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

In IBM® Rational® Focal Point™, you can create and link to work items 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 to work items that correspond to business need elements in a project. The work items are added to a project area in the Change and Configuration Management (CCM) 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 work items.
  2. Select the element that links to the elements to create work items for.
  3. Click the Publish data and associate the link icon Publish work items to create and link to the work items. If the login page of the CCM application is displayed, log on by using your CCM application credentials.
  4. On the "Select elements to publish" 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 CCM 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 work items for by clicking the Add and Remove buttons. Click Next.
  5. On the New Defect page, specify the attributes for the work items. A new page is displayed for each work item 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 work item to open it in the CCM application.

Removing links to work items

You can remove links to work items. When links to work items are removed, the links from the CLM artifact to the linked element in IBM Rational Focal Point are still intact.

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. Open the project view that has a view command for removing links.
  2. Select the element that links to the elements to remove links from.
  3. Click the Remove the associated links icon Remove link. If the login page of the CCM application is displayed, log on by using your CCM application credentials.
  4. On the "Select elements to remove links from" page, make these selections:
    1. From the Attribute where the CLM servers were configured list, select the CALM attribute where the link to the CLM artifact is stored.
    2. From the Allowed CLM servers list, select the CCM application where the links are stored.
    3. Select the elements to remove links from by clicking the Add and Remove buttons. Click Next.

Restoring removed links to work items

You can restore links that were removed from work items.

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. Open the project view that has a view command for restoring links.
  2. Select the element that links to the elements to restore links to.
  3. Click the Restore the links that were last removed from the CLM server Restore link icon. If the login page of the CCM application is displayed, log on by using your CCM application credentials.
  4. On the "Select elements to restore links to" page, make these selections:
    1. From the Attribute where the CLM servers were configured list, select the CALM attribute where the link to the CLM artifact is stored.
    2. From the Allowed CLM servers list, select the CCM application to restore the links to.
    3. Select the elements to restore links to by clicking the Add and Remove buttons. Click Next.

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