Supported PPM-Octane field type mappings
The following table lists the PPM-Octane field type mappings. These field type mappings are also applicable to fields that are not visible on UI pages.
PPM Field Type | Sync Direction | ALM Octane Field Type | Notes |
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Portfolio | Bi-directional |
Memo String List |
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Text Field Text Area |
From ALM Octane to PPM | Float |
Sync Actual Value and Perceived Value of an ALM Octane epic or shared epic to a PPM text field or text area field.
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Text Field Text Area |
From ALM Octane to PPM | Progress |
Sync the progress of an ALM Octane epic, shared epic, feature, and user story to PPM field. If the progress value in ALM Octane has decimals, when passed to PPM, the value is round to the nearest integer. If the progress value in ALM Octane is bigger than 0 and smaller than 0.4, the value "1" is stored in PPM field. If the progress value in ALM Octane is bigger than 99.5 and smaller than 100, the value "99" is stored in PPM field. |
Text Field Text Area |
From PPM to ALM Octane |
User |
Sync successfully if PPM passes email address that exists in ALM Octane. If PPM passes email address not existing in ALM Octane, the ALM Octane field is cleared. Only support sync of a single user per time. |
Text Field Text Area |
From ALM Octane to PPM |
User |
Use email address to find the matching user in PPM.
Multiple users are separated by ";". |
User User List |
From PPM to ALM Octane |
String Memo |
Multiple users are separated by ";". |
User User List |
From ALM Octane to PPM |
String |
Sync successfully when ALM Octane passes full names that exist in PPM. If ALM Octane passes full names not existing in PPM, the PPM filed keeps the old value. If ALM Octane passes an empty value to PPM, the PPM field is cleared. Support sync of multiple users per time. |
Integer |
Bi-directional |
Integer | |
Text Field Text Area |
From ALM Octane to PPM |
List | |
Text Field Text Area |
Bi-directional |
String Memo |
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Text Field Text Area |
Bi-directional |
Phase |
When the ALM Octane entity is created, PPM can pass any existing phase value to ALM Octane. If PPM passes an empty value, the ALM octane Phase field is filled with the default value "New". After ALM Octane entity is created, PPM can only pass phase values that follow the phase change logic. Phase values are case-insensitive. |
Text Field Text Area |
Bi-directional |
Release |
For syncs from PPM to ALM Octane, they only succeed when PPM passes release values existing in ALM Octane. Release values are case-insensitive. |
Text Area |
From PPM to ALM Octane |
Comments |
Treat every non-blank text from PPM as new comments that would be added in ALM Octane. If PPM passes the same content, it is not added as new comment in ALM Octane. |
Text Area |
From ALM Octane to PPM |
Comments | If ALM Octane passes comments with html tags to PPM, the comments will be synced to PPM as an attachment. |
User User List |
From PPM to ALM Octane |
User |
Use user email address to find matching user in ALM Octane.
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User User List |
From ALM Octane to PPM |
User |
Use user email address to find matching user in PPM.
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ACL DDL |
From PPM to ALM Octane |
String Memo |
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ACL (SQL-Custom) DDL (SQL) |
Bi-directional |
List |
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