Welcome
Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
Developing Schemas
You can develop or modify schemas with the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
Customizing the Web
The Designer provides many ways to customize the underlying schema and functionality that the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client accesses.

IBM ClearQuest 10.0.9
Overview
Learn general information about the product.
Installing
Learn how to install the product.
Upgrading and migrating
Learn how to upgrade and migrate data for the product.
Administering
Learn how to administer the product.
Reporting
Learn how to generate reports for the product.
Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
- Developing Schemas
  You can develop or modify schemas with the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
  - Understanding the functions of the Rational® ClearQuest® schema developer
    This topic provides an overview of the tasks typically performed by a schema developer.
  - Overview of the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer interface
    The Rational® ClearQuest® Designer includes several different windows, or views, that you will use to perform your schema development tasks.
  - Rational® ClearQuest® schemas
    This topic explains the concept of a Rational® ClearQuest® schema.
  - Customizing a schema
    To modify how change requests are handled, you need to use the Designer to customize the records and fields of a schema.
  - Schemas and packages
    This topic explains the concept of using schemas and packages in Rational® ClearQuest®.
  - Packages and integrations
    This topic explains the concepts of Rational® ClearQuest® packages and integrations.
  - Test Management and Requests
    You can use the ClearQuest® TestManagement and Requests feature to create and track test plans and add approval processes to the record.
  - Working with Forms
    You must create a record form for each record type in your schema. You can also define a submit form for each record type.
  - Creating a security model
    This topic provides an overview of the process to create a security model.
  - Using hooks to customize your workflow
    This topic provides guidelines for using hooks to implement your workflow.
  - Record locking
    When multiple users attempt to simultaneously update a record, the database locking model ensures that the update from each user succeeds as a unit, but each update overwrites the previous update.
  - Customizing the Web
    The Designer provides many ways to customize the underlying schema and functionality that the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client accesses.
    - Testing Schema Modifications in Web
      This topic provides guidelines for testing changes to your forms with the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client Web client.
    - Integrations with Clients
      This topic provides general information about how the different ClearQuest® clients are impacted by integrations.
    - Using Hooks in Web
      Rational® ClearQuest® Web software supports a subset of the full hook functionality, which a schema developer can set up.
  - Rational® ClearQuest® email
    This topic provides a description of the supported Rational® ClearQuest® Web client email features.
  - Importing and exporting data
    This topic describes how to import and export data between Rational® ClearQuest® databases, and how to import data into a Rational ClearQuest database from another defect tracking system.
Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
Integrating
You can integrate Rational® ClearQuest® with other software by adding packages to existing schema.
Extending product function
Learn how to extend the product.
Reference
Review reference information for the product.
Tutorials

Customizing Rational® ClearQuest® Web

The Designer provides many ways to customize the underlying schema and functionality that the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client accesses.

Rational® ClearQuest® Web provides its own settings that you can use to specify further customizations that are visible only in the Rational® ClearQuest® Web application.

This section describes the customizations that you can implement in Rational® ClearQuest® Web client.

Many customizations described here require that you access the Site Configuration page in the Rational® ClearQuest® Web application. Access to this page requires the Administrator privilege in the underlying schema.