Creating associations between projects on linked servers

After you connect two servers by using friend links, you must associate two projects on these servers before you can create resource links.

Before you begin

You must be logged in to the Design Management Server with an account that has Jazz™ Project Administrator privileges. An example of the URL for the Jazz Team Server page is https://fully_qualified_host_name:9443/jts/admin.

A friend relationship must exist between the servers of the linked projects.

About this task

When two projects are associated with each other it means that resources in one can invoke and select resources in the other and create a link. You can associate a Design Management Server project with one or more Rational® Requirements Composer, Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational DOORS®, or other Design Management Server projects.

For example, you can associate design management projects with requirements management projects. In the design management project area, you can deploy a predefined link type that team members use to link design resources with requirements artifacts. All links that are created by using the predefined Derived From link type in the design management project are visible as Derives links in the requirements management project. You can create and view links from the design management or from the requirements management application in theRational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM). You can also place your cursor over a link to view a summary of the linked resource or artifact, including its properties.

Procedure

  1. On the Server Administration page, in the Application Administration section, under Design Management, click Project Areas.
  2. On the Application Administration - Design Management page, from the Active Project Areas list, click a project area to configure. The administration page for the project area is displayed.
  3. Scroll to the Associations section; then click Add.
  4. In the Add Association dialog box, complete the following steps:
    1. From the Application list, select a target Jazz application to link to.
    2. From the Association list, select the association that corresponds to the application that you selected in step 4.a. For applications that do not use a specific association type, you can select any value from this list.
    3. From the Artifact Containers section, select the artifact container, or project, that this Design Management Server project links to; then click OK.
  5. In the upper-right corner of the page, click Save.

What to do next

After you create an association to a project on another server, you can create links between resources in this project and project areas on the target server. You can also create custom link types; for example, you can define a new link type called Derived that indicates that a model element is derived from another resource.

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