Modifying the category to specify current project

About this task

After you have created a project and associated it with a category, you may wish to specify that this project is the current project that is performing work for this category. The category has an optional field, Current® Project, which is used to specify which project to assign an ALMRequest to as a default value.
You can use either of the following strategies to take advantage of this feature:
  • Create one project which is used to collect all Requests that relate to a particular Category. This one project always exists for the lifetime of the Category, and you set the Current Project for the Category to this one project (and never change it).
  • Change the Category's Current Project to select the project that is working on the current release of your Category. With this scheme, you must remember to update the Category's Current Project whenever your development work starts for the next release.

You can choose to leave the categories Current Project blank, in which case submitters of Requests must explicitly select a Project for their Request.

Procedure

  1. In the HCL Compass client Navigator view, navigate to the Public Queries > ALM > Generic folder and double-click the All Category query to run it.
  2. Select the category that you previously created from the Query Results grid.
  3. Click the Modify toolbar icon.
  4. Click Add next to the Current Project field. Either enter a keyword and click Search or click Browse and navigate to a query to run to return a list of projects. Select the project to be associated with this category and click OK.
  5. Click Apply.