Ganib | Project Management Software Files

                     Ganib v5.0 Software License
 *
 * Ganib | Online web based project planning, collaboration and management software.
 * Copyright (c) 2011-2013 Ganib Enterprises. All rights reserved.
 *
 * Use this license to use or redistribute the Ganib software v1.0+ and later versions.
 *

 * For free support for Ganib users, questions should be posted to the community of
 * Ganib users at help.ganib.com.

CONTENTS

1) FEATURES
2) REQUIREMENTS
3) INSTALLATION

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Ganib V5.0 Release notes
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Click here to know about whats new with Ganib 5.0 Version

http://help.ganib.com/faq/content/31/272/en/what_s-new-with-ganib-50.html


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FEATURES
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-- Import Export MSP
        100% Compatible with Microsoft Project format (XML)
-- Timesheet
        Easy to use Timesheet with Monthly, Weekly & Assignments view
-- Plan and Manage
        Feature rich Workplan with single page management
-- Internal chat
        Easy communication with inbuilt Instant Messanger
-- Time Tracking
        Automated time tracking with Gtrack tool.
-- Collaboration
        Collabroate with team using Blogs, Wiki & Discussions
-- Lists
        Forms & Filters
-- Themes
        Themes which can be set as per the users liking
-- Reports
        Reports with visual graphs.
-- LDAP
        Lightweight Directory Authentication Protocol support.


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REQUIREMENTS
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-- Apache tomcat6/7
-- JAVA 6/7
-- MySQL-5.1 & above

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        INSTALLATION
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1) Make sure that MySQL & Apache Tomcat is installed on system.

2) Download mysql-connector-java.jar & mail.jar and copy it to tomcat_home/lib/ directory
   mysql-connector-java : http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/Connector-J/mysql-connector-java-5.1.32.zip
   mail : http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/maven2/javax/mail/mail/1.4/mail-1.4.jar

2) Move war file to tomcat webappas directory.
   -- mv ganib.war TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/

3) Now edit TOMCAT_HOME/conf/context.xml file to change database connection properties.
      < Resource name="jdbc/GanibDB"
             auth="Container"
             type="javax.sql.DataSource"
             username="root" password=""
             driverClassName="com.mysql.jdbc.Driver"
             url="jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/ganib?autoReconnect=true&amp;useUnicode=true&amp;characterEncoding=utf-8"
             maxActive="125"
             maxIdle="25" />

4) Replace username, password & database name from url.

5) To change SMTP settings you need to edit TOMCAT_HOME/conf/context.xml & edit below lines.

< Resource
     name="mail/GanibSession"
     type="javax.mail.Session"
     auth="Container"
     mail.smtp.host="localhost"
     mail.smtp.auth="false"
     mail.smtp.user="username"
     password="password"
     mail.smtp.port="25"
     mail.transport.protocol="smtp"
     mail.debug="true"
/>


6) Bydefault ganib run on port 8080. If port 8080 is already in use, you can change port by editing tomcat_home/conf/server.xml.
< Connector port="7070" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
                URIEncoding="UTF-8"
               redirectPort="8443"
/>
7) Change connector port from above lines to run ganib on another port.

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MySQL Database
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Now you need to import database script files.

     mysql -u root -p
     mysql > CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
     mysql > exit;
     mysql -h host -u root -p ganib < PATH_TO_ganib_dir/database/ganib.sql

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8) Now you need to start ganib with below commands.
    -- tomcat_home/bin/startup.sh --or-- service tomcat6/7 start

9) If everything is configured as per above instructions. you can access it using web browser. Enter below url in web browser.

http://localhost:8080/ganib/

Replace "localhost" with your system IP address. Also you need to replace port no if you've changed it.

That's it !!!!!

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CHANGELOG (Ganib v5.0)
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This page contains a brief overview of modificatins from v3.4 to v5.0.

New Features (http://help.ganib.com/faq/content/31/272/en/what_s-new-with-ganib-50.html)

      *) Security module is altogether improved along with a more user friendly UI and much more securities one can provide to the Users.
      *) New feature is added in Resources tab that the project manager can set each resource as billable or non-billable.
      *) Added a new report in its list of stunning reports. The Resource Journal helps you in viewing the assigned and worked hours of Account and Project wise resources at a glance.
      *) Clients, Partners, Associates, Corporate gurus and other timekeepers bill their time with respect to tasks and not people.
         Ganib gives you an aid to this and allows you to mark your tasks as billing ones.
      *) Timeline view, which lets you have an overview of your Plan.
      *) introduced overlays on all the pages to let the first time users
      *) introduced a new feature Pivot Report which is clubbed with the List module
      *) Resource Allocation with Hard Limits
      *) Instant messaging on plan module
      *) Alerts on Plan edit
      *) User Defined Fields in Plan
      *) Readymade List Templates
      *) share your created lists along the project’s hierarchy.
      *) User defined fields in Project Properties.
      *) Auto registration for LDAP members
      *) More sophisticated UI for plan properties which will make you understand all the features in it properly


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Issues & Fixes

      *) Fixed Permission issues
      *) Optimized for large dataset imports in XML format.
      *) Render queue issue while loading projects is fixed
      *) Fixed GUI issues for Below Modules.
         -- LDAP configuration
         -- calender
         -- plan
         -- task view
         -- schedule properties
         -- List Module
         -- Charting and reports
         -- Breadcrumbs
         -- Subscription module

      *) Fixed browser compatibility issues with PLAN.
      *) Listing issue of task properties in Plan module.
      *) Fixed Date parsing issue in LIST and task property module
      *) Fixed time capture and blogs updation issue in PLAN module
      *) Fixed Locale issues.
      *) Fixed Time update issues in calender module
      *) Fixed invalid path issue in docVault
      *) Fixed incorrect time and date calculations for milestone feature, tasks(plan module)
      *) Fixed serach issues for pages
      *) Fixed Import to excel worksheet issue.
      *) Javascript error Alerts are fixed in resource management module.
      *) Fixed bulk task removal issue in plan module.
      *) Fixed security issues of iterations.
      *) Incorrect redirection issue in document module is fixed
      *) Read permissions issuse with attachments in task module
      *) Updated default roles in resource Management.