TeamForge 8.0

CollabNet TeamForge® is the industry's only open and extensible collaborative software delivery platform for distributed teams. It enables organizations to improve collaboration, agility and governance by connecting teams, processes, IP and tools via a centralized, secure, web-based system. With TeamForge, your entire organization can collaborate and become more agile at scale. And it scales to tens of thousands of users.

TeamForge 8.0 highlights

Introducing CollabNet TeamForge 8.0

CollabNet TeamForge 8.0 is the industry’s most complete open Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) platform that enables and accelerates enterprise adoption of open source Git. It allows customers to leverage any open source or commercial tools within a highly collaborative, centrally managed and strictly governed environment. With TeamForge, enterprise software development organizations can accelerate application development and delivery by connecting teams, tools and processes with complete end-to-end traceability. Plan, build and deploy quality software faster, while gaining strategic value from Agile, DevOps and Continuous Delivery initiatives.

What's new in 8.0?
Project Teams Advanced data analytics and trending
Having a team-level view of releases and project activities is critically important for any distributed Agile project with team members across multiple geographies. Project Teams feature of TeamForge 8.0 introduces a unique capability to view the teams’ activities in the context of their daily jobs - backlogs, releases and sprints. TeamForge 8.0 gathers and stores data trends and associations across the entire tool chain. The stored data is accessible via REST-like Event Data Store API and can be used for producing reports on various activity trends - build, code review, work item, commits. The Event Data Store capabilities also allow pulling and analyzing data from various custom data sources.
Reporting Binary repository management
TeamForge 8.0 introduces a whole new way of creating, managing, and embedding saved reports in the project dashboard. Users now can manage all the reports in one convenient place. The all-new Unified Reporting UI combines modern dashboard capabilities with powerful report creation and management wizards. Binaries is a brand new feature that allows TeamForge users to seamlessly manage Nexus instances from within TeamForge environment with the project context. Access to Nexus is controlled via TeamForge roles and credentials.
Test management Enterprise Git management enhancements
Through integration with TestLink, a widely adopted open source test management tool, TeamForge now has the added capability to create test case trackers and associate them with requirements. TestLink uses a tracker to store test cases and tie test plans into builds. With TeamForge, users have the ability to execute test cases and store test results. Your development team can use Git, Subversion or both – in TeamForge 8.0 project roles governs access to all the tools used in the development process. Project access now can be granted to anyone in the company, including non-project members, or even anonymous users! TeamForge 8.0 also comes with a brand new Gerrit icon on a menu bar for seamless navigation between the projects and related Gerrit code reviews.

Get started with TeamForge

Start collaborating in TeamForge now.
Are you a TeamForge user? Start working on a TeamForge project
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Here's what it takes to work with TeamForge or lead TeamForge projects.

For project managers For project members
Project Dashboard Log on to TeamForge
Create projects Change password
Build your project home page My Page/My Workspace
Set up trackers Work with trackers
Create tracker work flows Work on tasks
Set up planning folders Work with documents
Manage your project with Teams Collaborate via discussion forums and mailing lists
Manage task work flow Work with source code
Generate reports Manage binaries
Control project access Provision hardware using Lab Management
Manage project membership Build and test your software
Work with linked and integrated applications Work with file releases
Provision hardware using Lab Management Monitor TeamForge work items
Wiki syntax

Tools to plan, track, search and filter

Search and filter Boards
Quick/Advanced search Planning Board
Tracker search Task Board
Task search  
Filters  
Full-text search  

Reports

Activity reports Agile reports Distribution reports Trend reports
SCM Commits Cumulative Flow Chart Status Distribution by Area/Group Average Age Report
Artifact Created Release Burn Up Chart Total Size by Area/Group Artifact Open/Close Chart (Multiple Trackers)
Artifact Closed Burn Down Chart Average Size by Area/Group  
  Committed vs Done vs Missed Total Size by Tracker Type  
    Artifact Distribution Chart (Multiple Trackers)  
    Artifact Distribution Chart (Single Tracker)  
Table reports Datamart CLI reports
Table reports: Task and Tracker reports TeamForge datamart schema CLI reports framework
  Access TeamForge datamart using external tools Upgrade CLI reports

Install TeamForge

Before you begin

Platform information | Software requirements
How many servers are required to run TeamForge?
Plan your installation | Set up networking | Open ports
Installation FAQs

Cross-project life cycle metrics reporting in TeamForge 8.0

As the new reporting framework is expected to evolve over the next few releases, unlike TeamForge 7.2 or earlier versions, TeamForge 8.0 and later have the life cycle metric reports feature (that lets you create and add cross-project life cycle metric charts to project pages) deprecated and turned off by default. While the new reporting framework makes reporting effortless, expect it to cater only to intra-project reporting needs at the moment. If you still want cross-project life cycle metrics reporting in TeamForge 8.0, you must set this REPORTS_ENABLE_LIFECYCLE_METRICS token to true. See REPORTS_ENABLE_LIFECYCLE_METRICS for more information.

