Linking between HP ALM projects and CLM project areas

Use the Jazz™ project administration interface to establish project associations between CLM project areas and HP ALM projects. 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. In addition you must have downloaded the provided HP ALM projects or have existing HP ALM projects to associate with CLM projects.

You might also want to review the project associations that are possible between HP ALM projects and CLM projects. For details, see Using the HP adapter.

About this task

When adding associated HP ALM projects to CLM project areas, the Rational® Adapter for HP ALM provides services (such as requirements, change requests, defects, or quality tasks) for the CLM project. For example, these services are the link types you can establish from an artifact in the CLM project to a HP ALM project. Additionally, the CLM project also uses its own services (such as requirements management when working in an RM project) to support activities in the associated project area.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the CLM application by using an account that has Jazz Administrator privileges.
    • For Rational Requirements composer or Rational DOORs Next Generation using the default context root value, https://[fully qualified hostname]:[port]/rm/admin
    • For Rational Team Concert™ using the default context root value, https://[fully qualified hostname]:[port]/ccm/admin
  2. For Rational Team Concert projects:
    1. On the Application Administration page, click Project Areas then Active Project Areas.
    2. Click a project area from the Active Project Areas page that you want to create associations for in Change and Configuration Management.
  3. For Rational Requirements Composer projects or Rational DOORs Next Generation projects:
    1. On the Application Administration page, click Project Areas then Active Project Areas.
    2. Click a project area from the Active Project Areas page that you want to create associations for in Requirements Manager.
  4. Scroll to the Associations section.
  5. Click Add.
  6. In the Add Association window in the Application list, select the Rational Adapter for HP ALM HP ALM application that you identified when establishing cross-server communication using Friends (Outbound).
  7. If you are prompted to do so, log in to the Rational Adapter for HP ALM as an administrator. 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.
  8. In the Association field, select the association for the type of artifacts for which you want to establish links.

    For more information about possible project associations between HP ALM projects and CLM projects, see Using the HP adapter

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    • For associations with Rational Requirements Composer projects or Rational DOORS Next Generation projects select Provides Requirements or Related Requirements.
    • For associations with Change Configuration Management projects, select Provides Defects or Uses Change Sets or Provides Related Change Requests.
  9. 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. In this example, the administrator is adding an association (linked project area) in the JKE Banking Change Management project. That project provides defect management to support testing activities in the JKE Banking_HP project.

    Adding project association

  10. Click OK.

    Defects in JKE Banking (Change Management) are linked to defects tracked in the HP ALM project JKEBanking_HP.

  11. Repeat this procedure for project areas that you want to link to HP ALM projects.

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, see Using the HP adapter.

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