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
- A workspace administrator must configure a module to contain a
CLM attribute that defines the link to artifacts in a Change and Configuration
Management (CCM) application. For example, the module can be named Business
needs. For more information, see Adding and configuring attributes for storing links to artifacts in the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications.
- You must have a user account in the CLM application.
- To publish elements to the Rational solution for CLM applications
version 4.0, you must add the com.ibm.rdm.fronting.server.AllowOSLCPutWithOutIfMatchHeader=true parameter
in the CLM_install_folder/server/conf/rm(context path)fronting.properties file.
Make sure to set this property even after you reinstall Rational solution for CLM.
Restriction: If the combined length
of the characters for the Title and Description attributes exceed
2000 characters, when creating artifacts on the Rational solution for CLM applications,
you must copy the content of the Title and Description to the title
and description fields of artifact manually.
Remember: If you rename the Rational solution for CLM server,
you must change the server name in Rational Focal Point also.
After renaming the Rational solution for CLM server,
clear the Rational Focal Point cache
(click ), rename the
server, and clear the cache again.
Procedure
- In Rational Focal Point,
open the element that has the Integration Link attribute to link from.
- In the row for the Integration Link attribute, click the Edit icon
.
- To link to a work item in the CLM application, click Select.
- The first time you link to a work item, specify your
user ID and password for the CLM application.
- In the "Work item selection" window,
use the filters to narrow the search for the work item.
- In the search results, select one or more work items
to link to.
- 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.
- To create and link to a work item, click Create
New.
- Specify your user ID and password for the CLM application.
- 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.
- Click OK. The
work item title and number are listed in the attribute row of the
source element.
- Click the work item titles to verify that the links are
displayed in the CCM application, and that links to the element exist.
- Click Save
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.