Single-server setup

RHEL/CentOS SUSE
All services on a single: RHEL/CentOS 7.0 server | RHEL/CentOS 6.6 server All services on a single server

Two-server setup

Refer to the following topics if you plan to install TeamForge 8.0 on a two-server distributed setup.

RHEL/CentOS SUSE
Install TeamForge 8.0 on a server and:
Database and Datamart on a separate server Database and Datamart on a separate server
Reporting services on a separate server Reporting services on a separate server
Black Duck Code Sight on a separate server Black Duck Code Sight on a separate server
SCM and Git on a separate server SCM and Git on a separate server
Oracle database on a separate server Oracle database on a separate server
Git on a separate server Git on a separate server

Three-server setup

Refer to the following topics if you plan to install TeamForge 8.0 on a three-server distributed setup.

RHEL/CentOS SUSE
Install TeamForge 8.0 on a server and:
Database and SCM on separate servers Database and SCM on separate servers

Post installation

Supply license key: From TeamForge user interface | As a text file
Verify your TeamForge 8.0 installation
Maintain your site | Perform common administration tasks
Uninstall TeamForge 8.0

Install TeamForge on VMware Player or VMware ESXi

Hardware and software requirements for CollabNet TeamForge 8.0 on a virtual machine
Install TeamForge 8.0 on: VMware Player | ESXi
Configure CollabNet TeamForge on VMware Player
Supply your TeamForge license key

Troubleshoot common errors

Common errors FAQ

Upgrade TeamForge

Before you begin

Platform information | Software requirements
How many servers are required to run TeamForge? | Should I upgrade to TeamForge 8.0 on a new server?
Plan your upgrade
Upgrade FAQs

Cross-project life cycle metrics reporting in TeamForge 8.0

As the new reporting framework is expected to evolve over the next few releases, unlike TeamForge 7.2 or earlier versions, TeamForge 8.0 and later have the life cycle metric reports feature (that lets you create and add cross-project life cycle metric charts to project pages) deprecated and turned off by default. While the new reporting framework makes reporting effortless, expect it to cater only to intra-project reporting needs at the moment. If you still want cross-project life cycle metrics reporting in TeamForge 8.0, you must set this REPORTS_ENABLE_LIFECYCLE_METRICS token to true. See REPORTS_ENABLE_LIFECYCLE_METRICS for more information.

Single-server setup

You may choose to upgrade on the same hardware or new hardware. Refer to the topic that suits your needs.

Upgrade on same hardware Upgrade on new hardware
From 7.2 to 8.0 on: RHEL/CentOS 6.6 server | SUSE From 7.2 to 8.0 on: RHEL/CentOS 7.0 server | SUSE
From 6.2 to 8.0 on RHEL/CentOS | SUSE  

Two-server setup

Refer to the following topics if you have TeamForge 7.2 running on a two-server distributed setup and are planning to upgrade to TeamForge 8.0 on the same hardware.

RHEL/CentOS SUSE
Upgrade TeamForge on a server and:
Database and datamart on a separate server Database and datamart on a separate server
Reporting services on a separate server Reporting services on a separate server
Black Duck Code Sight on a separate server Black Duck Code Sight on a separate server
Git on a separate server Git on a separate server
Oracle database on a separate server Oracle database on a separate server

Three-server setup

Refer to the following topics if you have TeamForge 7.2 running on a three-server distributed setup and are planning to upgrade to TeamForge 8.0 on the same hardware.

RHEL/CentOS SUSE
Upgrade TeamForge on a server and:
Database and SCM on separate servers Database and SCM on separate servers

Integrate TeamForge with third-party tools

TeamForge supports integrations with third-party tools for versioning, reviewing, searching source code, binary repository management and test management. See Integrate TeamForge 8.0 with other tools for more information.

TeamForge event handlers

Custom event handling framework, examples and best practices
How to create a new event file?

TeamForge APIs

Note: API50 is present for backward compatibility and may be removed in future. API44 and API43 are removed completely.
What can I do with the SOAP API?
Get started with the CollabNet TeamForge SOAP API
Update an application to the TeamForge 8.0 API
How does an application interact with TeamForge SOAP services?
TeamForge services available via SOAP
What kind of clients can I call TeamForge SOAP services from?

Javadoc

Javadoc index

TeamForge architecture