Project settings and tasks

You can view the project settings by selecting Project > Project Settings from the main IBM® Rational® Integration Tester menu. You can view and edit the properties for project, server settings, date formats, change management, quality management, permission settings, permissions, results publishers, and APM preferences. You can also create an email publisher or switch users on a project.

The following dialog box is displayed where you can view or edit various properties and settings for the current project.

For details, see these sections:

Project properties
Server Settings
Date formats
Quality Management settings
Change Management settings
APM preferences settings
Permission settings
Permissions
Results publishers

For project tasks, see these topics:

Project properties

The Project tab contains summary information about the current project.

The fields in the Project tab are described in the following table:

Location	The full path where the project can be found.
Name	A meaningful name to help identify the project.
Domain	The default domain name to use when publishing stubs to IBM Rational Test Control Panel (RTCP).
Owner	The project’s creator or owner
External Documentation Prefix	The root directory where external documentation for IBM Rational Integration Tester artifacts is stored.
Rule Cache URI	The location where validation rules are stored for the project (%%PROJECT/ROOT%%Rules, by default).
Inbuilt Certificate Authority	The internal certificate authority for the project.
Comments	User-defined comments that can be used to enter information that might be relevant to the project.

Server Settings

Use the Server Settings tab to manage JDBC connection details for the results database, which can be specified when you are creating the project, or the IBM Rational Test Control Panel (RTCP) URL.

Use the fields under Results Database to create or modify a database connection. Select the provider, and enter the connection details about where and how the database is set up for Rational Integration Tester. For more information on the specification of database URLs when using IP literal addresses, see IP literal address.

To test the provider and connection settings, click Test Connection. If the test is successful, no further configuration is required. If the test is unsuccessful, you must verify that the connection settings are correct and try again.

Under Rational Test Control Panel, specify the URL for the Rational Test Control Panel. The Rational Test Control Panel URL (http://localhost:7819/RTCP, by default) must point to the base URL of the Rational Test Control Panel instance that runs published stubs and manage scheduled execution (for more information, see Virtualization testing using Rational Test Virtualization Server). Optionally, click Open to open an instance of the Rational Test Control Panel.

If you configured a results database and an RTCP URL, you can publish the details of your results database to the Rational Test Control Panel. The results of your test suite can then be viewed on a web browser. To do so, click Publish results database connection. The results can be used in the Results Gallery of Rational Test Control Panel.

Note: Rational Test Control Panel stores the results against individual project names. Hence, the results of two projects with the same name cannot be published to Rational Test Control Panel.

Date formats

By using the Date Formats tab, you can define the output format of certain date and datetime tags in IBM Rational Integration Tester (for example, TEST / START_DATE).

For more information, see Formatting and parsing date-time patterns.

Quality Management settings

The Quality Management tab is used to manage quality management systems that can be used with IBM Rational Integration Tester.

Rational Integration Tester can be integrated with IBM Rational Quality Manager.

For more information about these project settings fields see, Configuring an IBM Rational Quality Manager integration in Rational Integration Tester.

Change Management settings

The Change Management tab is used to manage change management systems that can be used with IBM Rational Integration Tester.

Rational Integration Tester can be integrated with several change management tools including IBM Rational Team Concert™.

For more information about these project settings fields see, Setting up the integration with the change management tools.

APM preferences settings

The APM preferences tab is used to manage connection to APM servers that can be used with IBM Rational Integration Tester.

Rational Integration Tester can import service or transaction data from IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions.

For more information about these project settings fields see, Using the Rational Integration Tester UI to import data from Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions.

Permission settings

The Permissions Settings tab is used to manage whether permissions are enabled for the project. You can select from three options: (none), Rational Test Control Panel, or Active Directory. If you choose Rational Test Control Panel, follow the instructions that are provided on that panel. If you choose Active Directory, then set values including the host information, and the password for the project administrator. You can add or modify the password of the project administrator by entering it in the Admin password and Confirm fields. The password that is entered in each field must match. A blank password is permitted, but it is not recommended. Also see Specifying data masking permissions.

Note: After permissions are enabled on a project, only the project administrator has access to the Permissions Settings tab.

Note: You can use LDAP for Rational Integration Tester project authentication, by configuring Rational Test Control Panel to use LDAP for authentication, then by using Rational Test Control Panel as the authentication provider in the Rational Integration Tester project. (LDAP is not an option in the authentication provider list in Rational Integration Tester project settings). For more information about how to configure LDAP, see Modifying Rational Test Control Panel security model settings after installation.

Permissions

The Permissions tab is used to manage which users have access to the project and the areas of the project to which they have access.

Note: Only the project administrator has access to the Permissions tab.

Note: A valid domain login must be supplied before a project administrator can access the list of available users and groups. You are prompted to log in when you add users. You can log in to the project as a different user by selecting Switch user from the Project menu in Rational Integration Tester.

Users can be added to the project by clicking Add and locating the users in the search dialog that is displayed.

Enter a search string (multiple strings can be used, separated by semicolons) and click Search. To add any of the located users or groups to the project, select them and click Add Selected.

Note: Users or groups that were added to the project are not displayed in the filtered list.

For users or groups that are added to the project, permission to perform certain actions must be explicitly allowed or denied. Use the appropriate check box to do so. Permissions can be set for multiple users at the same time.

Tip: To quickly allow or deny all available actions for the selected users or groups, right-click anywhere within the Actions table and select Allow All or Deny All from the menu.

To remove a user or group from the project, select its entry in the current list and click Remove.

Also see Specifying data masking permissions.

Results publishers

The Results Publishers tab is used to manage results publishers that can email test suite results or publish results to a configured CentraSite server. Details about configuration within a test suite can be found in Test suites: Overview and tasks. For more information, see Testing Software AG CentraSite.

For each publisher in the list, the following details are displayed:

Name: the name that is given to the publisher when it was created (the name cannot be modified once the publisher is created) and the publisher type
Default: which publisher (if any) is designated as the default for all test suites (the default publisher cannot be set here, but it can be removed)
Enabled: whether the selected publisher is enabled for use in test suites

Click Add to create a publisher. To modify the configuration of the selected publisher, click Edit (see Creating an email publisher for more information on publisher configurations). To delete the selected publisher, click Remove.

To modify the publication settings of the default publisher, select it and click Edit Defaults (see Results publisher settings for more information).

To remove the "default" designation of the default publisher, select it and click Remove Defaults.This action does not delete the publisher. To designate a new default publisher, use test suite editor.

Publishing can be enabled or disabled on a project-wide basis by toggling the results publishing icon IBM Rational Integration Tester main toolbar.

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