Establishing links from Design Management resources

After you create associations between projects, you can link from a Design Management Server resource to a specific resource in another project on a friend server.

Before you begin

You must be logged in to Design Management Server, appropriate link types must be deployed, and you must have permissions to create links.

Procedure

  1. Open a Design Management resource:
    • In the Explorer view on the left side of the page, click the down arrow beside the element and select Open.
    • In the Search field in the upper-right corner of the toolbar, enter a name of a resource to link to.
    • From a dashboard viewlet, click the link to a resource.
  2. On the page that opens for that resource, click Links.
  3. From the Add list, select a link type.
  4. Complete the fields in the Add Link window:
    1. From the Project list, select the project that contains the resource to link to.
    2. To link to an existing resource in the project that you selected, click Choose Existing. To create a resource to link to, click Create new.
    3. From the Type list, select the type of resource from the choices that the project owner provided.
    4. Beside the Link To field, click Browse and select the specific resource in the other project to link to. The appearance of this list differs depending on the server type that you select from the Type list in step 4.c.
    5. Optional: In the Description field, describe the characteristics or reason for this link.
  5. Click OK. Additions, modifications and deletion of links are automatically saved.

Results

A link is created between the Design Management resource and the selected or new resource in another project. When you hover over the new link, more information about the other resource is displayed.

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