Thursday, October 29, 2009

Using CollabNet desktop explorers with Team Forge

There are a couple Windows desktop plugins that I've used for working with documents, artifacts, and tasks in Team Forge.

  • SourceForge Explorer - Windows .NET application that interacts with CollabNet Source Forge online web application to work with documents, artifacts, and tasks.
  • TeamForge Explorer - same .NET application as Source Forge explore but updated for new Team Forge naming and feature set.
  • CollabNet Desktop Windows Edition - a different (also .NET) implementation that seems to share code implementation with the Eclipse edition of the same tool.
  • CollabNet Desktop Eclipse Edition - plugin for Eclipse for working with code, tasks, artifacts, and Documents.
This can be downloaded from CollabNet:

http://desktop-vs.open.collab.net/servlets/ProjectProcess?pageID=3794
(goes to here: http://www.open.collab.net/servlets/OCNDirector?id=CICDWE1.2)

The latest Desktop Windows Edition seems to be pretty damn good. Best feature: you can edit a document IN PLACE. Click to edit, opens directly into Word, then when you save, it goes directly back to CollabNet. It even asks for a version comment.

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