GettingStarted

What are the different components and what do they do?

• OpsProject - This is the hart of the system, it serves out the project information and such. It is a J2EE? application that uses Apache Axis to serve out webservices. These webservices get their information from ldap and ics files stored on a webdav or local location.
• OpsTimesheet - This part takes care of houre registration and the various rapports that are needed.
  • The HttpClient - Is a servlet that takes parameters in the adress, calls the needed webservices and transforms the result with xslt into a rapport you can integrate in office applictions such as OpenOffice calc and Microsoft Excel
  • The Sunbird Plugin - Extends Mozilla Sunbird so that you can use it to register your work houres and couple them to a project and a task and define them as (un)declarable.
• OpsEmail
  • The Squirrelmail Plugin - enables OPS e-mail functions for Squirrelmail.
  • The Thunderbird Plugin - enables OPS e-mail functions for Thunderbird.
• OpsCalendar - Integrates calendar aplications with project related data.
  • The Sunbird Plugin - Extends Mozilla Sunbird so that events can be coupled to a project.
• OpsDocument - Defines a webdavlocation with custom authentication for each project, the authentication is realized in a tomcat filter in combination with its built-in webdav servlet.
• OpsContact - An editor for projects, contacts and companies.
• OpsAdmin - A webbased tool for editing project information: members, status, tasks and project manager, creating new projects and for accessing project members' timesheets.

Requirements: what do you need to get started.

• A unix machine to serve as the project server on which OpsProject, the TimesheetHttpClient and Webdav will run.
• A Java application server for running the webservices and TimesheetHttpClient(like Jakarta Tomcat)
• An IMAP e-mail server installed on the same server(we use Courier-IMAP, not tested with any other IMAP server)
• The Ops IMAP Proxy
• An installed OpenLDAP server with a back-hdb backend and with OPS schema's and settings.

Which steps should you take to get a working OPS enviroment

1. Install OpenLDAP on the server: LDAPUserManual
2. Install Courier-IMAP on the server: IMAPServerInstallInstructions
3. Install the Ops IMAP Proxy: OpsEmailImapProxy
4. Install Jakarta Tomcat on port 8080 (we use version 5.0.28, not tested with other versions)
5. Install OpsProject: OpsProjectWebservicesInstall
6. Install Webdav: WebDavInstallation
7. Install TimesheetHttpClient: OpsTimesheetHttpClientInstallation
8. Install Squirrelmail and the OPS plugin for Squirrelmail: SquirrelMailPluginInstallation
9. Server installation complete!

Mozilla Thunderbird and Sunbird require additional extensions to be installed to enable OPS functionality, these extensions need to be installed at every client.

• OPS timesheets: OpsTimesheetPluginInstallation
• OPS calendars: OpsCalendarPluginInstallation
• OPS e-mail: OpsEmailThunderbirdExtensionInstallation

If you want to manage your OPS install (I guess you do), use the JXplorer plugin which ties everything together:

• OpsLDAPEditorPluginInstallation

-- IvoVanDongen - 09 Nov 2005