Hi Loic,

A link established in DM is essentially an extended property of that thing you are linking from. It is merely a typed pointer to some other resource. Links appear in the UI, can be queried around (see OSLC Simple Query), can appear in reports and can be managed programatically via the OSLC interface (GET/PUT/DELETE).

The OSLC specs document how to GET resource links. I am not too familar with the reporting interface and tools, but I have seen this information in there.

Hope this helps.

-jim

Hi,

Once I link (link tab) from DM (with OSLC) to an object on another server. What kind of actions could be taken?

For instance:
- Could I bring that linked object on a diagram
- Search for that object
- Comment?
- Report...

I would appreciate some document and which actions are available?

Thanks,
~Loic

Hi:

In terms of reporting, an OSLC link in DM to a resource in RM, QM or CCM can be converted into a Reportable REST URL (needed by RPE) so that data from the referenced resource can be included into the report.

On Jazz.net, the Design Management wiki page contains a link to a DM-RPE reporting tutorial (https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/DMReportTutorial). Lesson 8 in this tutorial shows how to create a report showing the traceability from DM resources to RM, CCM and QM resources. The lessons contains several RPE templates with the appropriate magic to convert the OSLC link to the reporting URL.

I hope this helps.

Kevin