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This extension allows users to create a collection of artifacts in the Module. You can specify the folder where you want your Collection created. The selection of artifacts and creation of Collections is possible in Module only

Softacus was a Sponsor of SWISSED20 - an Annual Symposium of the Swiss Systems Engineering Society - which was held this year as a hybrid event comprising of the real conference and virtual content. 

We were onsite, presenting IBM Watson IOT Continues Engineering products - IBM DOORS Next Generation, Workflow Management, Test Management, and more. 

Option 1:  Project Area or Component Template

How to:

1. In the current project go to Project or Component Properties > Templates
2. Create New
3. Click on data which you want to copy (if you click on Artifact then all artifact will be part of the template
4. Create a new project area or component and use a template for creation (template must be downloaded and uploaded if you are porting to a new server)

Advantages:

• Works also for porting to a new server
• Links between artifacts are kept
• project area properties are automatically saved
• Are links within the project area/component are kept

DOORS Next Generation - DNG Training Version 6.0.6.1, 7.0.1 and 7.0.2

Type:                Instructor-led Classroom
Duration:         16 hours
Location:         Remote or Onsite (World-Wide)
Language:       English, German, Slovak, Czech, Italian, Turkish

IBM DOORS (Classic) was and is a leading requirement management tool for most industries with complex systems. Nowadays, however, customers require many more things from a requirement tool that could not be addressed by DOORS which is using robust and reliable but 25-year-old architecture. Therefore, ten years ago IBM decided to develop DOORS Next Generation which is running on a modern Jazz Platform and together with Rational Team Concert and Rational Quality Manager can satisfy very demanding customer needs as well.
For customers interested in taking advantage of the IBM Jazz Platform, Softacus provides services to migrate from IBM DOORS to IBM DOORS Next Generation.

For completeness, the DNG public API's that are available are: 

• RDNG Reportable API - extracting read only information from RDNG generally for creating custom reports to be run from DNG or RPE. As well, it can be used in a lot of custom applications interacting with RDNG. Big advantage of this API is its simplicity and great performance if you need to work with big amounts of data. Sometimes it's called as RDNG Reportable REST API.

• OSLC RM V2 API - the open standard way to programmatically integrate with DOORS Next Generation, there is an elaborate workshop to get you started here OSLC Workshop article. These programs can be from any language that supports various HTTP methods of requests, e.g. Java, C# etc. Hence these are more flexible to run and can read and update DNG data, as part of a web server, or standalone, but have some limitations set by the current OSLC standard, for example module support. In release 6.0.5 extension have been added for modules. It's very powerful tool to work with RDNG data including capabilities of data modification but can be a little bit more complex in use than other ways.

• TRS 2.0 - the OSLC Tracked Resource Set open standard REST API to hook into the stream of low level changes done to resources in the DNG application (and other Jazz apps as well); read only.

• RM API - it's realized in client extension capability that is accessible from Rational DOORS Next Generation. This is Javascript extension framework that generally can be added as widgets which you can run from the dashboard, and can be used to view and edit DNG data. The widgets are developed in accordance to OpenSocial standard (based on Google Gadget framework). It's more tailored to DNG, so has better module support, but is limited to be run in a browser/javascript environment. It's very easy to make an automation of your work in this way. You can do a lot of interesting tricks with currently open Web page based on DOM/XML standards. You can add support of many popular libraries such as JQuery and so on. But this big simplicity results in some constraint in implementation. For example, you can easily access RDNG artifacts in current module or collection as well as access any selected artifacts but there are some difficulties if you need access artifacts in current view or currently available on the page. But use RM API together with other APIs described above can allow you do stunning things with RDNG.

Helpful Links

Ord.	Link	Comment
1	API Landing page	This is a landing page for the various API wiki pages that exist on the Jazz.net development wiki as well as a central collective page of the known APIs that are available for integrating programmatically with our CE/CLM products. It serves as a convenience for accessing API information about CE/CLM products and is not guaranteed to have up-to-the-minute information.
2	DOORS Next Generation Reportable API	The DOORS Next Generation server provides REST APIs for accessing information about requirement artifacts for reporting. You can access each API by using a standard web browser, IBM Rational Publishing Engine or a third party tool can can consume the DNG reporting services responses. This document covers reporting capabilities for DNG versions 6.0 and higher.
3	Using OSLC capabilities in the Requirements Management application	You can use Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration 2.0 (OSLC) capabilities in the Requirements Management (RM) application for the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). This article includes examples of how to use those capabilities in an HTTP poster tool. These basic examples are described.
4	Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Workshop	The workshop will help guide you to leverage the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) standard interfaces for interoperating with Jazz-based products including RDNG. These labs will highlight key aspects by leveraging web browser access and programmatic access via Java client programs. The final lab will illustrate by an example how to write your own server using Java servlets. This lab is based on the OSLC-CM 2.0 and OSLC-RM 2.0 Specification. After you complete these labs, you will have a good foundation by which to leverage OSLC to implement an interoperability project.
5	OSLC Requirements Management Version 2.1. Part 1: Specification	This specification defines the OSLC Requirements Management domain, also known as OSLC RM. The specification supports key RESTful web service interfaces for software Requirements Management systems.
6	OSLC Requirements Management Version 2.1. Part 2: Vocabulary	This specification defines a vocabulary and resource shapes for the OSLC Requirements Management resources.
7	IBM DOORS Next Generation Server API Documentation (additions from v6.0)	Additions to standard OSLC API specially developed for use with RDNG. It takes into account some RDNG specifics that is out of scope of OSLC specification.
8	Getting Started with RDNG Extending Capabilities	Brief video giving a quick introduction into client extending capabilities.
9	Client extension API for the Requirements Management (RM) application	This document specifies the client extension API that forms part of the 6.0.5 release of the Requirements Management (RM) application. The version of this API is 1.1.
10	Client extension capability (all versions)	List of links to client extension APIs for all supported versions.
11	jQuery API	Useful API when developing RDNG client extensions.
12	Web APIs	When writing code for the Web with JavaScript, there are a great many APIs available. Below is a list of all the interfaces (that is, types of objects) that you may be able to use while developing your Web app or site.

 

Useful Links

https://www.facebook.com/oslcfest/

• OSLC Home: http://open-services.net
• OSLC on Twitter: http://twitter.com/oslcNews
• OSLC-CM Home: http://open-services.net/bin/view/Main/CmHome
• Details on the RTC Implementation: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/ResourceOrientedWorkItemAPIv2
• Carolyn Pampino on the RQM-RTC integration: http://jazz.net/blog/index.php/2009/08/26/sprint-alignment-for-developers-and-testers/
• Scaling Agile with C/ALM eBook: http://www.infoq.com/resource/articles/scaling-agile-with-calm/en/resources/InfoQ-IBM-ScalingAgilewithCALMeBook.zip

 DOORS Next Generation (v4.0.6): Adding an extension to your dashboards via URL 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3DxAneAPYQ 

Adding widgets to the widget catalog of IBM Rational DOORS Next Generation (V4.0.6) 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXl1YcDYjVg