Creating source templates

Rational ProjectConsole Designer Help

A source template identifies the data you want to collect. ProjectConsole can extract data directly from Rational products, text files, and from third-party tools such as Microsoft Project and Microsoft Word.

To define a source template, you must provide the following information:
  • The source data type you want to collect
  • The specific information in your data source that you want ProjectConsole to collect (for example, defect priority and owner)
  • The source host name and source data location (for example, the path to a Rose model file)
Source data types
You can use ProjectConsole to collect two types of source data:
  • Data that can be accessed through the Rational Suites Extensibility (RSE) interface. To collect this data of this type, you use the Designer to create a domain source template.
  • Data contained in a text or comma-delimited (*.csv) file. To collect this data of this type, you use the Designer to create a text source template.
Source schemas

After you specify the data source type from which to collect data, ProjectConsole can retrieve information from the source to help identify the source schema. Most Rational sources use a common RSE interface so that ProjectConsole can browse their data structures.

Host name/data source information

To create a source template, or to modify an existing source template, you must specify the source host name, and parameter values such as the fully-qualified source file name (for Rational Rose templates, for example), or a username and password (for Rational ClearQuest templates, for example).

For more information about source templates, see Creating a domain source template and Creating a text source template.