Use the Jazz™ project
administration interface to add services for linking to project areas
in Jazz technology platform
products. This association of project areas enables team members to
create links from artifacts, such as test cases, requirements, and
work items, in one project area to artifacts in another project area.
Before you begin
You must establish cross-server communication and approve OAuth access requests before
performing this procedure. Ensure that your Web browser preferences are not set to block pop-ups.
You must be assigned to a role that has permission to modify project area properties, or you must
have JazzAdmins repository group permissions.
About this task
When adding associated project areas to the current project,
the selected application
provides services, such as requirements,
change requests, defects, or quality tasks, for the current project.
The current project also
uses its own services, such as requirements
management (when working in an RM project), to support activities
in the associated project area. The
Service and
Association fields,
described below, provide options for selecting a link type for artifacts
in associated project areas that provide the listed services.
Procedure
- Log in to the Jazz server.
- On the Server Administration home page, click Project
Areas for one of the applications in the Application Administration
section.
- Select a project area from the Active Project
Areas list and scroll to the Associations section.
- Click Add.
- In the Add Association window in the Application drop-down
list, select a target Jazz application
that you identified when establishing cross-server communication using
Friends (Outbound).
- If you are prompted to do so, log in to the target server. Entries for the target server project areas are displayed in the Artifact
Containers field. The artifact container corresponds to a project area on the selected
server.
- In the Association field, select
the association for the type of artifacts for which you want to establish
links; for example in CCM projects:
- For associations with RM projects, select Implementation
Requests or Requirements Change Requests.
- For associations with QM projects, select Quality Management
Tasks or Defects.
- Select an artifact container entry.
As you
select options in the fields in this window, the selected link relationship
is described in the Preview section at the
bottom of the window, as shown in the following image. In this example,
the administrator is adding an association (linked project area) in
the JKE Banking Change Management project. That project will provide
defect management to support testing activities in the JKE Banking
Quality Management project.
- Click OK.
- Repeat this procedure for project areas that you want to
link on each of the application servers.
What to do next
Users can now create links from artifacts in the local project
area to artifacts in the project area on the target server.
