Adding view commands for bulk operations on artifacts in Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications

View commands allow you to change many artifacts with a single click, instead of repeating the same operation for every element. If you are a workspace administrator, you can set up view commands to handle bulk operations for artifacts linked from IBM® Rational® Focal Point™ in Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) applications. With a view command, you can link and create artifacts, remove links to artifacts, restore links to artifacts or export a project and create corresponding work items. You must set up view commands in a view that contains linked elements, for example a project view or release view.

Before you begin

You must identify a suitable view to add the view commands to.

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Procedure

  1. Click Configure > View commands.
  2. Click Add view command.
  3. Select the view to add commands to.
  4. On the "Add, edit or remove view commands" page, make the following selections:
    1. From the Linked elements list, select the Link list attribute that contains the linked elements to create artifacts for.
    2. From the Attribute where the CLM servers were configured list, select the CALM attribute that is configured for the CLM project areas. The available attributes are in the same module as the container attribute in the view.
    3. From the Command list, select one of the following: Publish data and associate the links for the command to create new requirements and link them to them to the linked elements, Remove the associated links for the command to remove links to CLM artifacts, Restore the links that were last removed from the Jazz server for the command to restore the last removed links to the CLM application server, or Publish project to the jazz server for the command to create a project and corresponding elements as new artifacts in a Change and Configuration Management application.
    4. Click Create.

Results

The view command is displayed on the "Add, edit, or remove view command" page. Go to the view and verify that the command is available in the element toolbar.
Restriction: When links in the linked elements to the CLM artifact are removed, the links from the CLM artifact to the linked element in IBM Rational Focal Point are still intact.

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