Customize Site Administration

Customization of the Site Administration repository and the qcbin application, such as editing .xsl mail stylesheets or creating custom test types, must be performed in the deployment directory. After customizing any of the files in the deployment directory, you must redeploy OpenText Application Quality Management.

Caution: You must not modify, add, or delete files in the ALM installation directory.

Customize the Site Administration Repository

Perform the following procedure to customize the Site Administration repository.

  1. On the machine on which OpenText Application Quality Management is installed, open a file browser, and navigate to <Installation path>\ALM\data\sa.

  2. Open another file browser, and navigate to <Repository path>\customerData.

  3. In the installation directory, navigate to the file that you want to customize.

  4. In the repository directory, under customerData, create the same folder structure that contains the file in the installation directory.

  5. Copy the file from the installation directory and paste the file in the appropriate folder in the repository directory.

  6. Edit the file in the repository directory.

  7. Run the Server Deployment Wizard.

    OS Details
    Windows Start > OpenText ALM Server > Server Deployment Wizard or <installation path>\bin\run_server_deploy_tool.bat
    Linux <installation path>/bin/run_server_deploy_tool.sh

Customize the qcbin Application

Perform the following procedure to customize the qcbin application.

  1. On the machine on which OpenText Application Quality Management is installed, open a file browser, and navigate to <Installation path>\ALM\application\20qcbin.war.

  2. Open another file browser, and navigate to <Deployment path>\application\20qcbin.war.

  3. In the installation directory, navigate to the file that you want to customize.

  4. In the deployment directory, under 20qcbin.war create the same folder structure that contains the file in the installation directory.

  5. Copy the file from the installation directory and paste the file in the appropriate folder in the deployment directory.

  6. Edit the file in the deployment directory.

  7. Run the Server Deployment Wizard from

    OS Details
    Windows Start > OpenText ALM Server > Server Deployment Wizard or <installation path>\bin\run_server_deploy_tool.bat
    Linux <installation path>/bin/run_server_deploy_tool.sh

  8. Repeat the procedure on each cluster node.