Question & Answer
Question
How do you record and playback IBM Rational Functional Tester (RFT) Java scripts as non-administrative user?
Cause
Your organisation's policy prescribes that you can only work with RFT as a normal user.
Answer
- Login as admin user to make the necessary changes.
- Set full access rights to the following directories and all their contents and subcontents..
The 'IBM' part of the All Users\IBM\RFT.
Your profile:C:\Users\<user_name>
.
The location of your RFT project.
The location of your RFT workspace
- Delete the existing RFT workspace, so that RFT creates a new workspace in the very same folder.
- Delete the file:
C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN\AppData\Roaming\IBM\RFT\rational_ft.pref
.
- Create a folder and give full access right to the RFT users.
For example:
C:\ibm
- Open
.
C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\configuration\config.ini
- Add the following line at the end of the file. In this example:
osgi.configuration.area =C\:\\ibm
- Save the file and log off from Windows.
- Log in as a normal user
- You will see that all configuration folders are created in the c:\ibm and that an .eclipse folder is absent in the All Users folder or any other location.
- Start RFT from the command-line, with the -clean option.
"C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\eclipse.exe -product com.ibm.rational.rft.product.ide -clean"
NOTES
- To use Configuring Applications for testing as a non-admin user, you need full rights to the following file. In this file RFT stores the application enablement.
C:\Users\All Users\IBM\RFT\configuration\configurations.rftcfg
- RFT and the other Rational Testing Tools are designed for users who are comfortable to work with administrator rights.
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