About Item Relationships

Items are related to other Dimensions CM objects, such as requests, items, baselines, and releases. Item relationships enable you to trace the creation and release of various components in a product.

An item revision can participate in the following types of relationships:

NOTE  If you have configured Dimensions CM to accept requests from an external IDM (Issue Defect Management) tool, item revisions will be related to these requests in the desktop client instead of internal Dimensions CM requests. These requests can be viewed in the desktop client Manage Relationships dialog box for a selected item by selecting External Requests. You can also have them displayed in content windows for a selected item by including External Requests for the item view using the Customize Views menu. See Customizing the Content Windows.

You can view item relationships and, for some relationships, change or unrelate them.

 

Related Topics

Relating and Unrelating Objects