Creating design project areas

Before your team can begin to collaborate on design models, you must create a design-based project area in a repository.

Before you begin

You should be familiar with project areas, configuration spaces, snapshots, workspaces, and change sets, which are described in Management of shared design resources.

You must be a member of either the JazzProjectAdmins group or the JazzAdmins group; otherwise, you cannot create a project area.

About this task

If you are creating project areas in multiple types of applications, such as Design Management, Change and Configuration Management, Quality Management, and Requirements Management, and you want to associate these project areas with each other, consider creating a lifecycle project. A lifecycle project groups multiple project areas and provides a central location from which you can manage members of the project areas.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the Jazz Team Server Administration Home page: Click the Home icon near the top left of the page, and select Jazz Team Server Home.
  2. In the Application Administration section, under Design Management, click Create Project Area.
  3. In the Project Name field, enter a project area name.
  4. Enter a summary and description of the project area.
  5. To select a process template, under Process, complete one of the following steps:
    • Click Basic to use several predefined user roles and general project permissions.
    • Click Blank to allow all users to have every user role, with very few limitations.
  6. Optional: To add a user as a member of the project area, complete these steps:
    1. Under Members or Administrators, click Add.
    2. In the Select Users dialog box, enter a name to search for a particular user, or click Show All.
    3. In the Matching users pane, select a user.
    4. Click Add.
  7. Under Data Management, click one of the following options:
    • Click Managed externally using import definition if you will import models by using the import application.
    • Click Actively managed by Design Manager if you will use change sets that are managed by Design Management.
    Note: You can store designs in a traditional software configuration management (SCM) system such as Rational Team Concert or Rational ClearCase (Managed externally using import definition), or you can store designs on the Design Management Server (Actively managed by Design Manager). You can also move a project from being managed externally to being actively managed after you import models or at any point. However, once a project is set to actively managed, you cannot change it.
  8. Under Domains, click Associate; then in the dialog box, click the available domains and click Add to associate them with the project area.
  9. In the Configuration Space section, create a new space with a name and description or click an existing space.
  10. To set the default OSLC context, select the Allow Global Index (LGE) for project resources check box.
  11. Click Save.

What to do next

Consider assigning process roles such as Project Lead or Architect to the users who are associated with a project area. If you have selected Domains, you must set the domain versions to use for the project area on the Project Dashboard under Domain Versions.

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