Registering Focal Point® as an outbound friend in a CLM application

Integrating : Focal Point® and the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management : Setting up the integration for Focal Point® and Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management applications : Configuring Focal Point® as a provider to CLM applications : Registering Focal Point® as an outbound friend in a CLM application

Registering Focal Point^® as an outbound friend in a CLM application

Video: How to register Focal Point^® as an outbound friend in a CLM application

Click to watch in new tab.

Before you can preview Focal Point^® elements from an application of the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management (CLM), you must register Focal Point^® as an outbound friend in the CLM application configuration.

Before you begin

▪ You must have administrator credentials for the CLM application.

▪ In Focal Point^®, click Application > Login Page and in Login or Balancer URL type the Focal Point^® URL. For example:

http://<hostname>:<portnumber>/fp/servlet/Login

About this task

For more information, see URL link icon

Configuring friends in the IBM Knowledge Center.

Procedure

1 Complete one of the following steps:

▪ For the Requirements Management application in the Rational solution for CLM, go to:

https://example.com:9443/jts/admin

and then click Jazz Team Server - Server Administration, or Manage Server for Rational solution for CLM V4.0.

▪ For the Change and Configuration Management application in the Rational solution for CLM, go to:

https://example.com:9443/ccm/admin

2 In the navigation bar, click Friends (Outbound).

3 Register the friend:

▪ Click Add.

▪ In Name, type the name of your Focal Point^® instance.

▪ In the Root Services URI field, enter the Focal Point^® URI that corresponds to:

http://example.com:portnumber/fp/resources/rootservices

▪ In Oauth Secret, type a secret phrase.

▪ Clear Trusted.

The Trusted setting does not apply in Focal Point^®. The authentication settings are handled in the inbound consumer configuration in Focal Point^®.

4 Click Create Friend.

Results

The CLM application is automatically displayed as an inbound consumer in Focal Point^®. You can edit the authentication settings for the CLM application in the inbound consumer configuration of Focal Point^®.

What to do next

Configure a preview view for Focal Point^® elements that link to the artifacts of the CLM application: see Configuring a view for previewing linked elements in Focal Point^®.

You can also configure authentication settings for the CLM application in the inbound customer configuration of Focal Point^®: see Configuring consumer authentication for a CLM application in Focal Point^®.