Adding a Microsoft Visual SourceSafe integration

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:

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

  1. In Rational ClearQuest Designer, make sure the schema you want to add the package to is checked in. To check in a schema, click File > Check In.
  2. Click Package > Package Wizard and add the latest Visual SourceSafe package. See Applying package upgrades.

Validating and applying the schema changes

After installing the Visual SourceSafe package:

  1. Validate the schema changes. See Validating schema changes.
  2. Check in the schema to save the changes. See Checking in a schema.
  3. Apply the schema changes to the user database. See Upgrading a user database.

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:

  1. Start the Rational ClearQuest for Visual SourceSafe tool, cqvss.exe, which is located in the ClearQuest home directory.
  2. Log in and select the Visual SourceSafe database that you want to use.
  3. Click Setup Tool in the Rational ClearQuest for Visual SourceSafe window.
  4. 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.

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