# Introduction

This manual explains how to use the FusionForge software.

The manual is divided in 4 parts:

## Getting Started

This section explains how to register as a new user, how to register a new project, how to login and how to logout.

## User specific functions

This section describes the functions of FusionForge that are relative to the user's section.

This document describes the user's homepage, how to modify user settings, how to handle user ratings, skill profiles and Diary and Notes.

## Project specific functions

This chapter explains the project specific functions of FusionForge.

Project Summary

  This section describes the Project Summary page for your project.

Project Administration

  This section describes the Administration of the project. The Project Administrator function is accessible only to the Project Administrators.

Forums

  This section describes the use and administration of the Discussion Forums.

Tracker

  This section describes how to use the Tracker to track bugs, patches, support requests.

Mailing Lists

  This section describes the creation or maintenance of mailing lists for your project.

Task Manager

  This section describes how to use the Task Manager to track activities.

Document Manager

  This section describes the Document Manager.

Surveys

  This section describes how to set up Surveys for your project.

News

  This section describes how to add and release News for your project.

CVS

  This section describes how to manage CVS repositories for your project.

File releases

  This section describes how to publish new releases of your project.

Blocks

  This section describes how to use HTML blocks to customize the appearance of project pages.

## Site-wide functions

Trove Map

  This section describes the Project Classification System.

Snippet Library

  This document describes how to use the code fragment Library.

Project Help

  This document describes how to use the Project help function of FusionForge.