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I have a question about ClearCase activity IDs.

By default they are just strings, but is there any way to force them to be numerical ids? It does not appear to be a simple setting anywhere, so I thought perhaps there is some background script that has to be triggered if this is possible at all.

I want this to be automated/managed by the system, not left up to developers to plug in whatever id they want.

Thoughts? I'm using ClearCase 8 (UCM) on Windows. As well, most of our developers use the GUI as opposed to command line, if that makes a difference.

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  • For what reason? I'm wondering what happens when developers name it whatever they want – Tamir Gefen Mar 10 '14 at 13:04
  • @TamirGefen: I'm trying to standardize activity ids so I can do things like cross-reference them in my bug tracking software. I'd like to be able to indicate that a bug was fixed in activity 1234 as opposed to something like activity id this_is_the_activity_name. It is just more portable – ChrisC Mar 10 '14 at 15:13

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That wouldn't be covered by ClearCase directly.

If you are using full ClearCase (as opposed to CCRC or ClearTeam), you could deploy a wrapper for cleartool, which would intercept a cleartool mkact command and provide the right name according to your policy.

For ClearTeam, you would wrap rcleartool.

But in both cases, that would be a command-line solution.

One other alternative would be to control the activity name, through a pre-op mkact trigger.

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  • ClearCase with ClearQuest UCM-enabled also forces the users to use numeric activity ID – Tamir Gefen Mar 10 '14 at 13:34
  • @VonC: Yeah, I think a pre-op mkact trigger was something along the lines of what I was thinking. I'll look into that. Thanks! – ChrisC Mar 10 '14 at 15:15
  • @VonC - I meant to ask a follow-up question on this - how do you suggest actually managing the numbers? Can ClearCase somehow do this for you, or so you need your own number management mechanism? – ChrisC Mar 13 '14 at 17:44
  • @ChrisC you will have to name your activity following the naming/numbering convention you see fit. ClearCase doesn't force one, except when linked with ClearQuest. – VonC Mar 13 '14 at 17:58