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
- 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
- For Rational
Team Concert projects:
- On the Application Administration page, click Project
Areas then Active Project Areas.
- Click a project area from the Active Project Areas page
that you want to create associations for in Change and Configuration
Management.
- For Rational Requirements
Composer projects or Rational DOORs
Next Generation projects:
- On the Application Administration page, click Project
Areas then Active Project Areas.
- Click a project area from the Active Project Areas page
that you want to create associations for in Requirements Manager.
- Scroll to the Associations section.
- Click Add.
- 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).
- 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.
- 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
.- 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.
- 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.

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