Adding a saved query to an Explorer

Use this operation to add a query to an explorer. Adding a query enables you to quickly access query results, view associated objects for query results, and group the results in like categories. Some examples of queries you might want to save include projects and tasks belonging to teammates, all released baselines, or all completed tasks for the past month belonging to your team.

About this task

You can add queries for projects, project groupings, and baselines to the Projects explorer; and add queries for tasks and folders to the Tasks explorer. If Rational Change is installed, you can add queries for change requests to the Change Requests explorer. You can also add queries for processes, process rules, releases, and folder templates to the Releases explorer. Note that you cannot add queries for objects to an explorer.

Procedure

  1. In the Explorer toolbar, click Add Saved Query icon.

    The Select Query dialog box appears.

  2. Select the query you want to add to the explorer and click OK.

    The added query displays at the bottom of the appropriate explorer.

    Note that you can also create a query by clicking Create and using the Create Query dialog box.

    Alternatively, you can start the Query dialog box and click the Define Query tab to define a query. After you save a query, you can add it to an explorer by right-clicking and choosing Add to Explorer.


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