What is a global artifact type?

Global artifact types are artifact types defined for the site as a whole, which any project on the site can use.

When a project owner creates a new project in Project Tracker, any artifact types that are marked as default at the global level are displayed in the main list of artifact types for that project. However, the project owner must manually add any artifact types that have not been marked as default at the global level.

Project owners can only add artifact types that have at least one global (non-user) attribute to a project. If you want an artifact type to be available to project owners, you must assign at least one global attribute to it. See What is a global attribute? for details.

Artifact types defined at the global level can be altered at the project level.

Guidelines for defining artifact types:

• Artifact types should reflect a wide variety of instances. For example, an artifact type entitled "Unix database errors" will capture information about one process on one operating system, but may be too narrow for your project. An artifact type of "Defect" may be adequate for many projects, but could be too broad for others.
• Users should be able to quickly identify what type of artifact they need to enter. For example, suppose a project has the following artifact types: Defect, Patch, Enhancement, and Feedback. If a project member discovers a bug in the project code, he or she can easily identify the Defect artifact type as the choice for data entry about the bug.
• You can select an "identifier" for an artifact type. The identifier as the link to view the artifact contents, and this value used in email notifications that are sent when the associated artifact is edited. Only text attributes can be used as identifiers.

Project tracker provides you a sample global artifact type that you can use directly .

• Issue Tracker Artifact: Used to migrate data from the Issue Tracker tool to Project Tracker. This artifact type cannot be modified.