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Extending product functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL™ Accelerate version 2.4.x documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Accelerate.
Release information
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Getting started
This document provides an overview of HCL™ Accelerate.
System requirements
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High-level overview
Use HCL™ Accelerate to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value stream.
Learning
Learn how to complete tasks in HCL™ Accelerate.
Installing and upgrading
Migrating
Administering
A default HCL™ Accelerate administrator ID is included as part of HCL Accelerate. It is used to install and complete initial configuration tasks.
Managing value streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
Developing data insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Releasing software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Extending product functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate
- Introducing plug-ins
  Extend HCL™ Accelerate by configuring plug-in integrations to external tools.
- Creating integrations
  Work with external tools by defining integrations.
- Deleting integrations
  Delete no longer needed integrations.
- Creating plug-ins
  You can create your own plug-ins and install them in HCL™ Accelerate. After installing custom plug-ins, you can integrate them in your releases, reports, and value streams.
- Managing native integrations
  Native integrations add external functionality to releases, deployment plans, and pipelines.
- Uploading data to the API
  Upload metrics data by using an external client to access API endpoints.
- Uploading a build to a pipeline
- Uploading deployment status
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with HCL™ Accelerate features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
Troubleshooting
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Glossary

Extending product functions

Learn how to extend the function of HCL™ Accelerate

HCL™ Accelerate is designed to be easily extended. You can enhance existing functions or add entirely new ones by configuring plug-in integrations. Plug-ins are software add-ons that extend HCL™ Accelerate functionality by integrating with external tools. In general, each plug-in manages one external application. The HCL™ Launch plug-in, for example, enables you to run HCL™ Launch applications.

If you cannot find a plug-in for your environment, you can create plug-ins by using the plug-in software development kit (SDK).

HCL™ Accelerate supports several plug-in types:

Value stream plug-ins are supported by default. To create an integration with these plug-ins, you simply configure an integration in the value stream JSON file.
Quality data plug-ins integrate test and metrics data into reports and value streams. To create an integration with these plug-ins, you use external clients to post data to HCL™ Accelerate API endpoints.
Dedicated plug-ins provide external data to value streams, pipelines, and releases. Plug-ins of this type include: HCL™ Launch, and Jenkins. Use the Integrations page to configure integrations for these plug-ins.
Task-based integrations provide external data to deployment plans. Use ServiceNow tasks to manage ServiceNow change requests.