Hi Bob, When it comes to just the OSLC (this email list) the concept of 'Friends' is not something that the OSLC defines. I'm guessing that you thinking about Rational Design Manager, and its configuration UI for setting up a Jazz Friend server. RDM leverages the Jazz infrastructure for that. So we should bring this to their attention (either a jazz.net JFS forum post or an enhancement request).
I'd like to understand a little better what you mean by subselecting possible values. In Jazz, establishing Friends is a very infrequently done operation (typically only when the server is initially configured and when other server comes on line). Or when you mean the Friends picker dialog, you are referring to the RDM dialog that pops up when you are creating a new link from a RDM resource to another resource on another server? In that dialog the first thing you need to do is select from the list of associated projects (most of which are on another server). Is this the list you'd like to filter/sort? If it is, we've talked about that, and there is potential to do so using the OSLC usage property that is associated with pickers. But such a solution is not trivial and will involve capturing a lot of other meta data about link types. The other Jazz products can do this easier because they have, for the most part, fixed link types and the can internally codify extra meta data about these types much easier that we can. In RDM we have a very dynamic link type system, and managing that extra meta data requires more design and thought. Thanks, jim conallen Rational Design Management (DM) Lead Architect, OSLC AM Lead [email protected] Rational Software, IBM Software Group From: Robert W Myers/Lexington/IBM@IBMUS To: [email protected] Date: 09/21/2011 03:55 PM Subject: [oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC Picker Dialog functionality Sent by: [email protected] One of our users today suggested that he would like two things: 1) The names of the OSLC Data Sources in the OSLC Friends Picker Dialog be able to be named meaningfully for both all applications (A user-defined title like 'My Product') 2) The ability to subselect the set of possible values in the OSLC Friends Picker Dialog based on the value in the record from which the linking is being done. (If Product = 'My Product' then show only OSLC Friends 'Your Product' and 'Best Product', not any others) Bob_______________________________________________ Oslc-Am mailing list [email protected] http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-am_open-services.net
