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.
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.
