Once OSLC Connect for Windchill is installed and configured, you will be able to create Collaboration Links. These links relate the Windchill artifact with ALM applications artifacts, notably CLM Application artifacts. The relationship type is set by the Collaboration Link type and the available ones depend on the remote artifacts types wanting to link.
All Collaboration Link types allow linking artifacts to remote existing artifacts, but only some of them allow the creation of remote artifacts while linking. Processes are basically the same, so both are described next:
Plus
button in the Collaboration Links
tab.Link Type
you want to create [1], [2], [3].Project
combo will be displayed with the available remote projects to select [2], [3].Authorize Application
page which is the last confirmation to allow Windchill
accessing the CLM Application information on behalf of the user you used to login [6].
Authorize the access and then close the pop-up window when indicated if it is not closed automatically.Link
dialog, two new radio buttons may exist [7], [8]:Search and Link
- allows linking the issue to an existing artifact.Create and Link
- allows to create a new artifact before linking to it.OK
button.If everything went as planned, the dialog will be closed and you will see the new link created on the Collaboration Links
table. If, on the other hand,
you see the CRRWC01015 Unable to save/delete Link in database
message, please contact your administrator in order to check the communication with the CLM Application,
or any other issue before continuing. At this point, the safest is to click on the Cancel
button and wait for a resolution.
There is no way to update a Collaboration Link, if you chose the wrong artifact, you will have to remove the Collaboration Link and then create it again correctly. To remove a Collaboration Link:
Collaboration Links
table, choose the specific link you want to remove.Minus
button above the table [12].If everything went ok, the link is removed from the system and it will no longer appear in the Collaboration Links
table.
If, on the other hand, you see the CRRWC01015 Unable to save/delete Link in database
message, please contact your administrator in order to check the communication with the CLM Application,
or any other issue before continuing. At this point, the safest is to click on the Cancel
button and wait for a resolution.
Collaboration Links cannot be created if the CLM Application has Configuration Management enabled and the Windchill Change Management artifact has not been configured to be compatible with Global Configurations (you will get an error during the step 8 in the above procedure). In order to be compatible, see how to Add a Global Configuration Association to a Windchill Change Management artifact.
Finally, you must know you that you can not use CLM remote projects with Configuration Management NOT enabled when the
Windchill change object has been associated to a GC. In this case, the dialog will display that
The selected remote project is not configuration enabled
and you can just press cancel
to exit the dialog.
If Global Configuration (GC) is enabled on the Windchill product, you can Select a Global Configuration to manage the Part links. You will see a different result in the links table depending on which case holds true for the current Part version and GC:
Global Configuration compatible
artifact. Remote artifacts will not be able to navigate to this Part.Global Configuration compatible
artifact. Remote artifacts will not be able to navigate to this Part.