Create a filter that is a list of artifact types or links
that are included or ignored when you apply the filter to the impact
analysis diagram.
About this task
The filters that you create or modify here are available
as choices in several places:
- Impact Analysis Profiles screen in the Filters section
- Impact Analysis Diagrams screen Edit Panel,
in the Active Filters tab, Add Filter list
box
- Create Impact Analysis screen in the Filters section
Procedure
- In the main menu, click .
- In the editor, click in the title field and type a unique
name for the new filter.
- Set the artifacts for the impact analysis to ignore by
clicking the Add Artifact Type icon.
- In the Add Filter (Artifact) window,
select a value from the list box and click Add. The new filter is displayed in the Artifact
Type list.
- Repeat to add more artifacts to be ignored or added.
If you create a filter to show only products or product configurations,
but the resulting diagram does not show products or product configurations
as expected, add part as an artifact type. See Creating an analysis filter for a product or product
configuration does not work as expected.
- Set the artifacts to ignore in the impact analysis by clicking
the Add Link Type icon.
- In the Add Filter (Link) window,
select a value from the list box and click Add. The new filter is displayed in the Link Type list.
- Repeat to add more links to be ignored or added.
- To exclude the artifact types and list types that are specified
in the corresponding sections, select the Ignore selected
artifacts and links check box. To include only the artifact
types and link types that are listed, clear the Ignore
selected artifacts and links check box.
The
new impact analysis filter is included in the list of available filters.
- Optional: Export the filter to another Rational® Engineering Lifecycle
Manager installation.
- In the main menu, click .
- Check the box beside the filter names you want to export.
- Click the Export Selected Filters icon
to start the download.
Example
This image shows an example of filter settings for a new
impact analysis filter.
