[oslc-ArchMgmt] Subselecting Friends when linking from Records in an OSLC-enabled application
Robert W Myers
rwmyers at us.ibm.com
Fri Sep 23 15:23:34 EDT 2011
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
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1. OSLC Picker Dialog functionality (Robert W Myers)
2. Re: OSLC Picker Dialog functionality (James Conallen)
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Subject: [oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC Picker Dialog functionality
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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
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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
jconallen at us.ibm.com
Rational Software, IBM Software Group
From: Robert W Myers/Lexington/IBM at IBMUS
To: oslc-am at open-services.net
Date: 09/21/2011 03:55 PM
Subject: [oslc-ArchMgmt] OSLC Picker Dialog functionality
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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)
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