Products workflow
Create and organize a product hierarchy that makes sense
for your product. As the team works on the product release, they can
use many parts of the tool to help them find, update, and deliver
supporting artifacts quickly.
Creating a product
Teams use products defined in the products tree as a portal to find information relevant to their product across the lifecycle.
Creating a product grouping
Use product groupings to collect like products into meaningful
groups for you or your team.
Linking to work items, requirements, and more
The index retrieves artifacts, including work
items, requirements, design models, and test cases. Teams can link
to artifacts from their product, using the product as a way of gathering
and organizing the many artifacts required to complete a release.
Reusing products
In the Products definition, everything you create
is a product. The products might represent parts or components or sub-components,
but everything is called a product, and all products can be reused.
Comparing products
Compare products to view the differences between
two versions of the same or different products.
Finding a product
Products, like all other artifacts, are retrieved
from the index. Sometimes a product is in the index but is not displaying
in the Browse Products page. You can search for
the product to view it.
Opening links to work items, requirements, and more
Artifacts, including work items, requirements,
design models, and test cases, are retrieved by the index. You do
not have to open a link to view information about it, but if you want
to modify the artifact, you must open it in the native tool.
Showing who changed a product
Use Audit to view the changes
made to the selected product. The audit results display in a table
on the right of the Products page.
Finding where else a product is used
Products rarely stand alone. Almost all products
have child products. Even a product that appears to be a top-level
product might be a child product in a different product.
Identify property names (prefix+name)
Product properties have names, as do properties of other artifacts, such as work items. Properties are represented in the index using resource description framework (RDF) predicates, which are URIs. If you enter just a simple name when creating a property, the tool generates a local URI from that name. Alternatively, you can enter a full URI for the property name, or a name with a recognized URI prefix.