Hi Bob, What you are asking for is perfectly reasonable, especially in an environment where there are so many established project associations (at the point were they appear in the link creation usage scenario, the list is strictly speaking not the list of friend servers, but rather they are project associations).
This is not an OSLC level thing. An implementation like RTC might leverage the existing OSLC property oslc.usage to address this. But it is not something that is specifically brought out in a spec. I recommend that you make an enhancement request directly to the RTC development team on jazz.net ( https://jazz.net/jazz/web/projects/Rational%20Team%20Concert#action=com.ibm.team.workitem.newWorkItem ). 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: 09/23/2011 03:26 PM Subject: [oslc-ArchMgmt] Subselecting Friends when linking from Records in an OSLC-enabled application Sent by: [email protected] Thank you for the pointer to RDM. I am not familiar with that. We are designing the Rational OSLC Client Request (ROCR) system based on Jazz OSLC architecture. Our set of OSLC Friends might be one of 150+ Project Areas stored in 15 RTC repositories, or ClearQuest or Change. We have 5 basic records in a central database (let's call it CQ PAR) which may be linked to by any of those OSLC Friends. Let's talk about one of them called an APAR. (Conceivably any of the 150+ Friends might want to transfer responsibility for a given issue which was mistakenly assigned to one of the other Friends though in reality there will only be subsets of the products that work together) If someone (Tech Support) is working on the APAR in CQ PAR and wants to submit a Defect record in one of the 150+ areas, CQ or Change, they would like to use the APAR->CompID and release (the CompRel) to determine what the set of Friends might be the appropriate repository. If there were a table that correlated CompRels with Friends, then there could be a look-up that listed just that Friend (or Friends) in the Picker dialog. So I am not trying to automate configuring Friendships (though that could be another discussion). I am talking about presenting fewer already established Friends (maybe just 1) which the user would click on and complete the record creation and OSLC Link. Though I would like to see this for all link types, I am currently most interested in the RelatedChangeRequest Type only From: [email protected] To: [email protected] Date: 09/22/2011 12:08 PM Subject: Oslc-Am Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 Sent by: [email protected] Send Oslc-Am mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-am_open-services.net or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Oslc-Am digest..." Today's Topics: 1. OSLC Picker Dialog functionality (Robert W Myers) 2. Re: OSLC Picker Dialog functionality (James Conallen) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2011 15:54:38 -0400 From: Robert W Myers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC Picker Dialog functionality Message-ID: <of0e0d71c7.5b57f4a5-on85257912.006b60fc-85257912.006d5...@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" 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 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: < http://open-services.net/pipermail/oslc-am_open-services.net/attachments/20110921/b94dc120/attachment-0001.html > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:31:26 -0400 From: James Conallen <[email protected]> To: Robert W Myers <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Re: [oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC Picker Dialog functionality Message-ID: <ofd7c6680c.3b9357e0-on85257913.004904d4-85257913.004a4...@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII 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 ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Oslc-Am mailing list [email protected] http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-am_open-services.net End of Oslc-Am Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2 ************************************** _______________________________________________ Oslc-Am mailing list [email protected] http://open-services.net/mailman/listinfo/oslc-am_open-services.net
