{"id":4544,"date":"2013-09-06T02:15:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T09:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/?p=4544"},"modified":"2020-04-24T03:09:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T10:09:43","slug":"how-to-link-an-artifact-to-a-use-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/4544\/how-to-link-an-artifact-to-a-use-case\/","title":{"rendered":"How to link an artifact to a Use Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Start ScreenSteps Content --><\/p>\n<div class=\"LessonContent\">\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size:20px;\">Overview<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p>In <i>Use Case Flow<\/i> steps, you can create a link between a <i>Use Case <\/i>and an artifact. <i>Links<\/i> are mechanisms for referring to related information. You can create some links manually while other links are created automatically when you perform certain tasks.<\/p>\n<p>For example, links are automatically created when you embed links in Requirements, Screen Mockups, Documents, etc. You might also manually create a link to a <i>Use case<\/i>. You can create links to any external resource that has a URL as well. Connect as many artifacts to a <i>Use Case<\/i> as you want.<\/p>\n<p>This article describes the procedure to link an artifact to a <i>Use Case<\/i> record.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size:20px;\">Who should read this?<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<ul>\n<li>TopTeam Users<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size:20px;\">Step 1. Opening a Use Case record<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin:10px 0px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/media_1587713643871.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"546\" alt=\"media_1587713643871.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size:20px;\">Step 2. Place the cursor in the step where you want to embed a link and click the Link drop-down menu<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin:10px 0px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wpid28385-media_1478597287477.png\" width=\"677\" height=\"492\" alt=\"wpid28385-media_1478597287477.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size:20px;\">Step 3. The Link artifact window opens<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin:10px 0px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wpid28386-media_1478597370245.png\" width=\"555\" height=\"486\" alt=\"wpid28386-media_1478597370245.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<h3 class=\"StepTitle\" style=\"font-size:20px;\">Step 4. The artifact is embedded as a link in the Use Case step<\/h3>\n<div class=\"StepImage\" style=\"margin:10px 0px;\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"padding:3px; border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-layzr=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/wpid28387-media_1478597408329.png\" width=\"680\" height=\"539\" alt=\"wpid28387-media_1478597408329.png\" \/>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p>A <i>Traceability Link<\/i> is created between this record and the artifact which is linked to the record. You can view this traceability in the <i>Traceability<\/i> tab. The <i>Traceability Link <\/i>will be created only if the <i>Traceability Rule<\/i> is defined between the two record types, refer to the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/2022\/configuring-traceability-schemarules-for-record-types\/\" target=\"_blank\">Configuring Traceability Schema\/Rules for Record Types<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"LessonStep top\">\n<div class=\"StepInstructions\">\n<p>Revised: April 24th, 2020<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- End ScreenSteps Content --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview In Use Case Flow steps, you can create a link between a Use Case and an artifact. Links are mechanisms for referring to related information. You can create some links manually while other links are created automatically when you perform certain tasks. For example, links are automatically created when you embed links in Requirements, Screen Mockups, Documents, etc. You might also manually create a link to a Use case. You can create links to any external resource that has a URL as well. Connect as many artifacts to a Use Case as you want. This article describes the procedure <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[211],"class_list":["post-4544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-use-case-modeling","tag-use-cases"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paoaNA-1bi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4544"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50147,"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4544\/revisions\/50147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.technosolutions.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}