RTC 2.0 Planned New Function
I have been exploring the newsgroup and jazz.net, but I still have
questions regarding what will be in RTC 2.0. So, I'm posting to gain further insight. Background: We have a highly customized ClearQuest schema that makes extensive use of hooks. We now have projects using RTC and RQM that need to share defects with other projects that have not yet moved to RTC. The developers and testers we serve have levied a requirement to create and work with defects from RTC and RQM. It appears the CQ Connector meets part of our needs, but creating defects in RTC and having them also created in ClearQuest appears to be a challenge for the following reasons: * Values for certain fields in ClearQuest are retrieved from an external source. We need more than static enumerations. Is it or will it be possible to specify a class that can create an enumeration dynamically? * Interdependent fields. ClearQuest hooks used today create interdependent fields. For example selecting a particular value in one field dictates the values available for another field. We need to duplicate this in RTC/RQM. * Handling ClearQuest reference fields. The current schema contains ClearQuest reference fields. If my understanding of what I have read about the CQ Connector is correct, it's not possible today to create a CQ reference from RTC. Is that correct? If so, will it be possible to create a CQ reference in 2.0? Finally, our goal is to support both the Web interface, for most users, and the Eclipse client for our developers. If we extend the user interface, will we have to implement the extensions for both the web and Eclipse? Looking at the 2.0 UI information on jazz.net, I see a fair amount of information talking about the web. I do not see much talking about Eclipse (granted, I may have just overlooked it). Thank you for any guidance you can provide. -Garrett Rolfs |
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Yes, reference-valued CQ fields and work item attributes can be mapped to each other and bidirectionally synchronized. There is a caveat, however: in RTC 1.0.X, the number and types of reference-valued attributes for work items is fixed; you cannot define custom attributes that are reference-valued, like you can in CQ. So you would need to map your CQ reference fields to the existing attributes, such as Parent/Child, Related, or DuplicateOf. The most common example of a reference-valued mapping is for the Owner attribute. The value of that attribute is a reference to a Contributor item, which represents a user identity within RTC. If your CQ record has an Owner field, it would be a reference to a CQ user record. You can map them to each other, so that a CQ reference to a user record with user id "garett" maps to a work item reference to a Contributor item with user id "garrett". If you change either side to reference a different user, then synchronization will attempt to apply that change to the other side as well. In the synchronization rule mapping for a reference-valued attribute, you must specify the synchronization rule to use for the type of item or record being referenced. You'll find some discussion of this in the online help at https://jazz.net/jazzdocs/topic/com.ibm.team.connector.cq.doc/topics/t_create_sync_rules.html Look at the fourth paragraph of step 7, starting with "If a property value is a reference to another object...". Also, in the sample synchronization rules we supply, there are several examples of reference-valued attributes that are synchronized (e.g. for work item categories and attachments). John RTC ClearQuest Connector Team |
Work Item Customization aspects are captured in the Story:
https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/62528 You will find the information about the planned funtionality in the story's child work items. I have included some references to the specific features below. * Values for certain fields in ClearQuest are retrieved from an external https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/63380 * Interdependent fields. ClearQuest hooks used today create https://jazz.net/jazz/resource/itemName/com.ibm.team.workitem.WorkItem/68050 Finally, our goal is to support both the Web interface, for most users, Yes, if you extend the user interface with custom controls, you will need to provide them both for the Web UI and the Eclipse UI. Please see https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ContributingAttributePresentations for details. -- Regards, Patrick Jazz Work Item Team |
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jrvasta wrote:
Hi Garrett, I wager the Work Items team is very busy, but anyone care to comment? I'm not sure I understand your question about CQ reference fields. I think I misread some information in the help concerning synchronization rules. The example in the help is using a transformer that is is for display purposes only. My initial take on that was records in CQ with reference fields could only be synchronized into RTC. What I would like to do is create a defect in RTC that will also be created in ClearQuest. The defect records in our ClearQuest schema contain reference fields. If an RTC user later modifies the value of the RTC attribute that is mapped to the reference field, I would like the changed value to be reflected in ClearQuest. Hopefully this makes sense. John Thanks, -Garrett |
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Hi Garrett,
Someone from the Work Items team will have to comment on the future of work item customization; I work on the CQ Connector. I'm not sure I understand your question about CQ reference fields. What exactly do you mean by "create a CQ reference from RTC"? Can you give me an example of what you would like to do? John Jazz ClearQuest Connector Team I have been exploring the newsgroup and jazz.net, but I still have |
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