OpsAdminInstallation

Introduction

When you are using Open Project Services (OPS) to collaborate on projects, you can use the OPS Administration application to add or edit projects and to get reports of projects' members time-sheets. The OPS Administration tool is a really just a friendly user interface for modifying OPS-relevant projects information stored your LDAP (en IMAP).

Project Management

You can create new projects or rename existing projects, add members or tasks to projects and change the status (either active or closed) of projects and tasks. Project tasks are grouped under quote tasks, ie 'what the costumer was promised'. Quote tasks have a time budget (estimate) and actual implementation tasks. Implementation tasks have two time estimates: total and todo.

When you change the name of a project or create a new one, the project's shared mail folder on your IMAP server is automatically renamed or created. All members of a (active) project are given access to the project's shared mail folder. While projects and tasks are 'active', project members can fill out hours spend on project implementation tasks in their time-sheets (you will need the OPS Timesheet plug-in for sunbird for this).

Reporting

The OPS Administration application also provides a GUI for retrieving and viewing the time-sheet reports in a number of formats (for example per project, summary over all projects, etc). You can easily add your own stylesheet format, as explained here: OpsAdminAddStylesheet.

Languages

Ops Admin is currently available in Dutch and English. During installation you will configure the reporting locale (euros or dollars) of your copy. Your browser settings determine the language in the user interface.

Get and install OPS Admin

You can find all ops downloads, including ops_admin and the ldap schema, on the ops Source Forge homepage: https://sourceforge.net/projects/ops/ It is assumed that you have the core of OPS (ops_project) up and running, if not please follow the steps to get it running: GettingStarted.

Keep the OpsProject settings at hand (opsproject.properties), you will need some of the same settings. And you will need to ensure everyone in the administrators group for OpsAdminis in the group set in required_role in opsproject.properties.

1. Check which version of ops_admin you need to run with the ops_project version you are using.
2. Get ops_admin, either a stable release or deploy the newest version off the sourceforge svn (subversion repository). Choose:
   • stable release: download opsadmin.war
   • latest & greatest: run svn checkout https://ops.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/ops/admin/ops_admin_webapp/trunk . to build in the current directory
3. Follow the instructions in deploy.txt (this file is inside the war)

-- IvanaCace - 24 Dec 2008