Doc152: Journal Setup Overview

Title: Journal Setup Overview

A Traction Journal is the container that houses all your data. This includes user accounts, projects, articles, labels, shared files and attachments.

User accounts/profiles store user identify and preference information. Even when users are defined in external directory systems like Active Directory or LDAP, a Traction profile is created for each user to store the user's preferences.
Projects are spaces into which Articles, Comments, and Files can be published. Each Project has an Access Control List (ACL) that governs what each User is allowed to do inside that Project (the user's Permissions).
Articles are pieces of text, HTML, or metadata that can be published into Projects.
Labels are categories that can be applied to Articles. Each Project can have its own Labels. Labels from any Project can be placed on any Article in any Project. Labels provide a convenient way to gather and organize Articles. Labels in Traction are used for describing content, expressing status and priority, indicating where Articles should appear in the interface, and for modeling taxonomies.
Attachments are files that are connected to Articles, much like email attachments.
Shared Files are files or directories (folders of files and folders) that are connected either to Articles or Projects. In Traction, Attachments and Shared Files can be versioned and accessed via WebDAV (Web Folders on Windows).

By default, journals start nearly empty and can be configured to match your needs.

All the files that comprise a journal are stored on disk in a single folder, or directory, the "journal directory". You can have multiple journals, but only one may be active at a time in any given instance of the Traction program.

Traction Software provides a small number of sample journals to get people started, and also offers journal creation training and consulting to help customers create a journal that fulfills their requirements.

If you have gone through such consulting and are installing a journal provided to you, follow the steps below for "Use Existing Journal".

The Journal Setup page gives you two options: Creating a New Journal or Use an Existing Journal.

If you are familiar with Traction and wish to create a new, empty journal, select the radio button next to Creating a New Journal.

Otherwise, choose Use an Existing Journal to get acquainted with Traction using the Traction Starter Journal.

You can now continue on to Creating a New Journal or Use an Existing Journal.

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Doc1127: Configuring a Journal

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Doc351: Installation and Configuration Guide Doc142: Installing a License Doc52: Current Journal

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Date: March 22, 2008; 4:06:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time

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