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.
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 and product configuration, using them
as a way of gathering and organizing the many artifacts required to
complete a release.
Reusing products and configurations
In the product tree, everything you create under
a product configuration is another configuration or a product. Configurations
and products might represent parts or components or sub-components,
but these are called configurations or products, and they can be reused.
Finding a product, configuration, or baseline
Sometimes a configuration, product, or baseline is in the index but is not displayed in
the Browse Products page. You can search for the configuration, product, or
baseline 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 a product configuration or product is used
Product configurations rarely stand alone. All product configurations contain product configurations or products, and most products contain products and product configurations.
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.