Creating Uses and Used by relationship between Change Request's

[lokanand]

I would like to create a new Change Request from an existing Change request and link it by uses relationship with the existing Change request. Is it supported in OOTB with some configurations?
If not what is the solution for this?

[ddemay]

9.1 does support configurable links. There is an API to be able to persist
versioned/mastered objects to them. The ootb interface to soft type these
objects is not configured for change requests, but api allows you to persist
anything implementing the interfaces (a design by contract sort of thing)



I did not check if you can do a save as on a change request, but you could
do something like that and store something to the save as history object
table and implement the appropriate actions and jsp files from the CR
information page.



Let me know if you need more pointers on configurable links.the example you
can install deals with parts and documents.



Dave

[lokanand]

TThanks for your reply Dave. As you rightly mentioned, configurable links can be used to create relationships for parts and documents and interface doesn't allow creating links for Change Request.
You made an interesting point that API can be used to persist the links. So, the overall solution will be something like
1) Create a new Link class called "SubCR" and implement "Configurable" interface (Can you please let me know the interface to be implemented? I didn't find the configurable interface)
2) Use the methods from the interface to define the class's (left and right) to be linked
3) Define the additional attributes to the link Class "SubCR"
4) Persist the link class
5) Modify the details page of the CR to create a link between the CR's