You can create an association between a project area and
another project area or another type of artifact container, such as
a ClearQuest user database. After you establish an association, you
can link an artifact, such as a work item, development plan, test
case, or requirements collection, in one project area to an artifact
in the other project area or other type of artifact container.
Before you begin
The target of an association can be a project area in the
same application, or an artifact container, such as another project
area, in a different application. If the artifact containers belong
to applications that are registered to different
Jazz™ Team Servers,
you must configure cross-server communication.
About this task
Associations represent relationships between the project
area and artifact containers, such as project areas, in other applications.
Establishing associations for the project area enables linking between
artifacts in this project area and artifacts made accessible by the
target project area or other artifact container.
Procedure
- Navigate to the project area in the administrative web
interface. See Logging in for project administrators and team leads (web).
- On the Overview tab of the project
area, scroll to the Associations section.
- Click Add.
- In the Application drop-down
list, select a target application.
- In the Association drop-down
list, select the type of artifacts for which you want to establish
links. To specify that the project area can use artifacts from, and
can create artifacts within, the target artifact container, select
an association that has the Uses prefix. To
specify that artifacts provided by the project area can be created
from the target artifact container and associated with artifacts within
the target artifact container, select an association that has the Provides prefix.
- In the Artifact Containers list,
select the target project area, or other artifact container, with
which you want to link this project area.
- Click OK.
- Click Save to save your changes
to the project area.
