Tags, custom attributes, branch values, and links provide ways for you to find, organize,
and describe global configurations and components.
- If you do not see the tags, custom attributes, branch values, or link types that you want to add
to global configurations or components, ask your configuration lead to define them.
- To add and remove tags or links, or to set attributes for global components or configurations,
you must have the associated permission to modify that artifact type (such as Modify
stream attributes, Add or remove user-defined links, and so
on).
- To add a branch value to global streams, you must have the Modify stream
attributes permission or higher. For details about this permission, see Role-based permissions for Global Configuration Management.
About this task
You can add as many tags, custom attributes, and links as you need to a global configuration or
component.
For detailed information about branch and custom attributes, tags, and links, see Tags, attribute values, and links.
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Add tags to global components and configurations to find and organize them. Tags are strings without spaces or commas and are project-area
specific.
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On the banner, click Global Configurations or
Components, and select Browse
item_type.
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Add or remove tags in the following ways.
- Tag multiple items at a time on the Browse Configurations or
Browse Components page:
- Select the items, and from the Actions menu, choose
Tags. Then, add or remove tags and click OK.
- To add one tag to multiple items at a time, select the items from the list and drag them to a
tag in the Tags section.
- Open a component or configuration, and on the Attributes tab, click
Edit. Type tag names in the Tags field.
- You can also tag multiple global configurations in the configuration tree view. Select
configurations, right-click one of them, and click Tags.
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Save your changes.
After you tag items:
- Find items by searching by name or tag in the Quick Search field
near the upper right (click More Options to show the
Tags field) or above the list of items on the Browse
item_type page. Typing multiple tags returns only items with all those tags.
- Browse by tag on the Browse
item_type page by clicking a tag in the Tags section.
- Show archived items and their tags by clicking Show archived
item_type
near the upper right of the page. Click it again to show active items.
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Use custom attributes to set attribute values for your global configurations and components.
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Open a component or configuration; then, click the Attributes tab and
click Edit.
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In the Custom Attributes section, click Add
Attribute and select the attribute you want to add.
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Save your changes.
Tip: To edit custom attributes for multiple global configurations at a time, select them
in the configuration tree view, right-click one of them, and click Edit
Attributes.
System-defined attributes: You can change the Name and
Description when you edit a component or configuration. Other system-defined
attributes, such as Contributor, Created On, and
Created By, are used throughout the user interface, but you can't change
them.
- Use a branch value to distinguish a global configuration variant, for example, a
UK variant stream that is created from a US variant
baseline.
- Open a configuration; then, click the Attributes tab and click
Edit.
- From the Branch menu, select a branch value.
Note: If you see an
Unassigned value, it means that no branch values are assigned
to the configuration. Ask your administrator to
create the
branch values.
- Save your changes.
Tip: To edit branch values for multiple global configurations at a time, select them in
the configuration tree view, right-click one of them, and click Edit
Attributes.
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Use links to define relationships between a global configuration or component and another
resource, such as a test plan, related global configuration or component in a different project
area, or an article on a website.
For example, you select a global configuration for a new cell phone that you are working on. You
add a link that is called Schematic and enter a URL to the location of the
schematic.
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Open a component or configuration; then, click the Links tab and click
Edit.
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Click Add Link and select the link type to add.
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Enter the URL.
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Save your changes.