Storm (project management application)

Storm is a project management application for Drupal.

It consists of a set of modules as follows: Storm (base module), Attributes (settings), Organizations, Projects, Tasks, Tickets, Timetrackings, People, Notes, Knowledgebase, Invoices, Invoice items, and Expenses.

Each of these provides permissions to control the sharing of data with other users and organizations, and link together - for example, an invoice can be associated with an organization and project.

All components (except Attributes) are nodes, so can be extended as follows:

• CCK can be used to add more fields to the Storm content types
• Views can build customised views
• Taxonomy (core) can be used to tag the contents of the Storm nodes
• Upload (core) can be used to attach files to Storm nodes
• Comments (core) can be used to permit comments on each of the Storm nodes

CONTENTS:

1. Details of modules included in Storm package
2. FAQs

DETAILS OF MODULES INCLUDED IN STORM PACKAGE

Storm (base module)

This module is required for all Storm installations provides a Storm dashboard which gives quick links for the other Storm modules as well as to the Storm administration section.

Storm Knowledgebase

Relying only on the Storm base module, this module provides a content type that can be used to collect together important pieces of knowledge, tips and tricks, and can also categorise them by topic.

Storm Attribute

Attributes are the values that are used within Storm, such as task status, countries, currencies etc. This module only relies on the Storm base module, but is needed by all of the following modules.

Storm Organization

This module allows you to create nodes relating to the organizations that are the stakeholders of your projects. If you wish to create invoices using Storm, your own organization should be created as an organization here.

Storm People

Storm People allows the creation of individual contacts within Organizations, and linking of these to Drupal user accounts.

Storm Teammember

This module allows the building of team working on a specific project / task / ticket.

Storm Project

Storm project allows creation of projects attached to organizations.

Storm Task

Storm tasks are the parts that compose a project and can be hierarchically nested to build a work breakdown structure.

Storm Ticket

Storm tickets can be used to track bugs, feature requests, or any other category as specified via attributes. They can be associated with an organization, project or task.

Storm Timetracking

This module allows the recording of time spent relating to particular organizations, projects, tasks or tickets.

Storm Note

This module allows notes to be attached to organizations, projects or tasks.

Storm Invoice

Within Storm Invoice, you can create invoices between yourself and clients. A printer friendly version comes included, and with the addition of the tcpdf library (see the INSTALL.txt), you can also download pdf versions of your invoices directly from Storm.

Storm Invoice Item

As an addition to Storm Invoice, this module allows itemisation of Storm Invoices.

Storm Expense

Storm Expense allows the recording of expenses attached to a specific task or project, including information such as whether it is billable.

FAQs

How themeable is Storm?
Storm is fully themeable - all output is defined by a theming function which can be overriden in your template.php file.

Operation

STORM adds links to the admin menu:

• My account
• Storm
  • Attributes
  • Invoices
  • Organizations
  • Projects
  • Tasks
  • Tickets
  • Timetrackings
• Create content
• Administer
• Log out

Create entry

When you list projects, tasks, etc, there is a plus sign in the top right corner of the list heading. Select the plus sign to create a new item.

Most of the items are nodes and you can create them in Create content by selecting the relevant node type. You can also create entries from their parent.

When you view an organization, you can create a project or other entry for the organization by selecting a plus sign from the list to the right of the page.

Create organization

You can create an organization as a customer or a provider or both. You can only create a project for a customer.

Create project

Projects have a parent organization and a title. Everything else is optional.

You can categorize them by Category, Status, and Priority. Plan the project by Date begin, Date end, Duration unit, and Duration. Cost the project using Price mode, Price, and Price currency. Express your artistic self by adding an imaginative Description.

The result is a node and the node creation page lets you select the usual input types, including filtered HTML and full HTML. When you have other node related options and modules switched on, you may have additional options in the creation page.