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Chapter 3 • Creating Synchronization Links
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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.