Initiating the Project Copy

The following information describes how to initiate a Project Copy process:

• Required Conditions for Accessing the Project Copy Feature
• Initiating the Copy Process

Required Conditions for Accessing the Project Copy Feature

A Project Copy requires the following conditions. If any of these conditions are not met, you are blocked from opening the Project Copy feature to begin setup.

• You must be a Project Administrator of the source project.
• The source project cannot be a legacy “Inventory Only” project.
• A scan on the source project cannot be in progress.
• The source project must have been successfully scanned (by a Scan Server or remote scan agent).
• The Scan Server must be running so the Scan Server and Core Server can communicate when needed.
• A Project Copy cannot be in progress on the source project or on any other project in the Code Insight system, no matter which scanner or scan agent that project uses.

Initiating the Copy Process

Use the following procedure to initiate a Project Copy process to copy the information from a scanned project (source) to a new project (target). As part of the copy process, Project Copy will create the target project with the same project settings as the source project and with the name you provide.

To initiate a Project Copy process, do the following:

1. Navigate to the Summary tab of the source project (see Opening the Project Summary Tab).
2. From the Manage Project menu, select Copy Project. If any of the conditions listed in Required Conditions for Accessing the Project Copy Feature are not met, an error message is displayed describing the issue. You cannot proceed with the copy until the error is resolved.
3. In the New Project Name field on the Project Copy window, enter the name you want to give the project that the copy process will create for the copied information. The name must meet these criteria:
• It must be unique within your Code Insight system.
• The initial character in the name cannot be the space character.
4. Click OK to validate the project name. If the name meets the above criteria, the project creation and copy process begins. For information about what you can and cannot do during the process and for details about the types of information copied to the target project, see the next section, During the Copy Process.

When the copy process is finished, the dashboard for the target project is refreshed with the information and statistics of the scanned data (as copied from the source project). You can then access the target project to perform regular project and inventory operations.