For example, as a project owner, you can add artifact types such as Defects, Requests for Enhancements, and Requirements to a project to enable project members to do their work. You can modify artifact types to suit particular project requirements. The basic tasks for a project owner are to:

• Manage artifact types
• Manage attributes that are associated with the artifact types used in a project
• Activate duplication checking

Managing artifact types at the project level

A domain administrator creates global artifact types that project owners can add to a project. As a project owner, you can create project-specific modifications to these artifact types, add global artifact types to a project, and delete artifact types from a project.

The following summarizes the changes that you can make to an artifact type:

• Name and Description - Project Tracker can maintain separate instances of an artifact even if the local instance has a different name from the global instance (the artifact type defined by the administrator).
• Attribute groups - Attribute groups contain groups of attributes that go into defining an artifact. For example, Summary, Description, Assigned To (User Attributes) and so on. User attributes are used to create a relationship between a user and an artifact – to establish the artifact owner or to copy an interested party. User attributes can determine who is notified when modifications are made to instances of this artifact type. For example, if a project member edits a Defect, the person assigned to the CC attribute receives email notification.
• Dependency rules - These are rules that determine relationships between attributes. See Configuring attribute dependencies for details.
• Artifact Entry screen display – You can specify a set of attributes that you would like displayed in the artifact entry screen. You can choose to suppress the attributes you would like to see hidden. For example, you can suppress the "attachments" and "reason for change" fields, if you feel that those fields are not required at the time of artifact entry.
  • To implement this new configuration ability, attributes in artifact types (at global and project levels) have a new flag, "Display in entry?" Only attributes which have this flag set will be displayed in the artifact entry screen.
  • You can set Duplicate check at the attribute level. In addition to selecting an attribute for display, you can also flag an attribute to be used for Duplicate check. Attributes which have this flag set are those that will be used in the search for duplicates.