Import of Traceability Links between Jama Connect Elements
Depending on your mapping configuration settings, traceability links can be imported from Jama Connect into your Enterprise Architect model.
For more details please refer to the Mapping Configuration.
Placeholders
Warning
Currently we are working on this feature to guarantee you the best user experience. So the described functionality may differ a little bit to the current state of the implemented functionality.
A traceability link in Jama Connect may refer to an element which has not yet been imported into the Enterprise Architect model.
In this case, a "placeholder" element representing this currently unknown element is automatically created during import. This placeholder is placed in a designated package in the Enterprise Architect model, called "Placeholders".
If you drag both the imported element and the placeholder onto a diagram, you can see that they are connected by the configured connector type, like so:
The purpose of this placeholder is to ensure that the traceability link is correctly imported into the Enterprise Architect model, even though the target is not yet known. This ensures that, when the referenced element is imported later on, the traceability link points to the correct target.
If I import the target element of the example above, the placeholder is automatically replaced by the correct element, and this is reflected in the diagram:
