in a project.
- Why can't I synchronize between Microsoft Project and CollabNet TeamForge ?
Some conditions, such as having tasks that are pending change approval in CollabNet TeamForge and Microsoft Project to fail.
- How are tasks synchronized?
CollabNet TeamForge tasks and Microsoft Project tasks are synchronized using an automatically-generated journal file.
- Why are Microsoft Project and CollabNet TeamForge doing things I don't expect?
When you synchronize Microsoft Project and CollabNet TeamForge , in some conditions where the tool works as designed, the behavior might seem unexpected. For example, an empty task folder in CollabNet TeamForge creates a blank task in Microsoft Project.
- What is a tracker?
A tracker is a collection of records that follow the development of a unit of work from conception through to completion. You can create a tracker to manage almost any kind of work that your project calls for.
- What kinds of tracker searches are available?
If you want to retain your searches for tracker artifacts, you can save them and share them with other project collaborators.
- What is tracker workflow?
To help users handle their tracker items effectively, you can set up some workflow rules. Workflow rules require a user to do something to a tracker before they can reassign it or update its status.
- Why do I get a URL "NOT FOUND" or "MOVED PERMANENTLY" error after applying a patch/upgrade?
If you are experiencing a URL "NOT FOUND" or "MOVED PERMANENTLY" error after applying a patch or upgrade Apache ProxyPreserveHost token to on in the httpd.conf file.
- What is an activity table component?
An activity table is a special kind of text component that gives project members quick access to a focused set of artifacts, action items and work products.
- 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 CollabNet TeamForge ?
CollabNet TeamForge is an integrated suite of Web-based development and collaboration tools that synchronizes distributed teams and disparate processes to simplify development.
- What is a wiki component?
A wiki component lets you link to an existing wiki page from a project page.
- Who can work with documents?
Any project member with the Document Edit permission can edit a document.
- My Page
Your My Page is a personal workspace where you can manage your personal information, your preferences, and your assigned activities.
- The Document Details page
Each document in CollabNet TeamForge has a Document Details page where you can find information about the document.
- Wiki syntax
This page describes the effects you can get by editing text on a Wiki page.
- Wiki editing buttons
This page describes the uses of the buttons on the Wiki pages for getting the effects you want.
- What fields are saved when I synchronize with Microsoft Project?
Microsoft Project allows users to track data using a large number of fields. Many of these fields map directly to fields used by CollabNet TeamForge .
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