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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:

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 an empty project

Creating a project from a template

Importing a project

Importing a Blueprint sample project

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Managing projects

Creating an empty project

Creating a project from a template

Importing a project

Importing a Blueprint sample project