You can bind IBM® Rational® Asset Manager forums
with IBM Rational ClearQuest® records.
Before you begin
You can map discussion forums individually to Rational ClearQuest records. Each asset discussion
forum can be mapped to a different Rational ClearQuest record type. When
you create a new topic in that forum a Rational ClearQuest record of the type bound to
the discussion is opened. Additional posts that are created in the
forum will be captured in the Rational ClearQuest record. The state
of the record will be synchronized once a day by a scheduled job or
by refreshing a specific topic.
Procedure
To map Rational Asset
Manager forums with Rational ClearQuest records:
- Search on an asset using basic, advanced, or filtered searching
methods.
- From the Eclipse client, right-click the asset name in
the Asset Search Results tab.
- Select
- From the web client, navigate to the Forums tab
in the asset details pages.
- Click Report a problem.
- In the dialog, enter the name and description.
- Click OK.
- To verify that the forum is mapped to Rational ClearQuest, click the problem link. A Rational ClearQuest link will open
to the right. Click this link to log in to Rational ClearQuest and view the forum with an
assigned Rational ClearQuest element
Example
After receiving notification of a forum entry, download
the asset and the forum topic information:
- In the client side (Eclipse client), browse for the asset with
the related problem.
- Right-click Download Asset.
- Select the project in the Download Asset panel, click Finish.
- Select Import files through SCM and Import
latest from current branch.
- If you have already created a shared view, click OK.
If you need to create a shared view, click here: Configuring Rational Asset Manager for Rational ClearQuest integration
- After the Asset Explorer appears, open the Package
Explorer view.
- Expand the asset. The blue cylinders surrounding the artifacts
denote that they come from Rational ClearQuest
- Click check out icon (green arrow pointing left) in the task bar
(and click OK in the panel.
- Work with the asset and artifacts and save new asset.
- Click check in icon (green arrow pointing right) in the task bar
and click OK in the panel.
It is important to update the asset details with the changes
that you previously made to the asset. After updating the asset details,
right-click the asset in the Asset Explorer and click Update.
This will update the new asset details and content in the Rational Asset Manager repository.