Overview

Collaborator tightly integrates with Rational Team Concert. The integration helps you easily create reviews for Team Concert's work items, synchronize the list of reviewer participants and work item's approvers, and update the state attribute of users in the Approvals list automatically when the review status changes. For detailed information on the features, see How Integration Features Work.

Collaborator 11.1 and later supports Rational Team Concert versions 4.x - 6.0.5.

If you have Rational Team Concert versions 2.x - 3.x, you will need to downgrade your Collaborator (both Server and Client components) to CodeCollaborator/PeerReview Complete version 6.5.x (as only these versions supported Java 5 required by RTC 2.x - 3.x).

For more details, see Version Compatibility Table section below.

The integration functionality is provided by two plug-ins:

• One of them is installed on the Rational Team Concert server machine (Collaborator Plug-In for Rational Team Concert Server).

• Another plug-in can be installed on client computers that have the Eclipse IDE (Collaborator Plug-In for Eclipse).

Both plug-ins can be downloaded from our web site:

http://support.smartbear.com/downloads/collaborator/

For information on installing and configuring the plug-ins and servers, see topics of the Configuring Servers, Clients and Plug-Ins section. We strongly recommend that you read it.

Different versions of Collaborator servers, Rational Team Concert servers and Eclipse IDEs require different versions of Java environment. To integrate Collaborator and Rational Team Concert you will need to install a specific version of Rational Team Concert server side plug-in and a specific version of Eclipse client side plug-in.

A table below lists the possible combinations:

Review Screen, Diff Viewer, Eclipse Plug-in and Visual Studio Extension display atomic changelists (changesets in terms of RTC) in chronological order (from older to newer), regardless the order in which they have been uploaded to review.

Collaborator does not guarantee that Diff Viewer will display correct comparison results for the following cases:

• If you have "gaps" while adding subsequent atomic changelists (changesets in terms of RTC) to the same review. For example, add changelists 1, 2, and 4, but forget to add changelist 3.

• If you add changelists from different workspaces or streams to the same review.

• If you add several diffs (non atomic changelists) to the same review.