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  85   <li>Documented new URL format</li>
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  87   <li>Investigated the feasibility of accommodating a mapping of old URL link with old ID -> new URL</li>
  88 </ul>
  89                   <h2>Clearquest Web URLs</h2>
  90
  91 <p>With the old Clearquest ASP based Web Platform the following URL would direct you directly to the defected specified in &lt;id&gt;:</p>
  92
  93 <blockquote>
  94  http://&lt;<i>server</i>&gt;/cqweb/url/default.asp?id=&lt;<i>id</i>&gt;
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  96
  97 <p>This link was often set in email messages generated by action hooks in the schema (e.g. when commitmentLevel's value changed).</p>
  98
  99 <p>With the new Clearquest Java based Web Platform this URL has changed. The new format is a lot longer due to the fact that it is also more flexible:</p>
 100
 101 <blockquote>
 102 http://&lt;<i>Server</i>&gt;/cqweb/main?command=GenerateMainFrame&service=CQ&schema=&lt;<i>DBSETName</i>&gt;&contextid=&lt;<i>DBName</i>&gt;&entityDefName=&lt;<i>entityDefName</i>&lt;&entityID=&gt;<i>entityID</i>&gt;
 103 </blockquote>
 104
 105 <p>Where:</p>
 106
 107 <blockquote>
 108 <i>Server</i>: Name of web server (e.g. extranet.broadcom.com)<br>
 109 <i>DBSETName</i>: Connection ID (e.g. 2005.02.00)<br>
 110 <i>DBName</i>: Name of database (e.g. Cont)<br>
 111 <i>entityDefName</i>: Name of entity record (e.g. Defect)<br>
 112 <i>entityID</i>: ID to display<br>
 113 </blockquote>
 114
 115 <p>For example:
 116
 117 <blockquote>
 118 </p>http://p4test/cqweb/main?command=GenerateMainFrame&service=CQ&schema=2005.02.00&contextid=Cont&entityDefName=Defect&entityID=Cont00012352
 119 </blockquote>
 120
 121 <p>The action hooks in the schema need to change to generate this new URL if the new Clearquest Java based Web Platform is to be used. This will fix all future emails that are generated with such a link.</p>
 122
 123 <p>We cannot fix past emails that already exist in people's mail folders. A thought was given to the idea of configuring the web server such that it would allow the old links to work. I tried, believe me, to see if this was relatively doable. It is not.</p>
 124
 125 <p>Here's what I thought of doing:</p>
 126
 127 <ol>
 128   <li>Configure RWP so that http://<server>/cqweb/url resolves to another place.</li>
 129
 130   <li>Configure RWP so that .asp files are considered cqperl scripts. Note RWP is Apache based with Java Tomcat Servelets. I do not think I can configure this RWP to handle true, bona fide ASP pages. Besides I know very little about ASP.</li>
 131
 132   <li>In this place write a default.asp that is actually a cqperl script. This script would take the id= parameter, look up the id under old_id then generate a redirect in the form of the new URL substituting the new ID.</li>
 133 </ol>
 134
 135 <p>Of course, all of this is non standard, thus unsupported by Rational. Additional, although I managed to do #1 and I'm quite sure I could do #3, I got stuck at #2. The problem is that Rational also doesn't support any Perl cgi stuff from RWP. In fact RWP is for Rational's Web Applications only - they don't even support you running static web pages/sites through RWP. So there is no mod_perl.so for me to load into Apache, let alone a mod_perl.so that supports cqperl -which is a non-standard Perl that only Rational supports.</p>
 136
 137 <p>And with this I think we just need to give up the hope of supporting old URL links to old ID numbers, fix it so that new URL links are of proper format and perhaps implement a simply query for "Look up by Old ID" for the customers.</p>
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