Importing a partition

When you receive a partition file, you import it into your Rational® DOORS® database. When you import the file, the modules that are contained in the file are created in your database.

Before you begin

Log in to Rational DOORS as a project manager, database manager, or custom user who has the power to partition data.

About this task

Access controls for the data in the partition file are set at the originating database. You cannot increase the access rights to any of the data when you import the partition file, but you can restrict access by setting access rights on the project where the partition will be imported. When the data is imported, it inherits access rights from the project. If the modules are partitioned with full access, but a user or group has read-only access to the parent project, they have read-only access to the data in the partition.

Make sure that the access rights that users and groups have to the parent project are sufficient before you import a partition. Once the partition is imported, you cannot give existing users increased access to existing attributes. Users who do not have specific access rights to the parent project before the partition is imported have the access rights of the Everyone else group.

Procedure

  1. In the database explorer, select the folder or project that you want to import the data into. You must have create access to the folder or project.

    If you are importing the partition file into a folder, the folder must be the child of a project. The project does not need to be an immediate parent, but there must be a project at some point above the folder in the hierarchy.

  2. Click File > Import Partition, and browse to the partition file that you want to import.
Related concepts:
Data partitions
Related tasks:
Adding data to imported partitions
Creating a synch file from an imported partition
Returning an imported partition
Showing exported and imported partitions

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