Limiting release links by enforcing project area associations

To limit which project areas team members see when importing the release links using the Import Release Links wizard, and when adding release links to global artifacts, you can configure the Global Configuration Management application to enforce project area associations.

Before you begin

Review the Limiting Global Configuration Management contributions by enforcing project area associations to know more about enforcing project area associations.

The Global Configuration Management application must have a friend relationship with each application that contains project areas that teams need to access. By default, all applications that are registered to the same Jazz® Team Server are automatically friends, and Global Configuration Management shows the configuration-enabled project areas of its friends.

Procedure

  1. Go to the Global Configuration Management application's Administration page at https://hostname:port/gc/admin, and click Project Areas > Active Project Areas on the banner.
  2. For each project area in the list, determine the project area associations that you must create. Ask configuration leads which project areas need to be associated with the current project area.
  3. Add the project area associations based on your findings from step 2.
    1. Click a project area name.
    2. In the Associations section, click Add.
    3. In the Add Association dialog box, select the application that contains the project areas to access.
    4. On the Association menu, click Uses - Configurations.
      A corresponding Provides - Configurations association is added in the other project area.
    5. Select a project area and click OK.
    6. Repeat steps 3.b to 3.e to add more project areas.
    7. Click Save.
  4. Open the Global Configuration Management application's Advanced Properties page. On the banner, click Application, and then click Advanced Properties.
  5. Set the Project area associations are required for release links property to true, and then click Save.

Results

The Select project areas section under Import Release Links wizard and the Add Releases dialog box under Links > Add Link > Release on the configuration editor page in Global Configuration Management show only the project areas that have a Provides - Configurations association to the current Global Configuration Management project area.