Admin Tool
User permissions
This section lets the admin to change the users permissions.
Project role |
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Project Admin |
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Release Technician |
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Tracker Manager |
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Project/Task Manager |
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Forums |
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Documentation Manager |
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Project role |
Add user to trackers
You can pick and choose which trackers this user has any privileges in, or simply add the user to all trackers by checking "Add To All".
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Add To All
Edit public features
This feature lets the admin to change the project description
Descriptive Group Name:
Short Description (255 Character Max, HTML will be stripped from this
description):
Homepage Link:
http://
Forums Tool
The forums tool provides projects with web-based discussion forums. This tool is used for group communication between the Computer Club Communications Software team. Members can post, search, and browse messages in one of three forms including Open Discussion, Help, and Developers.
Open Discussion
This forum contains message postings that may or may not pertain to the project. Here team members may freely chat about any interests or topics.
Help
This forum contains message postings that pertain to team member problems with the project or need for assistance in trouble shooting project problems.
Developers
This forum contains message postings that pertain to developer ideas and focus on project development.
How to use Forum options:
To open a forum page
Select the desired forum by clicking one of the blue highlighted text links
The view Forum page will open with the heading and contents of the selected forum
Users have the option to view posted messages in forums in either nested, flat, threaded or ultimate view and a desired amount per page.
To change to a different forum
Select either Open Discussion, Help, or Developer from the first drop down box
Click the change view button
To change to the way messages will be viewed
Select either Nest, Flat, Threaded, or Ultimate from the middle drop down box
Click the change view button
To change the amount of messages per page
Select either show 25, 50,75, or 100 from the last drop down box
Click the change view button
You may use a combination of the three at the same time
Select the desired preferences from the drop down boxes
Click the change view button
To post a new message
Enter a meaningful topic in the subject textbox
Enter meaningful statements in the message box
Click the post comment button to post the comment
Your message will be added to the top of the forum on the next open page
You may monitor forum by
Click the monitor forum icon
You may save your place in the message forum so new messages will be highlighted when you return by
Click the Save place icon with the pencil and paper
You switch over to administrator if you have granted access by
Click the Admin icon
Tracker Tool
This tool is used to browse, edit, and add items to the tracking systems including bugs, support requests, patches and feature requests. Tracker is an integrated support management tool used to report bugs, submit support requests, submit patches, and a suggestion box where people can post feature requests. Project members can post and respond to topics and are updates by email when tracker items have been changed to keep team members informed about project status problems and resolutions. Project managers may find this very helpful in correction response time, and requests by classification.
To browse edit or add items to the Bug Tracking System, Tech Support Tracking System, Patch Tracking System, or Featured Request Tracking System
Click the desired blue highlighted text link
Here a team member has the option to browse the desired Tracking System by selecting the desired information on tracking system using the drop-down boxes labeled
Assignee - This drop-box represents the project administrator to which a tracker item is assigned.
Status - This drop-down box represents the current status of a tracker item.
Category - This drop-down box represents the Category of the tracker items, which is a particular section of a project.
Select 'Any' for a broader result set.
Group - This drop-down box represents the Group of the tracker items, which is a list of project admin-defined options.
If you are a project admin you can click the '(admin)' link to define your own groups.
Sort By - The Sort By option allows you to determine how the browse
results are sorted.
You can sort by ID, Priority, Summary, Open Date, Close Date, Submitter, or
Assignee. You can also have the results sorted in Ascending or Descending
order.
Click the browse button to view the tracing system’s results
Members also have the icon options to Submit New, Browse, Reporting, and Admin
We have already discussed the admin icon and the others will be discussed in Bugs, Support, and Patches
Bugs, Support, and Patches Tools
These three tools can be grouped together due to their identical interfaces Bugs, patches, and support have the text icon options submit new, browse, reporting, and admin.
Submit New – This options allows project members to submit a new bug, support, or patch to the team and management
To submit something new click the Submit new icon
Select the desired information in each of the three drop-down boxes labeled
Category - This drop-down box represents the Category of the tracker
items, which is a particular section of a project.
Select 'Any' for a broader result set.
Group - This drop-down box represents the Group of the tracker items,
which is a list of project admin-defined options.
If you are a project admin you can click the '(admin)' link to define your own
groups.
Summary - The summary text-box represents a short tracker item summary. Useful when browsing through several tracker items.
Fill in a detailed description in the text box describing the bug, support, or patch. (DO NOT ENTER PASSWORD OR OTHER CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION!)
The comment text area allows you to attach a comment to a tracker item when a canned response isn't appropriate. You may add an upload and attached a file by
Selecting the browse button and selecting the desired file
Click the file and select open to attach, to cancel attachment select the cancel button. You may only attach one file per submission
Enter a file description in the text box below File Description
Click the submit button to submit the bug, patch, or support
The Browse Icon was explained in the tracker forum, please review the tracker forum for detail if you did not already do so
Reporting icon is part of the tracker reporting and is used by managers and administrators to review aging reports of the artifact types also known as Bugs, Featured Requests, Patches, and Support Request submitted by technician, category, group, and resolution. To view these reports
Select the an artifact type from the drop-down box which includes Bugs, Featured Requests, Patches, or Support Requests
Select the type of aging report from the drop down box listing Distribution by Technician, Distribution by Category, Distribution by Group, or Distribution by Resolution.
Select the time period of the project by choosing a desired number from the drop-down box after for and the drop-down box ranging between last day and Project Lifespan.
Click the show button to review the desired results
A report listing the data will appear under the search menu on a new page
The Admin Icon was explained in the tracker forum, please review the tracker forum for detail if you did not already do so
Lists Tool
This tool lets the admin to add and view mailing lists.
Tasks Tool
This Tool lets the admin to add a subproject.
Add
A Subproject
Add a project, which can contain a set of tasks. This is different than
creating a new task.
Update
Information
Determine whether non-project-members can view Subprojects in the Project/Task
Manager, update name and description
And also admin could report issues regarding the project.
Docs Tool
The Doc tool is a useful tool for managing project documents. It works as a document manager that posts any documents meant for project use. To ensure quality of the documents, the administrator must approve the document before team developers and members display postings.
The document manager has two icon options besides admin. They are submitting new documentation and view documentation.
To submit new documentation
Click the submit new documentation blue highlighted text icon
File in the two text boxes labeled
Document Title: Refers to the relatively brief title of the document (e.g. How to use the download server)
Description: A brief description to be placed just under the title.
Click the option box Upload Text File if Web-based file upload has been temporarily disabled; please monitor the Site Status page for updates
Select the language using the drop-down box next to language that you wish to use
Paste Document in html format if web-based file upload has been temporarily disabled
Select the group the document belongs to using the drop down box next to the heading
Click submit Information button to submit document for review
To view documentation
Click the icon labeled view documentation to view all project documentation approved for viewing
Surveys Tool
This page lets the admin to accomplish below tasks.
Add
Surveys
Edit
Existing Surveys
Add
Questions
Edit
Existing Questions
Show
Survey Results
News Tool
Admin can post news about the project and all posts will appear on the project summary page.
Files Tool
This tool helps to release files as open source. Only the Admin can do editing and releasing files from Edit/Release files section via Admin tool. A complete introduction and instructions for using these pages is available in our Guide to the File Release System (FRS).