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Revision as of 20:47, 12 March 2012

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 (--> storage) is also available as well as a automatically generated mailing list (--> mailing list). 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 accessed and 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"

Mailing List

You want to send an email to all project members (and managers)?

• Click on 'Mailing List' on the project's overview page in the services List

Wikis

Its simple:

1. browse the project,
2. click on "MediaWiki (internal)"
3. 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:

'''bold text''' -> bold text

''italic text'' -> italic text

* list element -> * list element

# numbered list element -> # numbered list element

Version Control (Subversion)

Subversion is a relatively mighty and therefore also complex technique to concurrently work on files. When people really work on shared 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. and you have webaccess to the current(!) revision (!no changes!).