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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.
Creating a security model
This topic provides an overview of the process to create a security model.
Using other HCL Compass security features
This topic provides information about available HCL Compass security features.

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.
  - Understanding the functions of the HCL Compass schema developer
    This topic provides an overview of the tasks typically performed by a schema developer.
  - Overview of the HCL Compass Designer interface
    The HCL Compass Designer includes several different windows, or views, that you will use to perform your schema development tasks.
  - HCL Compass schemas
    This topic explains the concept of a HCL Compass schema.
  - Customizing a schema
    To modify how change requests are handled, you need to use the Designer to customize the records and fields of a schema.
  - Schemas and packages
    This topic explains the concept of using schemas and packages in HCL Compass.
  - Packages and integrations
    This topic explains the concepts of HCL Compass packages and integrations.
  - Test Management and Requests
    You can use the Compass TestManagement and Requests feature to create and track test plans and add approval processes to the record.
  - Working with Forms
    You must create a record form for each record type in your schema. You can also define a submit form for each record type.
  - Creating a security model
    This topic provides an overview of the process to create a security model.
    - Hiding records
      This topic explains how to hide HCL Compass records.
    - Privileged Queries feature
      The Privileged Queries feature works in conjunction with the security context feature. For more information, review the Hiding records topic in the Creating a security model section.
    - Protecting from password attacks
      HCL Compass releases support enhanced security for HCL Compass authenticated users. HCL Compass can now limit the number of login attempts for a user before the user becomes locked out. HCL Compass can also limit the number login attempts from a host connecting through HCL Compass Web.
    - Password protection scenarios
      The system uses the configuration options to govern how it protects from brute force attacks.
    - Designing a security system
      In a security system, user membership is defined by user groups. The user groups are associated with specific customers.
    - Security example
      This topic provides a HCL Compass security example based on hiding records.
    - Using other HCL Compass security features
      This topic provides information about available HCL Compass security features.
      - Adding password protection
        You can add a password field to a form to suppress echoing of characters typed in the field.
  - Using hooks to customize your workflow
    This topic provides guidelines for using hooks to implement your workflow.
  - Record locking
    When multiple users attempt to simultaneously update a record, the database locking model ensures that the update from each user succeeds as a unit, but each update overwrites the previous update.
  - Customizing the Web
    The Designer provides many ways to customize the underlying schema and functionality that the HCL Compass Web client accesses.
  - HCL Compass email
    This topic provides a description of the supported HCL Compass Web client email features.
  - Importing and exporting data
    This topic describes how to import and export data between HCL Compass databases, and how to import data into a HCL Compass database from another defect tracking system.

Using other HCL Compass security features

This topic provides information about available HCL Compass security features.

The methods available for protecting data and ensuring that only authorized users view or change records in the HCL Compass environment include:

Restricting access to fields
Restricting access to actions
Restrict access to dialog tabs
Adding password protection

See Customizing security in HCL Compass Web for information on restricting user access through the Web client.

Restricting access to fields

You can restrict user access to a field in two ways:

Defining field behavior as read-only. Users can view, but not change, the contents of a read-only field.
Using a field Permission hook to determine the level of user access.

Restricting access to actions

You can add an Access Control hook that restricts access based on criteria you specify, or you can select the user groups that can perform the action.

Restrict access to dialog tabs

You can restrict access to multiple fields by placing them on a tab and restricting access to the tab to selected user groups.

Adding password protection

You can add a password field to a form by using a Text Box control to suppress echoing of characters typed in the field. When the user types in the field, each character is replaced by an asterisk (*). See Adding password protection