This site has been set up to maintain internal issue tracking for projects in the SPM group. It's a collaboration interface, and performs a different role to our main website, which is there to provide information to people outside the group. The main content in this site are:
- Projects
- Issues placed against those projects
- Notes
- Forums
When logged-in, SPM users can create new projects through the create content menu at the left. Note that only starred fields on forms need to be filled out. After creating a project, you then go back and edit it, and click on the issues tab to set up the project components to be used with the issues tracker. Once a project is created, issues can be placed against it, and notes can be tagged to it.
General messages can be created by selecting create content, followed by "Note". These can optionally be tagged to relate to a particular project or content type. This is essentially blog posting, and is expected to be the main means of collaboration and writing status updates.
Currently, unless specified otherwise, all content is visible to all site visitors. This can be changed by tagging a note or project as "Internal". There is also a "Public" tag, which currently has no effect, but will if we decide instead to make content private by default.
RSS feeds are available for most content. Token-based authentication is available to allow reading of feeds as a logged-in user. To find your token, go to the "My Account" page and select the "Token Auth" tab. This tag is then appended to the rss feed URL.
Most textarea content may be entered in several ways. The default is just in a HTML subset. This may be changed to LaTeX format instead by selecting from the Input Format options. Also, a rich-text mode is available, which is simply a graphical front-end to the HTML. (You can probably turn rich text on as well as LaTeX, and it probably won't do anything sensible).
This site is implemented in the Drupal content management framework. Some of the Drupal documentation may be useful in using this site.