How can fields from parent work items be populated into children work items?
We have work items with parent-children relationship and need to have a query on children work items with grouping with a field in parent work items. Understand that currently, such feature is yet to be available (in RTC3 or RTC4). Alternatively, can the value of that field of parent be populated/copied to children work item e.g. on work item creation?
Accepted answer
Doris, this can only be done with a Java extension. Start here: http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/setting-up-rational-team-concert-for-api-development/ follow the posts that are linked to it and finally follow http://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2012/07/31/rtc-update-parent-duration-estimation-and-effort-participant/ and replace the attributes with what you are interested in.
This might describe a simpler way to do it, but it is still a Java Extension and would require deploying it on the client and the server: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/AttributeCustomization#Providing_new_customizations_imp
Please be aware this is not simple.
This might describe a simpler way to do it, but it is still a Java Extension and would require deploying it on the client and the server: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/AttributeCustomization#Providing_new_customizations_imp
Please be aware this is not simple.