Project templates

Polarion products come with one or more project templates. These are carefully designed to provide artifact types, workflows, system configurations, and content that support different types of projects. For a list of the default project templates distributed with different Polarion products, see Default Project Templates.

In addition to the default project templates included in product distributions, the Polarion Extensions portal has more project templates, which you can download and add to your Polarion installation. You can find these at http://extensions.polarion.com.

Looking into project templates should be a project manager's first step in planning for a new project. There is a good chance that one of the available templates provides everything needed for your project. A good way to check this is to create sandbox projects on your own Polarion server. Create test projects using the templates that seem closest to what you need, and then look at them in terms of the issues discussed in the following sections to see if the template provides what you need. If the template doesn't provide what you need, determine what you might need to customize to get you there.

To learn how to create a project using a project template, see Create a New Project From a Template. To learn about customizing project templates, see Customize Project Templates.