Bulk linking and creating requirements for linked elements by publishing data in a CLM application

In IBM® Rational® Focal Point™, you can create and link to requirements that correspond to elements in a bulk operation. You can handle many elements in one operation instead of publishing elements one by one.

Before you begin

About this task

You might link requirements to business need elements in a project. The requirements are added to a project area in the Requirements Management (RM) application in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM).

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Procedure

  1. Open the project view that has a view command for creating requirements.
  2. Select the element that links to the elements to create requirements for.
  3. Click the Publish data and associate the link icon Publish requirements to create and link to the requirements. If the login page of the RM application is displayed, log on by using your RM application credentials.
  4. On the "Element selection" page, make these selections:
    1. From the Attribute where the CLM servers were configured list, select the CALM attribute in which to store the link to the CLM artifact.
    2. From the Allowed CLM servers list, select the RM application to store the links in.
    3. From the Allowed project areas list, select the project areas to store the links in.
    4. Select the elements to create and link requirements for by clicking the Add and Remove buttons. Click Next.
  5. On the New Requirement page, specify the attributes for the requirements. A new page is displayed for each requirement unless you select the check box for using the currently configured attributes for all new artifacts. Click OK.

Results

The result is shown on the Bulk Publishing Result page. You can click the link of a requirement to open it in the RM application.

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