Developing schemas with the Rational ClearQuest Designer

You can develop or modify schemas with the Rational® ClearQuest® Designer.

As a schema developer, you can develop or modify a schema to set up new futures, such as Form Selection. For more details about these new features that can be enabled through schema updates, see the Managing and releases section.

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