Projects and folders

Projects and folders are used to organize and structure the data in the database and can be created anywhere in the database hierarchy. A project or folder that contains a project, folder, or module is called the parent project or parent folder.

Projects are special folders that have additional functions associated with them. In Rational® DOORS®, projects are different from folders in the following ways:

Naming conventions

Names are case-sensitive. For example, the names Myproject and MyPROJECT are different. Project names must be unique throughout the Rational DOORS database and folder names must be unique within the parent project or folder. All the projects, folders, and modules in the parent must have different names.

The name can contain the following characters:
  • Alphanumeric characters (letters of the alphabet and numbers)
  • Space characters
  • Periods (.)
  • Underscores (_)
  • Hyphens (-)

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