Creating projects
Important: Instance administrators are the only users that can create projects.
Project Creation Methods
If you are an instance administrator, you can create projects using the following three methods:
- Create empty project
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Note: Any project can be used as a template to create a new project.
- Import a project
The following table outlines the data that is included in the project, depending on the method you use to create the project:
| Empty Project | Project from Template | Imported Project | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artifact Types | Default Types Only | Yes | Yes |
| Custom Properties | None | Yes | Yes |
|
Project Group Definitions (not the group members) |
None | Yes | Yes |
| Project Roles | None | Yes | Yes |
| Project Role Assignments | None | Yes | No |
| Office Document Templates | None | Yes | Yes |
| ALM Targets | None | Yes | Yes |
| ALM Security | None | Yes | No |
| Folders | None | Yes | Yes |
| Artifacts (including description and all other property values), excluding Baseline and Review Artifacts | None | Yes | Yes |
| Baseline and Review Artifacts | None | No | No |
| Artifact Traces (within the project) | None | Yes | Yes |
| Artifact Traces (cross-project) | None | Yes | No |
| Artifact Comments | None | Yes | Yes |
| Artifact File Attachments | None | Yes | Yes |
| Artifact History | None | No | No |
| Artifact List Saved Views | None | Yes | Yes |
| Reuse Relationships (within project) | None | Yes | Yes |
| Reuse Relationships (cross-project) | None | Yes | No |
| Collections | None | No | No |
In summary, anything that references instance data (example: users, project role assignments, cross project data) is not exported, and therefore will not be preserved after importing the project. The artifact history is also not preserved.
Tasks
Creating a project from a template
Importing a Blueprint sample project
