Working with item links

You can link items to other items in the same project to establish relationships and manage changes that may impact other items. You can link items in parent/child or peer relationships. See Linking examples for common uses for linking.

Tip:  If you frequently view information about items linked to other items, you may want to add linked items columns to item lists. You can easily view and navigate to more information about linked items from these columns. See Viewing linked item information in item lists. To identify items with broken links, add the Has Broken Links column to the item list. Broken links occur when a parent/child link does not have a parent item or all child items are removed, or when a peer link only has one item.

1. Click the Traceability tab when you are viewing or editing an item.

2. Click Add Link to create a link. See Adding links.

3. Expand a link to work with the linked items.

• Click a linked item to open it.
• Click Yes for an item marked as suspect to view the suspect dependencies. See Investigating suspect dependencies.
• Click Mark next to a linked item to mark it as suspect to indicate changes may be needed. See Marking items as suspect.

4. Click a link to edit it or click Delete next to a link to delete it. See Editing and deleting links.

5. Click Save to save any changes.