Compiling

• import the source code into an Eclipse project or a similar IDE
• add the CB API jar (cb-api.jar) and jopt-simple-3.1.jar to the build path

Running

Arguments for CodeBeamerGanttExporter:

Option
------     
-g <GanttProject XML output file>                                              
-l <CB login>                                                                  
-p <CB password>
-t <Tracker ID>
--phase <Name of top level task>                                               
-u <CodeBeamer API URL>

Arguments for CodeBeamerGanttImporter:

Option
------     
-g <GanttProject XML output file>                                              
-l <CB login>                                                                  
-p <CB password>                                                               
-u <CodeBeamer API URL>

NOTE: The code will not run without modifications on an existing tracker. At least, the tracker needs a custom field (in the current code this is CustomField0) where the import stores the vertical position of a task in the Gantt chart. The same might be true for other fields for customized trackers.

Limitations:

• only selected values are imported back into CodeBeamer:
  • StartDate
  • Estimated Hours
  • Vertical Gantt chart position
  • child/parent relationship
  • task dependencies
• the code has only been tested for 1 level of parent/child breakdown
• there are still some hardcoded config parameters in the code
  • CodeBeamerGanttExporter:107 : the filter for the milestone
  • ProjectTask.toGanttXML: the weblink parameter to our codebeamer site