What is a Project Tracker namespace?

A namespace helps you segregate Project Tracker metadata, thereby avoiding conflicts of names. Every artifact type, artifact attribute, and global query is associated with a namespace.

A namespace is an interface to group all globally defined names for Project Tracker metadata such as artifact types, attribute groups, user attributes, and global queries under one domain.

You can create artifact types, attributes or any other Project Tracker metadata with the same title name, and assign each to a different namespace value. For example, you can create an artifact type, "Defect123" twice, and associate each of them to a different namespace, for example "Namespace A" and "Namespace B."

By default, there are two non-editable, system defined namespaces in Project Tracker namely:

• Default: This is a namespace value that can be used for artifact types and attributes.
• IT to PT conversion: The title name of this namespace is named with reference to the Issue Tracker artifact type in Project Tracker. This namespace title is ideal in situations when you want to migrate a project's Issue Tracker database to Project Tracker, and wish to use a namespace title that is easy to identify across artifact types and attributes during this process of migration.

If you are a Host or Domain Administrator, or a Project Owner with permissions to create or edit a Project Tracker metadata at the global level, you can associate each Project Tracker metadata with a namespace value. You cannot create a namespace at the project level. As a Host or Domain Administrator, you can create a new namespace value only when you import a project template into the application.