Relating and Unrelating Items to Requests

You can relate and unrelate items to/from a request in the Visual Studio integration.

To relate or unrelate items:

1. Dimensions CM requests: In the Requests view, right-click a request and select Related. The request opens for browsing, displaying the Related tab.

   External requests: In the Requests view, right-click a request and select Relate/Unrelate. The request's Relationships tab opens.

2. To remove a related item, select the item and click Remove.

3. To add a relationship, click Add.

4. In the Relate Object dialog box, specify the following details.

   Field | Description
   Relationship type | Select the type of relationship between the request and items: Affected, In Response To, or Information.
   Relate to | Browse to select one or more items to relate. In the Find Item wizard, specify the criteria to search for items, and then select one or more items from the results. SHIFT+click to select a range of items. CTRL+click to select multiple non-consecutive items.
   Direction | Set the direction of a relationship between the request and the items, such as Child.

5. Click OK. The items are added to the tree of related items.

6. To commit changes to the relationships, click Save changes.