Chapter 3 • Creating Synchronization Links

After you have defined a synchronization link, you can run tasks on it to synchronize data between Quality Center and another endpoint. For more information on running synchronization link tasks, see “Running Link Tasks” on page 89.

Creating Links

The Quality Center Synchronizer provides a wizard that enables you to create a link. For each link, you assign a name and description, and define its two endpoints. One endpoint is always a Quality Center instance. The other endpoint is the project in the application you want to synchronize. You also define which type of entity to synchronize in each endpoint, such as defects or requirements. Each link can synchronize only one entity type in each endpoint. The entity types you choose determine which fields are available for synchronization in each endpoint, based on the database schema for the types in their endpoints.

You can create only one synchronization link between the same entity types in the same two endpoints, and each synchronization link must be unique. The uniqueness of a link is defined by its connection data. This means that you can create as many links as needed to one Quality Center project, as long as the other endpoints are all unique. For example:

Quality Center/MyProject <---> RequisitePro/Project_A

Quality Center/MyProject <---> RequisitePro/Project_B

In this example, the pair of endpoints for each link are unique, so you can create these synchronization links.

If you then try to create another synchronization link using

Quality Center/MyProject <---> RequisitePro/Project_B as endpoints, the link creation fails because the projects in both endpoints are already paired in an existing link.

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