Clone a tracker artifact

Save effort in duplicating a tracker artifact within the project and across projects by cloning artifacts in TeamForge.

1. Click My Workspace and select a project.
2. Select Project Home > Trackers and select the tracker that contains the artifact to be cloned.
3. Open the tracker you want to clone. The View Artifact page appears.
4. Click Clone.
   
   The Clone Artifact dialog box appears.
5. Select the Associate With Source Artifact check box (selected by default) to create an association with the source artifact.
6. Click Select Tracker drop-down list and select the target tracker.
   You can either select a tracker from within the project in context or search and select a tracker from a different project. Use the Search Projects text box to find the project that has the target tracker and select the tracker.

   Selecting a tracker from within the same project	Selecting a cross project tracker where you want to clone the artifact

7. Click Clone. The Submit Artifact page appears. For system defined mandatory fields, artifact data are copied from the source tracker to the target tracker as long as the fields are available on both the source and target trackers. Values for any conflicting fields are set to "None" otherwise.
8. Update the fields, if required, and click Save or Save and View. The artifact is cloned and saved in the target tracker.