Predefined work items: Defining team members
In the Work Items view you find some predefined work items that guide you to get started (Figure | 9-7). You will assign a few of them to yourself to prepare the project.
Figure 29-7 View of work items initially created
| Select the Define team members work item. This opens the Work Item editor, where you can find a description of what you have to do to complete this task (Figure | 9-8). Select some appropriate values:
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Change status from New to Start Working.
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Severity: Major
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Owned by: yourself
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Planned for: Inception
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Due: today's date
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| Save (note that the status changes from Start Working to In progress).
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Figure 29-8 Work Item view
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| As described in the work item, open the Project Area editor:
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Locate the Members section.
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Select Create.
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Select Create a new User.
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Fill in the user information.
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Assign to a Repository group (JazzUsers)
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Assign a Rational Concert - Developer license.
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Click Finish.
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Figure 29-9 Assign members to the project and process roles to the members
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| When you are done adding the members and save the project area, you are prompted for sending an invitation e-mail the new members, assuming that the e-mail service has been configured on the server (Figure | 9-10). If the Mail service is not configured, you will see an exception that you can ignore.
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Figure 29-10 Send team Invitation to new members of a project area
Example 29-1 E-mail generated by Team Concert to invite new team member
You have been invited to join the Jazz team ITSO RedBank Project.
You can explore the related project area via the web UI at
https://rcsnl-cc.rcsnl.ams.nl.ibm.com:9443/jazz/web/projects/ITSO%20RedBank
%20Project.
Use File>Accept Team Invitation within the Rational Team Concert client to
open the Accept Team Invitation dialog.
Copy the invitation below and paste into the Accept Invitation text field.
teamRepository=https://rcsnl-cc.rcsnl.ams.nl.ibm.com:9443/jazz/
userId=lziosi
userName=Lara Ziosi
projectAreaName=ITSO RedBank Project
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| The other team members can accept the invitation as described in the e-mail.
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| If e-mail notification was not configured on the server, then you will see an exception that can be ignored.
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| However, you will have to provide the foregoing connection details to the users in some way. With that information, the users can do these steps:
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Open the Work Items perspective and select Connect to the Repository.
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In the dialog that opens, select the project area name to connect to.
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| In the Work Item editor for Define Team Members, select Resolve and Fixed.
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