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.

About this task

When you create a link from a product to an artifact, for example a work item, you can see the work that is stored in the Rational Team Concert™ work item. If you want to change the work item, you can open the artifact, which starts Rational Team Concert and then displays the work item.

You can also add external links to products and configurations. For example, product plans can be created in many different tools, such as Rational® DOORS®, Microsoft Project, or HP Project. If your product plan is in Microsoft Project and you use Microsoft Project Professional with Microsoft Project Server, you can create a link from your product to your (external) Microsoft Project product plan URL.

Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager is a portal into artifacts and the tools used to create the artifacts, such as Rational Team Concert work items. Rational Engineering Lifecycle Manager is not a tool to change artifacts created in other tools.

Procedure

  1. To find your product or configuration, see Finding a product, configuration, or baseline.
  2. Right-click the product or configuration and select Add Link to Artifact to link to an artifact, such as a work item or requirement.

    You can add a link to an artifact from a product or configuration. Products are more flexible because you can check them in to create a new version, which provides a snapshot of the artifacts linked to that product for that milestone. To achieve this with a configuration, you must create a baseline, which provides a snapshot of the artifacts and all products that are members of the configuration.

    In the Add Link to Artifact dialog, search for the artifact by entering an ID or text. For example, create a link to a work item by entering the work item number and then selecting the work item in the results field.

  3. Alternatively, right-click over the product and choose Add URL to link to an external web address.

Results

The icons in the product tree represent links to artifacts. 640: Implement a positive water sensor is a link to a requirement. Internal AMR resource wiki is an external link.

When you click a link to open an artifact in its native tool, you must log in to the tool if that is the first artifact of its kind (work item, requirement) that you have opened.

Image shows two links to artifacts.

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