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Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Web
This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.
Customizing security
Rational® ClearQuest® Web provides security that affects only the behavior of the Rational ClearQuest Web application.
Restricted mode
You can control access to Rational® ClearQuest® Web by restricting the activities that users and user groups can perform.

IBM ClearQuest 10.0.9
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- Administering Rational® ClearQuest®
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- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Web
  This section discusses how to administer Rational® ClearQuest® Web.
  - About Rational® ClearQuest® Web server
    Rational® ClearQuest® Web server provides server-side support for WAN interfaces to Rational ClearQuest.
  - Configuring Rational® ClearQuest® Web with the Site Configuration window
    You customize many Rational® ClearQuest® Web server and application settings by using the Site Configuration window.
  - Customizing security
    Rational® ClearQuest® Web provides security that affects only the behavior of the Rational ClearQuest Web application.
    - Restricted mode
      You can control access to Rational® ClearQuest® Web by restricting the activities that users and user groups can perform.
      - Configuring restricted mode
        You must have the Super User privilege to restrict access to the Rational® ClearQuest® Web application.
    - Persistent cookies and session cookies
      Rational® ClearQuest® Web creates session cookies on client computers during the active session. By default, Rational ClearQuest Web also stores persistent cookies on client computers to personalize the logon process.
  - Rational® ClearQuest® and single sign-on
    You can configure Rational® ClearQuest® for single sign-on with Lightweight Third-Party Authentication (LTPA), OpenID Connect, and Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML2).
  - Configuring strong authentication with smart cards
    Smart card authentication is appropriate for deployments where security requirements dictate stronger authentication than using a Rational® ClearQuest® user name and password.
  - Configuring and maintaining full-text search
    Some administrative tasks are required to configure and maintain the Rational® ClearQuest® full-text search feature.
  - Configuring and customizing the type-ahead feature
    The type-ahead feature enables users to use a choice-list drop-down as a search field to find and select items in the choice-list. This feature must be configured before it can be used. It can also be customized.
  - Configuring e-mail transports
    You can configure Rational® ClearQuest® Web to use either the SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) or MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface) mail transport protocol.
  - Configuring integrations for Collaborative Lifecycle Management
    You can configure and use the Rational® ClearQuest® solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) integrations with Rational ClearQuest to connect the work of all team members. The Rational ClearQuest solution for CLM integrations, which are based on Jazz™ technology and the open architecture of Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), include IBM® Rational Team Concert™, IBM Rational Quality Manager, and IBM Rational DOORS® Next Generation. Collaborative Lifecycle Management integrations with Rational ClearQuest Web are also referred to as the Rational ClearQuest Bridge.
  - Managing OSLC integrations in a load-balanced deployment
    By default, Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) configuration settings for Rational® ClearQuest® are stored in files on the server. In a load-balanced environment, you can store these settings as master properties in the schema repository for shared use by all the servers in the deployment.
  - Using Rational® ClearQuest® to prefill OSLC 2.0-linked records
    You can configure Rational® ClearQuest® to prefill field values when opening the creation dialogs for associated OSLC 2.0 projects. When a creation dialog displays, values for designated fields in the new record are initialized using content from configured fields of the initiating Rational ClearQuest record.
- Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
  Administering Rational® ClearQuest® Multisite
Reporting
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Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.
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
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Tutorials

Restricted mode

You can control access to Rational® ClearQuest® Web by restricting the activities that users and user groups can perform.

These activities include:

Submitting records
Modifying records
Finding a specified record
Running a single query or accessing the workspace

For example, you can enable users to provide feedback through a password-protected extranet by performing the following steps:

Create a ClearQuest® user group for customers who will provide beta test feedback.
Configure the ClearQuest® Web software so that members of this group can only submit records and view the results of a single query.
Distribute the ClearQuest® Web URL to the user group.

When members of the group access the URL, they can only submit records and view the results of the query that you specify. The records returned by the query are read-only unless you configure restricted mode to permit record modifications.

When you log in to ClearQuest® Web in restricted mode, Restricted Mode appears in the navigation banner at the top of the display. Users are logged on in restricted mode whenever they cannot obtain a valid Rational® ClearQuest® Web license, for example, if all available licenses are in use.