Link One Issue to Another One (or to Multiple Issues)
Visual Builder Studio provides a way to link issues to other issues, using a predefined set of bidirectional relations. You can use linked issues to connect work across teams and projects in VB Studio. Linked issues can also help your team uncover, understand, and manage dependencies and related work.
Issues can have the following link types, all but the first one being used in pairs:
- Relates to
- Requires
- Required By
- Testing Discovered
- Discovered While Testing
- Depends On
- Dependency Of
- Implements
- Implemented By
- Fixes
- Will Be Fixed By
- Split To
- Split From
- Contains
- Contributes To
For example, if you set the relation type to Requires for the first issue, the issue you link it to will automatically be set to Required By. The linked issue is required by the original issue.
Set up a relation between linked issues from the Edit Issue page:
- Expand the Relation Type drop-down list and select the relation type to set up.
- Click the Issues search box, enter your search criteria and, from the list, select the issue to link.
- Click the + Create Relations button.The row below the selector and search box displays the type of relation you selected, a link to the linked issue, and the linked-to issue's description and status.
Description of the illustration issues-page-relation-type-selector-created.png
- Click the issue link to display the Issues page for the
linked-to issue.
Below the selector and search box, the Relations section displays a row showing the type of relation that was automatically selected for the linked-to issue.
Description of the illustration issues-page-relation-type-selector-linked-issue.png
For example, if you selected "Requires" for the relation type when you created the relationship, "Required By" will be the relation type that is shown for the linked-to issue.
