Publishing changes in datasets

After you create, edit, or encrypt datasets in HCL OneTest™ Server, you can publish all changes made to a dataset to a branch in the project. After you publish the dataset, other members in the project can use your dataset in their test run, if required. The Edit branch automatically disappears from the Branch list and changes made to the datasets are merged into the selected branch of the project repository.

Before you begin

You must have created, edited, or deleted dataset assets in HCL OneTest™ Server.

About this task

When you create or edit multiple datasets, the Changes page lists all datasets in the corresponding Edit branches. When you have many datasets listed on the Changes page, you can discard individual changes from the list by clicking Discard from Actions column, then publish or discard all changes made to datasets. If you do not modify any datasets, the Changes page displays a message that indicates there are no changes in any of the datasets.

The Changes page also provides you with information about the number of commits that the Edit branch is ahead and behind. You can click the (n) commits ahead option, and then click Reset to revert your changes. Similarly, you can also click the (n) commits behind option, and then click Merge to merge the changes of other member into the Edit branch.

You can publish the dataset to the remote Git repository either from the Changes page or from the dataset editor. When you modify the dataset and publish it to the Git repository, the other members who have access to that dataset can view the updated dataset.

You can click the Open action menu icon menu_icon to perform the following actions from the Changes page:

Options Actions
Edit Click Edit to make any updates to the dataset before publishing.
Save As Click Save As to save a copy of the dataset.
Discard Click Discard to remove the changes that you made to the dataset asset.

Procedure

  1. Log in to HCL OneTest™ Server.

    The team space that contains your project is displayed.

  2. Click Active projects > My projects > project_name to open the project that contains the test assets.

    The Overview page of the project is displayed.

  3. Go to Author > Changes.
  4. Click Publish changes.
  5. Enter a description for the changes made to the dataset, and then click Publish.
    A notification is displayed for successful pushing of changes to the Git repository.

Results

You have published the modified dataset into the Git repository.