Display Attachments and Related Artifacts twice in work item with separate content
I need a few things in my custom work items that people can either upload or add links to the item.
Unfortunately there is no way to control the order of the linked items and I have not tried, but I assume there is no way to order attachments either. So an actual overview is basically not possible.
What I would like to do is to create an item with three different displays of attached files and related artifact sections.
But obviously if I add a file or a link to one of those sections, the item/link must not appear in the other ones.
Is there any way that I can achieve that? I don't mind creating new linktypes or things like that, but I wouldn't have a clue about how to do that (I am able to create new linktypes to work items, but how do you create links with just the label and the URL information?
And then again, how would it be possible to add links to attachments?
And then again, how would it be possible to add links to attachments?
Does anyone have any clue for me on how this could be solved?
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Ilona,
I don't think that you will be able to do that, at least not easily. You could create new editor presentations that could filter on the attachments/links. This is likely very expensive to do and to maintain.
New Link types are only available between work items (maybe URL references). https://rsjazz.wordpress.com/2014/12/03/creating-custom-link-types-for-rational-team-concert/ explains how. There are several drawbacks with this approach e.g. the links don't show up in reports.
You can not link to attachments. An uploaded attachment can be referenced by multiple work items.
Maybe there are ways to get what you want, but I am not optimistic. I am not very clear on why you want to do that and what the business base really is.
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