With TeamForge—Nexus integration enabled, each project can have
one or more binary repositories.
Remember:
Before you can create a repository for binary artifacts, a site administrator
must set up TeamForge-Nexus integration and add one or more
binary servers to your TeamForge
site.
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Click BINARIES from the Project
Home menu.
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Click Create Repository.
The Create Repository page appears.
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Server: Select a Nexus or Artifactory binary repository
server from the drop-down list.
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If
you are creating a Nexus repository,
type
or select the values for the following fields in the Create
Repository page.
Tip: Hover your mouse over the Help icon (question mark icon) for
relevant tooltip.
- Repository Name and Repository
ID: Type a name and ID for the binary repository.
- Repository Type: Select one of the following
types from the drop-down list: Hosted Repository or
Proxy Repository or Virtual
Repository.
- Provider: Select the content provider of the
repository from the drop-down list.
- Repository Policy: Repositories can store
artifacts of a release or snapshot or both. Select a policy from the
drop-down list.
- Override Local Storage Location: Leave this blank
to use the default local storage location. To change the local storage
location, type the path (URL) in the following format.
- Windows: file:/{drive-letter}:/
- Other operating systems:
file://
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Modify the default access settings such as Deployment
Policy, Allow File Browsing,
Include in Search and Publish
URL, if required.
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Modify the Not Found Cache TTL duration (in
minutes), if required.
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Click Save.
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If you are creating an Artifactory repository, type or select the values for
the following fields in the Create Repository page.
Tip: Hover your mouse over the Help icon (question mark icon) for
relevant tooltip.
- Repository Type: Select one of the following
types from the drop-down list: Local Repository or
Remote Repository or Virtual
Repository.
- Package Type: Type the package type. For example,
"maven". Package type cannot be changed once the repository is
created.
- Repository Key: Type the repository key. The
repository key must be unique within an Artifactory instance. Can
contain no spaces or special characters. Cannot begin with a
number.
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Fill in the fields (modify the default values, if required) listed
under the "General", "Include/Exclude
Patterns", and "Maven Settings"
sections. Hover your mouse over the Help icon (question mark icon) for
relevant tooltip.
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Click Save.
The binary repository is created.
After creating a binary repository, you can now configure traceability for the
repository
so
that your Nexus
or
Artifactory
runtime events are published to EventQ. See Configure traceability for binary artifact repositories.