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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.
Adding password protection
You can add a password field to a form to suppress echoing of characters typed in the field.

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.

Adding password protection

You can add a password field to a form to suppress echoing of characters typed in the field.

Procedure

To add a password field to a form:

Add a Text Field control to the form.
Double-click the Text Field control to display the property sheet.
Click the Extended section and select Password/no echo style.