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You have been invited to the sselab and you have no idea what this means?



You probably shall share some documents within a team and come to an integrated final document easily (--> version control) or shall collect thoughts, ideas, problems etc. (--> wiki).

Simple storage like Dropbox is also available. Let's forget about all the other services for now and lets handle this:



  • You need to make an account.

Having an account simplifies access when using multiple projects. All services and projects can be managed with one account (and password).


  • You got an invitation via email. Click the link in that email.


Invitation E-Mail


  • Choose 'Create new Account' if you don't have one yet.


Login Dialog


  • Enter some personal data, it is really helpful to use your surname as login (or another name that identifies you to the other team members).


SSELab Registration Form


  • You now have the account and are member of the project.


Registration Confirmation
  • This allows you to login to sselab and browse the project data.







What's next?

You can

  1. Browse the projects services
  2. Checkout svn (if it is a selected service)
  3. Look at the internal and external wikis (if selected services)
    • Note that the external wiki is globally visible, while only you can write
  4. Install the webdav (if selected service)
  5. Look at the mailinglist
    • BTW: When the project is called "example", the according maillinglist where you can reach all other members is "example@lab9.sselab.de"

Subversion

Subversion is a relatively mighty and therefore also complex technique to concurrently work on files. When people really work on share files concurrently, it's important to have versioning available: subversion does this! And to manage conflicts in concurrent changes: subversion does this too! (When a conflict arises or you want an older version you need a deeper understanding or have to ask. E..g. have a look here. For simple cases:

  1. You need to install a local subversion client. You may choose. XXX is quite good, but Eclipse plugin also helps.
  2. Please install your svn-client
  3. Checkout the files using the name and password of your sselab-account.
  4. Then you are ready to operate.

As an alternative for read only access:

  1. browse the project,
  2. click on "Subversion"
  3. (optional, first time only): enter your access data and password
  4. and you have webaccess to the current(!) revision (!no changes!).

Wikis

Its simple:

  1. browse the project,
  2. click on "MediaWiki (internal)"
  3. (optional, first time only): enter your access data and password
  4. and you are looking at the wiki. Its a mediawiki -- same syntax, same features.

This is just an abstrct overview -- see [http:/XXX here for more]:

  • To edit full page: click "Edit" on the left side
  • To edit a section: click "[edit]" on the right side
  • When the page is important and you want to be informed by email of any change: click "Watch"
  • Some syntax:
    • XXX