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Creating an Adapter
This procedure describes how to create Integrity Defects, Bugzilla and Atlassian JIRA adapters at the site and organization levels.
A Site or Organization administrator must create and manage the Integrity Defects, Bugzilla or Atlassian JIRA adapters for their site or organization before customers with Windchill Integrations for Embedded Software installed can use the product.
Creating the Adapter Procedure
This procedure describes how to create Integrity Defects, Bugzilla or Atlassian JIRA adapters at the site and organization levels.
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After Windchill Integrations for Embedded Software is installed on the Windchill server, you must create your DTS adapters at the site and organization levels.
1. From Site > Utilities or Organizations > Utilities select Adapters Administration in the System Administration section of the page to open the Adapter Administration window.
2. From the Adapter Definition table, select Create a new adapter to open the Adapter Definition window.
3. From the Select an Adapter Type drop-down list, select Defect Tracking System. The Set Adapter Attributes section of the window opens.
4. Enter the adapter attributes as shown in the following table.
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No field can be left "blank” except for the Display Name field.
Field
Description
Adapter Name
The descriptive and unique name to identify the name of the adapter machine. The adapter name can have alphanumeric, dot, and underscore characters only.
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The adapter name cannot contain special characters or spaces. Do not use a dot as the first or last character in the adapter name.
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When creating multiple adapters, do not use identical “adapter names,” else, you cannot differentiate between the multiple adapters listed for your system.
Display Name
The descriptive and unique name of the defect-tracking system adapter. The adapter display name can have special characters and spaces. This field is optional.
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When creating multiple adapters, do not use identical “display names,” else, you cannot differentiate between multiple adapter display names listed for your system.
Repository Name
The adapter repository name.
Repository Type
The adapter type. Valid adapter types are:
• Integrity Defects
• Bugzilla
• Atlassian JIRA
Defects Server URL
The URL location of the adapter server. The repository must exist in your directory relative to your naming service search base. For example, http(s)://<fully qualified host name><port>/<path>.
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The forward slash (/) is the directory separator used on Windows systems.
User Name
The server authenticates the given username using the corresponding supplied user name.
The user name is mandatory only if the DTS system requires authentication for accessing the files.
If the user name is necessary, enter the user’s existing user name from the adapter system web server.
Password
The server authenticates the given password using the corresponding supplied user name.
The password is mandatory only if the DTS system requires authentication for accessing the files.
If the password is necessary, enter the user’s existing password from the adapter system web server.
5. When finished, select one of the following options:
Action
Description
OK
After clicking OK, the Site > System Administration window displays while the system is saving and loading the new adapter in the Adapter Definition table.
On the successful creation of the new adapter, the confirmation message, “You have successfully created the new adapter: <adapter name>” displays.
Click Adapters Administration to return to the Adapters Administration utility to perform other actions, or to view the Adapter Definition information page for the newly created adapter.
Cancel
Exits the Adapter Definition window without creating the adapter.
6. Restart the Windchill server.