Linking, creating, and viewing work items

In IBM® Rational® Focal Point™, you can link to work items or create work items that are added in project areas in a Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) application. You can also search for and view work items in a CLM application project.

Before you begin

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Procedure

  1. In Rational Focal Point, open the element that has the CALM attribute to link from.
  2. In the row for the CALM link attribute, click the Edit icon Edit icon.
  3. To link to a work item in the CLM application, click Select.
    1. The first time you link to a work item, specify your user ID and password for the CLM application.
    2. In the "Work item selection" window, use the filters to narrow the search for the work item.
    3. In the search results, select one or more work items to link to.
    4. Click OK. The work item title and number are listed in the attribute row.
    Click the work item titles to verify that the links are correct.
  4. To create and link to a work item, click Create New.
    1. Specify your user ID and password for the CLM application.
    2. Add the required work item details. Ensure that you specify the mandatory attributes for the work item. Depending on the attribute configuration, the description field might be populated with the description from the element.
    3. Click OK. The work item title and number are listed in the attribute row of the source element.
  5. Click the work item titles to verify that the links are displayed in the CCM application, and that links to the element exist.
  6. Click Save Save icon to save the attribute value for the element.
    Tip: To view the work item details, hover your cursor over the work item that is listed as the attribute value.

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