Collection template in RRC
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could RRC create collection template that have artifact template.
Collection1 Template
--Artifact Design Doc template
--Artifact Requirement Doc template
so when we have new requirement, we can create Collection Template that include artifact design and requirement doc. not create one by one artifact
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My understanding is RRC allow to create artifact template. So it seems that each -Artifact Design Doc template and Artifact Requirement Doc template can be created. Does RRC allow to put both template to a collection template?
Or there is other to achieve the request?
Thanks
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Thanks Kirk for the further confirmation.
From your comments, do you mean that "if you are looking for duplication or generation of new artifacts for each new collection. " is impossible or there is any way to achieve that?
I think I have to back to your original comments "the templates themselves (as opposed to the artifacts they were created from) are not visible in the folder structure, so they cannot be added to collections. ", does that mean if there are two(or more) artifact templates, there is no way to have a collection template which could include those artifact templates(with this way, we would expect to generate new artifacts every time when using the collection template if it can be done)?
There is no automated way to generate duplicates or create new artifacts based on templates every time you create a new collection. You could do this manually by first duplicating all of the artifacts that you want to duplicate, and the putting those into a new collection. But I think you are looking for something more automated.
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As to the 2nd question, when you create an artifact template, it is always based on an existing artifact. When you create a template based on Artifact A, Artifact A does not become the template... it is just the basis for the new template. Artifact A continues to exist as a normal artifact, and you can still see it in your folder structure. The template that is created is a new resource, but it only appears in the Project Properties (in the Templates tab); it does not appear in the folder structure, so you cannot add it to a collection.
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Thanks Kirk for the further explanation/confirmation. I am confirming if we can close this post.
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Thanks Kirk for the info.
I only see we are able to create artifact template in the admin's template tab from an existing artifact. If I have two artifacts and add the two into the collection, where can I create the collection template? From the same place of artifact template creation(based on existing artifact)?
I don't fully understand what you mean "the templates themselves (as opposed to the artifacts they were created from) are not visible in the folder structure, so they cannot be added to collections.", Do you mean I actually can not use that collection template to create a collection which will automatically have two artifacts included? If that's the case, what is the use case of the collection template? Please can you provide a bit more explanation on this?
The intention to have collection template is to create a collection in which the expected two artifacts are generated without creating one by one. Thanks