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.
Testing Schema Modifications in Web
This topic provides guidelines for testing changes to your forms with the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client Web client.

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

Testing schema modifications in Rational® ClearQuest® Web

This topic provides guidelines for testing changes to your forms with the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client Web client.

The appearance of the forms that you create in the Designer might change when viewed in different Rational® ClearQuest® clients. However, the same information is available to all clients.

When you design a form, testing must include viewing the form in the Rational® ClearQuest® Web interface. To forms in Rational® ClearQuest® Web, you can do one of the following things:

Deploy the forms to a test database that can access the Rational® ClearQuest® Web application.
Use the Rational® ClearQuest® Web client Designer to create a test configuration for the web. This will pass the appropriate REST API URL to a Web browser and give you access to the test database. Or, you can manually construct your own REST API URL to access the test database: http://<host>/cqweb/#/<connection_name>/<logical_testdb_name>.

It is good practice to create a separate test database for testing schema modifications in Rational® ClearQuest® Web. By default, nonproduction databases do not appear in the database list on the Rational® ClearQuest® Web logon screen. The Web address for accessing test databases must include the parameter test=1. For example: http://myhost/cqweb/login?test=1

When you log on to Rational® ClearQuest® Web to access a test database, a database field replaces the database list. Enter the test database name in this field.