Adding HP ALM widgets to Rational CLM dashboards

You can add predefined widgets to a CLM dashboard so that you can view HP ALM data alongside widgets for other Rational® artifacts. You can add widgets to your product, team, or personal CLM dashboard.

Before you begin

You must have permission to change the dashboard.

About this task

You must specify a project for the widget to report on, and you can also configure the appearance of the widget. You can create separate widgets for different projects. Because they retrieve data from HP ALM, you might be asked to log in to the HP ALM server when you set up a widget or refresh its contents.

Several of the widgets display HP ALM information filtered through Favorite views, which are configured in HP ALM. Recent widgets indicate recent changes in HP ALM.

Table 1. Widgets for HP ALM test planning
Widget type Rational adapter widgets
Test cases
  • My, favorite, recent
  • Test cases (for a test plan)
  • Test cases validating requirements
  • Test case with no designer
  • Favorite and recent test sets
  • Recent test runs
Defects My, favorite, recent, unassigned
Requirements Favorite
Suspicious requirements in HP ALM Suspect links and test cases (to suspect Rational requirement artifacts)

Procedure

  1. Open a CLM dashboard and click Add Widget.
  2. From the Select Catalog drop-down menu, under the Friends heading, select the catalog for Rational adapter widgets. If your site uses auto-friending in configuring servers, you see the selection Rational Adapter for HP ALM. Otherwise, select the name of the friend server for your adapter.
  3. The contents of the catalog is displayed. You can narrow the list of displayed items with the Select Category menu or with filtering.
  4. Select a widget and click Add Widget to display it on your dashboard.
  5. Change the appearance of your widget with the Settings and Appearance menus or follow these steps.
    1. Click user preferences. You are prompted to log in to your HP ALM server, if needed, and to allow your CLM server and HP ALM server to collaborate. A window opens for settings for your widget, as in the following example.

      An example of a window for selecting user preference settings

    2. Select your user preference settings from the drop-down menus and click OK. The project name that you selected is appended to the widget name and the widget is populated with information from HP ALM.
    3. You can open the twistie next to each listed item to display a preview as shown in the following example:

      An example of the Favorite test cases widget.


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