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dotProject is a volunteer supported Project
Management application. There is no "company"
behind this project, it is managed, maintained,
developed and supported by a volunteer group and
by the users themselves.

Features and modules

Core Modules
The core modules that make up dotProject are the bare minimum
that you need to manage a project and your dotProject
installation. They all interrelate to varying degrees to build up a
project repository. The following list is in alphabetical order for
no particular reason other than an order is good.

Companies
Companies are the entities that group projects, tasks and users
together. You must have companies in order to be able to create
other dotProject elements. See User Manual - Companies,
Departments and Contacts for details.

Departments
Departments are subsets of Companies, allowing you to group
elements such as users at that level. At the moment there are
few filters throughout dotProject at the Departmental level but
some are being worked on. See User Manual - Companies,
Departments and Contacts for details.

Files Module
Basic files module which allows you to store files against a
project / within dotProject for access by project workers.
There is some basic file versioning built into the Files Module.

Forums Module
Very basic discussion forums module provides facilities for
creating forums against specific projects for recording
discussions / notes / information.

Gantt Charts
Gantt Charts are incorporated into dotProject courtesy of the
great project jpGraph. Charts are available at the individual
project and all project levels.

History
The history module provides an audit trail or log of changes
within your dotProject data.

Links
The links module allows you to record important or frequently
used links for all users to follow.

Projects
Projects are the overriding elements within which tasks are
performed. For example, you might say that you are using
dotProject to manage the process of Building Your House,
so you could have a project called "Our House". Within that
project there are then specific tasks that you assign to various
contractors / family members etc. See User Manual - Projects
for details.

Reports Module
We're currently in the process of moving reports from within
the projects module (and therefore many are hard coded to
the "current" project) into a module of their own. Will not be
available until dotProject Version 3.x

Resources Module
The resource module allows you to incorporate non-human
resources into a project (eg rooms / equipment etc.)

Smartsearch
System wide search module - within individual "modules"
there are search features, smartsearch works across all
modules.

System Administration
System Administration includes all of the setup options,
including establishing User Roles and Permissions.

Tasks
Tasks are the actual work components or jobs assigned within
a project. tasks are the components against which work is
done, hours are recorded, updates (in the form of task logs
are saved) and progress is updated.

User Admin
Module for management of dotProject users, able to login
to your dotProject installation and work within the
permissions scheme that you provide for them. What
distinguishes a user from a contact is the application of
a permissions role and therefore the ability to login.

Add On Modules
The following add on modules have been developed by
community participants to add specific fragments of functionality.

Eventum Integration
There is a first draft of module for integrating Eventum and
dotProject. There are some limitations in that logins cannot
be automatically shared between the two packages, but the
module does provide viewing of Eventum issues from within
associated dotProject projects. Please make sure that you
carefully read the installation instructions as if you are using
dP2.0.1 you'll need to update some files from the stable_2
CVS to make the integration work. See Eventum for details.

Help Desk
There is an add on help desk module which has recently
resurged into active support courtesy of one of the core
development team who has offered to take on the task.
The module was originally conceived as a replacement for
Ticketsmith and has had a rather rocky history in terms of
updates. It appears to now be powering ahead.

Invoicing
There is an invoicing module that allows you to generate
invoices from dotProject Task Logs See Invoicing for details.

Project Importer
There is a module that allows users to import their
Microsoft Project files directly into dotProject keeping
the dates, user assignments, and percent allocations.
It is known to work with Microsoft Project versions
'98 - '03 and dotProject 2.0.4. See Project Importer for details.

Ticketsmith
Ticketsmith is a third party legacy package that was
incorporated in the initial releases of dotProject for handling
incoming support tickets. As of release 3.0 Ticketsmith
will become an add on module, deprecated from the core
package and no ongoing bug fixes will be provided from
release 2.x onwards. See Ticketsmith for details.

Timesheet
There is one active timesheet recording program on
the dotMods project (plus some inactive ones so check
before you grab just anything). See Timesheet for details.

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