You can add predefined widgets to a CLM dashboard so that
you can view HP ALM data alongside widgets for other Rational® artifacts. You can add widgets
to your product, team, or personal CLM dashboard.
Before you begin
You must have permission to change the dashboard.
About this task
You must specify a project for the widget to report on, and
you can also configure the appearance of the widget. You can create
separate widgets for different projects. Because they retrieve data
from HP ALM, you might be asked to log in to the HP ALM server when
you set up a widget or refresh its contents.
Several of the widgets
display HP ALM information filtered through Favorite views, which
are configured in HP ALM. Recent widgets indicate recent changes in
HP ALM.
Table 1. Widgets for HP ALM test planningWidget type |
Rational adapter
widgets |
Test cases |
- My, favorite, recent
- Test cases (for a test plan)
- Test cases validating requirements
- Test case with no designer
- Favorite and recent test sets
- Recent test runs
|
Defects |
My, favorite, recent, unassigned |
Requirements |
Favorite |
Suspicious requirements in HP ALM |
Suspect links and test cases (to suspect Rational requirement artifacts) |
Procedure
- Open a CLM dashboard and click Add Widget.
- From the Select Catalog drop-down
menu, under the Friends heading, select the
catalog for Rational adapter widgets. If your
site uses auto-friending in configuring servers, you see the selection Rational
Adapter for HP ALM. Otherwise, select the name of the
friend server for your adapter.
- The contents of the catalog is displayed. You can narrow
the list of displayed items with the Select Category menu
or with filtering.
- Select a widget and click Add Widget to
display it on your dashboard.
- Change the appearance of your widget with the Settings and Appearance menus
or follow these steps.
- Click user preferences. You are
prompted to log in to your HP ALM server, if needed, and to allow
your CLM server and HP ALM server to collaborate. A window opens for
settings for your widget, as in the following example.

- Select your user preference settings from the drop-down
menus and click OK. The project name that you
selected is appended to the widget name and the widget is populated
with information from HP ALM.
- You can open the twistie next to each listed item to
display a preview as shown in the following example:
