<html><title>Managing Defect Tracking Sources</title>
<h1>Managing Defect Tracking Sources</h1>
The <b>Defect Tracking Sources</b> tab enables you to specify details about the
defact tracker that you are integrating with Perforce.
<p><b>To add a defect tracking source:</b>
<ol>
<li>Click <b>New</b>. The <b>Add Defect Tracking Source</b> dialog is displayed.</li>
<li>Enter a descriptive alias in the <b>Name</b> field, and choose the type
of defect tracker from the drop-down <b>Type</b> list.</li>
<li>Enter the required server connection information (see <b>Defect Tracking
Source Details</b> below). Your plugin might support additional settings that
are specific to your defect tracker. To edit any such settings, click <b>Edit
Attributes... </b>(<a href="attributes.html">details</a>)</li>
<li>Click <b>Check connection and retrieve fields.</b> If you have correctly
specified connection settings, the dialog displays a success message in the
<b>Server status</b> field. If a connection error is displayed, correct your
entries and click <b>Check connection and retrieve fields</b>. P4DTG retrieves
and displays reference field information.</li>
<li>Choose the defect tracker project from the <b>Project</b> drop-down list.
The associated reference fields are displayed</li>
<li>Click <b>OK</b> to save your entries and dismiss the dialog.</li>
</ol>
Your newly-defined defect tracking source is now displayed in the<b> Defect tracking
sources</b> list.
<p> <b>Defect Tracking Source Details</b>
<p>
<ul>
<li><b>Name:</b> an alias for the source and its associated information. </li>
<li><b>Server:</b> the information required by the defect tracker for client
connections. The format is determined by the defect tracker.</li>
<li><b>User Name:</b> the user name to be used to connect to the defect tracking
server when replicated data is read or written.</li>
<li><b>Password:</b> password for the specified user, if required.</li>
<li><b>Project</b>: the defect tracker project that you want to replicate.</li>
<li><b>Reference fields:</b> the essential fields that are required to keep
Perforce and the defect tracker synchronized. The reference fields are:</li>
<ul>
<li><b>Modified Date field:</b> the date that the issue was last changed.</li>
<li><b>Modified By field:</b> the user that last changed the issue.</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p><b>To edit a defect tracking source: </b>click the source in the <b>Defect
tracking sources</b> list, then click <b>Edit.</b>
<p> <b>To delete a defect tracking source:</b> click the source in the<b> </b><b>Defect
tracking sources</b> list, then click <b>Delete.</b> The source is marked for
deletion, and is displayed in bold in the <b>Defect tracking sources</b> list.
To delete the source permanently, click <b>Apply </b>or<b> Save</b>. To undelete,
click the marked source, then click <b>Undelete</b>.
<p>To configure filtering of selected defects to replicate them to differing defect
trackers or SCM systems, define <a href="segments.html">segments</a>.
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