Project area associations are the relationships between a project area in a Rational solution for CLM application and a workspace in Focal Point. Project area associations are the prerequisites to create links from resources in Rational solution for CLM application to the resources in Focal Point using the delegated resource selection and creation dialog boxes provided by Focal Point.
Before you begin
▪ You must have administrator credentials for the Rational solution for CLM application. In this procedure, we have considered the Requirements Management application as the application from where we are creating the project area association with a Focal Point workspace.
▪ You must be an authenticated user of the application registered as Friend with your application. In this procedure, Focal Point is the registered Friend application.
About this task
You can create links between the resources in Rational solution for CLM application and Focal Point in 2 ways:
▪ Create a link from Focal Point using the delegated user interface provided by Rational solution for CLM applications. For this, you need to create and configure the integration link attributes from Focal Point.
▪ Create a link from Rational solution for CLM application using the delegated user interface provided by Focal Point. For this, you need to create and configure the project area associations from Rational solution for CLM.
Note A back link is created only if the Property URI is specified for the Integration Link attribute. Use integration Link attribute to link to an existing artifact, or create artifacts in Rational Team Concert, or any other OSLC application and establish bidirectional links. See the topic on Integration link.You can follow this procedure to configure a project area association from a Rational solution for CLM application.
Procedure
1 Log in to the Rational solution for CLM application such as Rational Team Concert as an Administrator.
2 Click the Settings icon, and select Manage Project Areas.
The Active Project Areas page is displayed. The Associations section lists the available project area associations.
3 To add a project area association, click Add in the Associations section.
The Add Association window is displayed.
4 From Application list, select the container.
The list includes all the applications registered as Friends for your application.
Example: Focal Point.
5 When prompted for authentication, provide the Focal Point user name and password.
6 From Association list, select the required association.
Example: Affects Requirements or Implements Requirements for Rational Team Concert.
7 From Artifact Containers, select the required container.
Artifact Containers lists the Focal Point workspaces for which you have access.
8 Click OK.
The project area association is created.
9 Click Save on the Active Project Areas page.
Results
A new project area association is created between the project area of Rational Team Concert and the selected workspace in Focal Point. The project area association link is listed in the Associations section of the Active Project Areas page.