Creating and viewing work items

In IBM® Rational® Focal Point™, you can create work items that are added to the Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM) repository. You can also search for work items in the CLM system, link to them, and view information.

Before you begin

Procedure

  1. In Rational Focal Point, open the module that contains the attribute values to edit.
  2. In the CALM link attribute row, click the Edit icon Edit icon.
  3. To link to a work item in the CLM system, click Select.
    1. Specify your CLM system user ID and password to log in to the tool.
    2. In the Work item selection window, search for the required work item by specifying the work item number or a keyword.
    3. From the search results, select the required work item.
    4. Click OK. The work item title and number are listed in the attribute row.
  4. To create a work item, click Create New.
    1. Specify your CLM system user ID and password to log in to the tool.
    2. Add the required work item details. Ensure that you specify all the mandatory attributes for the work item. By default, the summary and the description field are populated with the name and the description that you specified for the CALM attribute in Rational Focal Point.
    3. Click OK. The work item title and number are listed in the attribute row.
  5. Click Save Save icon to save the attribute value for the module.
    Tip: To view the work item details, hover the cursor over the work item that is listed as the attribute value.

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