Administration

Use the Administration view to create and manage users, projects, resources, and financial information. Only users with JazzAdmins permission can access the Administration view.
Table 1. Project Management Administration
Field Description
Users A resource or person who can be assigned to work breakdown structure (WBS) elements. Manage your users in the User Management view.
Skills An attribute that is used to identify what a resource knows, for example, C++.
Competencies A work-related role or field that is used to identify resources, for example, Manager, Programmer, Network Technician.
Proficiencies A ranking of the ability or experience of a resource to operate within a certain competency or to perform a particular skill.
Pool Types Groupings for your resources. Search for resources in a given pool to assign to a task.
Profiles A profile is a placeholder for a resource with attributes such as Name, Description, Experience, Skills, Competencies, and Rate. When you find a resource with the matching attributes, you can replace the profile with the resource.
Calendars An administrator creates calendars here with different working hours based on the requirements of a project and a user. Project calendars and resource calendar are inherited from the calendars created here. Adding exceptions to this calendar affects the project calendar and resource calendar that inherits this calendar.
Risk Categories Risk headings based on which you want to categorize risks.
Time Codes Time codes categorize project tasks such as documentation, coding, reviewing, and so on. The time code must be unique.
Charge Codes Charge codes are project expenses that can be created to categorize billable and non-billable project tasks.
Charge code attributes:
  • Name: Project expense head.
  • Description: Brief description of the project expense head.
  • Code: Unique code for the project expense head.
  • Billable: Indicates whether the charge code is billable.
  • State: Indicates whether the charge code is active or inactive.
  • Category: Project expense head. Select the Category check box to include the charge code for the project in the budget area of the Financial viewlet.
Rates Rates assigned to resources on per day basis.
  • Name: Heading for the rate.
  • Description: Brief description of the rate.
  • Cost Rate: Cost per day borne for a resource.
  • Selling Rate: Selling rate for a resource.
Table 2. Server
Field Description
Status Summary View the status of your database, product, licenses, and servers.
Statistics View the detailed statistics of your server.
Component Status View the status of each of the component services.
Active Services View the active services.
E-mail Settings View and edit the administrative e-mail properties.
Database Connection View and edit the connection properties for the database.
Feed Settings View and edit the connection properties for feeds.
Themes Customize the user interface by adding themes to the server.
License Key Management Manage the license keys to enable capabilities of the Jazz Team Server.
OAuth Consumer Management Create new consumer keys to share capabilities with other users.
Cross-Server Communication Allow other servers to communicate with the one currently being used.
Advanced Properties View and edit advanced component properties.
Table 3. User Management
Field Description
Active Users Current users in the Jazz repository.
Archived Users Inactive users in the Jazz repository.
Client Access License Management Assign licenses to users.
Acquired Floating Licenses Floating licenses available to users.
Table 4. Project Area Management
Field Description
Active Project Areas Current projects in the Jazz repository.
Archived Project Areas Completed or unused projects in the Jazz repository.
Table 5. Process Template Management
Field Description
Manage Templates You can deploy predefined templates, imports customized templates, export, edit, and delete existing process templates.

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