The Rational ClearQuest integration with Microsoft Visual
SourceSafe adds Visual SourceSafe fields to a ClearQuest record type
of your choice and a SourceSafe tab to the record form.
The Microsoft® Visual
SourceSafe integration requires that you perform the following steps
in the specified order:
- Add the Visual SourceSafe package.
- Validate and apply the schema changes.
- Creating a query that returns records associated
with SourceSafe projects.
- Configure each Windows client computer.
See Integrating Rational® ClearQuest® with
other products if you already have the Visual SourceSafe package
in your schema and want to apply it to a new record type.
Adding the Visual SourceSafe package
- In Rational ClearQuest Designer,
make sure the schema you want to add the package to is checked in.
To check in a schema, click .
- Click and add the latest Visual
SourceSafe package. See Applying
package upgrades.
Creating a query that returns records
associated with SourceSafe projects
Create
a ClearQuest query that returns records associated with Visual SourceSafe
projects and place the query in the Public Queries folder.
Configure each Windows client machine
On each ClearQuest for Windows client computer
that will use the Visual SourceSafe integration:
- Start the Rational ClearQuest for
Visual SourceSafe tool, cqvss.exe, which is located
in the ClearQuest home directory.
- Log in and select the Visual SourceSafe database
that you want to use.
- Click Setup Tool in the Rational ClearQuest for
Visual SourceSafe window.
- In the Visual SourceSafe Integration window, select
the ClearQuest public query described in the previous section that
returns records associated with Visusal SourceSafe projects and click OK.