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Introduction

Open Project Services (OPS) is a project collaboration platform. Get OPS to enable everyone working on a project to share project email - regardless of the message recipient and subject - and to log time spent on individual project tasks. OPS also allows you to get up-to-date reports of the time spent, filtered by timframe, project or person.

OPS allows you to use your standard mail, directory service and calendar software to collaborate on projects, and to reduce tedious, repetitive tasks and overhead. It consists of a core project server, a number of auxiliary components and a set of client extensions. The core of OPS integrates the server components such as e-mail, ldap and fileshare with standards complient clients.

Project Management

You can use the OPS web interface to create projects, assign project members and define project tasks. The projects are stored in your ldap.

Email

OPS will create a project IMAP folder and give project members access to this mailbox. With the mail client plugin users can assign emails to any project they are a member of, doing so will put the email in the project folder that is accessible to all project members.

Time-tracking

Using the calendar extension project members can log the time they spent on each of the project tasks.

Reporting

The calendar logs can be turned into different kinds of reports. A detailed report allows you to compare the original time budget set for each project task, with the time currently spent. A summary report will show the total time spent on each project. Reports can be limited to a time frame, a person or a project. Currently four reporting styles are available but it is easy to add a stylesheet that serves your specific reporting needs. For reporting examples see OpsAdminManual.

OPS Project also provides a web interface for archiving calendar files, once archived the files can still be used for reporting but they can no longer be altered.

Screenshots

View more OpsScreenshots.

Component overview

OpsOverview shows in more detail how the OPS components are wired.

Versions

Versions for server components:

changes	OPS project	OPS MailProxy	mail cache	OPS WebDav filter	OPS timesheet proxy	OPS Admin
	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.1
ldap: task is now child, not attribute of project	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2
ldap: quote tasks with implementation tasks, task estimates	0.3	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.2	0.4

Resources

Open project Services is hosted on SourceForge. The project's homepage is: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ops/ Here you can download all of OPS (including source code) as wel as view the mailinglists, bugtracker etc.

Ops server installation instructions

• GettingStarted - ties the various parts together
• LDAPInstallationManual - Instructions on how to install LDAP and add the opsschema
• IMAPServerInstallInstructions - Instructions on installing Courier-IMAP for OPS
• SquirrelMailPluginInstallation - Instructions on installing SquirrelMail and the Ops SquirrelMail plugin
• OpsProjectWebservicesInstall - Instructions on how to install the webservices required for Ops
• WebDavInstallation - Instructions on how to set up webdav with authentication
• OpsEmailImapProxy - Instructions on how to install the OPS IMAP proxy and the OPS e-mail cache.
• OpsLDAPLayout - instructions on configuring LDAP for ops and how to a manually edit LDAP when you company gets new employee of when employees leave
• OpsAdminInstallation - Instructions on how to install the OPS Amin application

Extension installation instructions

• OpsEmailThunderbirdExtensionInstallation - installation instructions for Ops Thunderbird extension.
• OpsCalendarPluginInstallation - Instructions on how to install the OpsCalendar Sunbird/lightning extension.
• OpsTimesheetPluginInstallation - Instructions on how to install the OpsTimesheet Sunbird/lightning extension.

End users manuals

• OpsEmailSquirrelMailPlugin - user instructions for the Ops SquirrelMail plugin
• OpsEmailThunderbirdExtension - user instructions for Ops Thunderbird extension
• OpsCalendarPlugin - user instructions for the OpsCalendar extension for Sunbird
• OpsTimesheetPlugin - user instructions for the OpsTimesheet extension for Sunbird/lightning
• OpsTimesheetHttpClient - user instructions for the OpsTimesheetHttpClient (reports/archiving)
• OpsCalendarArchiving - instructions on how to archive your calendar entries of previous years to speedup the calendar client(Administrators can do this for every user)
• OpsAdminManual - end user manual for OPS Admin

Other

• OpsAdminAddStylesheet - Instructionsfor adding a custom reporting stylesheet to opsadmin
• MigrateToOpsV03 - A walkthrough for upgrading ops project ldap backend from version 0.2 to 0.3
• MigratingToOpsV02 - A walkthrough for upgrading from version 0.1.x to 0.2

Older

Some parts of ops are not maintaned anymore but are stil available for download. Here is a list of the installation instructions and manuals for the componets that are no logenr maintained:

• OpsBlogInstallation - Instructions on how to install the OpsBlog serendipity plugin.
• OpsBlogUsage - user instructions for the Serendipity plugin.
• OpsLDAPEditorPluginInstallation - Instructions on how to install the OPS plugin for JXplorer. (deprecated, use ops admin instead)
• OpsLDAPEditorPluginUsage - user instructions for the OPS JXplorer plugin. If you want to use phpLDAPadmin, see UsePhpLDAPAdminForOps on user instructions.

If you are using an older version of OpenOffice or MS Excel, you can use the TimesheetHttpClient with OpenOffice Addons to import reports based on project time logs directly in your office document. Because the addons dont work with current Office tools, the addons and the TimesheetHttpClient are no longer maintained. If you still want to use them, you can find instructions here:

• OpsTimesheetHttpClientInstallation - Instructions on how to install the OpsTimesheet servlet.
• OpenOfficeAddonInstallation - Instructions on howto install and configure the OpenOffice plugin.
• OpenOfficeAddonTemplate - Customizing the OpenOffice template.
• OpenOfficeAddonUsage - user instructions for the OpenOffice plugin.

-- IvanaCace - 23 Dec 2008