Updating a WBS element in Rational Team Concert

From IBM® Rational Team Concert™, you can update work items that are WBS elements of projects in IBM Rational® Project Conductor. Your updates can be viewed in Rational Project Conductor.

Before you begin

To update a work item, you must be added to the project in Rational Project Conductor.

About this task

To update a work item:

Procedure

  1. Open the work item in the Web client or the Eclipse client.
  2. Enter your changes, and click Save. See Table 1 for the updates you can perform in Rational Team Concert, and the resultant updates in Rational Project Conductor
    Table 1. Actions in Rational Team Concert and their resultant updates
    Action/update in Rational Team Concert Resultant action/update in Rational Project Conductor
    Change work item type Change WBS element type
    Enter or modify Planned for (to another iteration) Move to selected iteration in the WBS tree
    Assign or modify work item owner Assign the selected resource to the work item. If a profile or a resource is already assigned to the work item, the profile or resource is unassigned, and the selected resource is assigned. The assignment is for the expected dates and duration of the work item.
    Change work item owner to unassigned Unassign the selected resource. If the work item is already started, mark the assignment as Inactive.
    Enter or update estimate Update expected effort if there is no owner. Update planned effort if work item has an owner
    Enter or update time spent Create or update timesheet for owner with hours spent. To enter the time spent, and for the timesheet to be updated, the timesheet for that week must be in the unsubmitted or rejected state in Rational Project Conductor.
    Note: After you enter and save the Time Spent, you cannot reduce the Time Spent value. For example, if you enter 4 hours as the Time Spent for a work item and save it, then in subsequent entries you must update the Time Spent value to more than 4 hours.
    Enter due date Update expected finish date if there is no owner. Update planned finish date if work item has an owner.
    Enter or modify Parent link Nest or move under selected parent element in the WBS tree
    Enter or modify Depends on link Create dependency between the selected elements and display in Gantt chart view
    Note: If you specify the Planned for and Parent for a work item, and there is a conflict between the two values, the Planned for value takes precedence. For example, if a work item is planned for Iteration 1, with the parent as a work item belonging to Iteration 2, the planned for value will take precedence, and the work item will remain under Iteration 1.

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