To participate in forums and discuss assets, create new
discussion topics. A topic is a discussion subject that
you and other users can post responses to.
About this task
If a forum is linked to Rational ClearQuest, all of the topics
and posts in the forum are displayed in the ClearQuest record.
Procedure
To create new topics in a forum:
- In the Asset Editor, click the Discussion tab.
- In the Forums section, click the name of the forum that
you want to post a new topic to. Any existing topics
are listed to the right.
- Click the Create a new topic icon
. The New topic window opens.
- In the Title field, type a descriptive
title for the new topic The title can contain spaces and
special characters.
- In the Description field, type a
description for the new topic. If you want to format the
description, use the formatting tools.
- Click OK. The new
topic appears in the Asset Editor.
Results
You can view the new topic in the web client.
What to do next
To edit the description of a topic or delete the topic
from a forum, use the web client.