From: Erik Johansson
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Chris Neyman
Subject: FW: Contour feature request

Here is the response from Jama about creating a new artifact by copy another one.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eric Winquist [mailto:ewinquist@jamasoftware.com]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 9:16 AM
> To: Erik Johansson
> Cc: support@jamasoftware.com
> Subject: RE: Contour feature request
> 
> Hi Erik,
> 
> The feature you are talking about is related to a set of 
> import/export/template functionality that is high priority for us.  In 
> fact,  was just talking with the development team about the need - we 
> need it internally as well :).  We should have this in place by year 
> end - but I'm not sure what specific release.
> 
> Regards,
> Eric
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik Johansson [mailto:erikj@keck.hawaii.edu]
> Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 10:20 AM
> To: support@jamasoftware.com
> Subject: Contour feature request
> 
> Hi,
> 
> It would be really cool to be able to create a new artifact by copying 
> an existing one and modifying it. This could save a lot of time over 
> creating a new artifact completely from scratch. We ran into this 
> situation yesterday where we wanted to create a new artifact that is a 
> slight modification of our existing custom "requirement" artifact. Our 
> requirement artifact has 17 fields and uses some custom drop downs, so 
> it takes a while to create from scratch. It would have been nice to 
> just copy the original and modify two or three of the fields.
> 
> Anyway, just wanted to throw that out there for your consideration.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erik
>