To organize your work with Project Tracker artifacts, you can make an artifact depend on another artifact.
You can set up several types of artifact dependencies within Project Tracker:
- Blocking - Blocking artifacts prevent the artifact being blocked, from being resolved. The blocking artifact must be addressed before the blocked artifact can be resolved.
- Duplicating - Sometimes duplicate artifacts may be entered and need to be tracked separately. Marking an artifact as a duplicate allows you to track efforts on both artifacts. Duplicates may be in different projects or the same project.
- Non-blocking - Marking artifacts as non-blocking dependencies also allows you to simultaneously track efforts on two or more artifacts.
- Parent-Child - Artifacts can be grouped under a single tracking artifact to allow you to monitor the progress of a group of artifacts.
- Open an artifact in the artifact editor and click the Related Artifacts tab.
- Select a relationship from the dropdown list. For example, to mark the current artifact as blocking another attribute, select blocking from the dropdown list.
- Add the dependent atrtifact in one of these ways:
- In the text box adjacent to the dropdown list, enter the ID of the artifact you're relating.
- Drag-and-drop a Project Tracker artifact from the Collabnet Site Browser tree.
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Click Add.
The related artifact is displayed in the Related Artifacts tab. To view the related artifact, double-click the corresponding entry.
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Click Submit in the artifact editor to submit your changes to the server and save your work.
The relationship between the artifacts is established. To cancel a dependency, select the related artifact and click Delete.