A repository is a central location to store data. You must
create a connection from Visual Studio to a repository in Jazz™ to work with the project artifacts. Your Jazz Team Server administrator must
provide you with the access privilege to the repository.
Before you begin
This topic assumes that your Jazz Team
Server administrator has created a repository and a project area.
To
connect to a repository, you need the following information:
- The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of an existing repository.
Typically, this is in the form of https://<server>:<port>/jazz.
The repository is created by a Jazz Team
Server administrator. The repository must be available on a local
or a network server.
- A user ID and password for the repository. Jazz Team Server administrators create team
member credentials on the Web server and in team areas. Your administrator
can configure the repository for user authentication in an LDAP directory.
After creating a repository connection, you can connect
to that repository.
About this task
To create a connection to a repository:
Procedure
- In Microsoft® Visual
Studio, click .
- In the Team Artifacts tool window,
right-click Repository Connections and click .
- In New Repository Connection window,
type or paste a URL. If the server is running
on your computer, the server host name is localhost,
and you can select the localhost URL from the drop-down list; for
example, https://localhost:9443/jazz. The Name defaults
to the server host name. You can modify the name.
- Type the user name and password that your Jazz Team Server administrator provided for
you.
- Click OK. The repository
connection is displayed in the Repository Connections folder
of the Team Artifacts tool window.
- To connect to the repository, right-click the repository
connection and click Logon. You
will be logged in automatically, if you selected Remember
my password, while creating a repository connection. Otherwise,
a dialog box is displayed prompting you to enter password. Type the
password and click OK.