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Developing
Learn how to develop schemas by using the HCL Compass Designer.
Developing Schemas
You can develop or modify schemas with the HCL Compass Designer.
Using hooks to customize your workflow
This topic provides guidelines for using hooks to implement your workflow.
Writing external applications
You can write an external application in VBScript or Perl to perform tasks against a HCL Compass database.

Writing external applications

You can write an external application in VBScript or Perl to perform tasks against a HCL Compass database.

You can use an external application to create a query, run a saved query, create new records, and perform actions on records. For example, an external application can perform these tasks:

At midnight every day, run a set of queries and send the results to the managers group.
Each Sunday, find all defects that have been open for more than a month and raise their status setting.

An external application must begin by creating a session object and logging in to a HCL Compass database. See Working with sessions.

HCL Compass software includes a version of Perl (CQPerl.exe, CQPerl.dll). When creating external applications that use Perl, use the CQPerlExt package. See Using the HCL Compass API in the Compass API Reference.