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Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
Using HCL Compass ALM
The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages and ALM schema provide out-of-the-box solutions for ensuring ALM best practices in your new or existing HCL Compass change management system.
Managing work
The work records contained in the ALMWork package provide a way of keeping track of the requests and tasks that must be addressed.
Working with roles and process
Role definitions can be used to determine what actions each user is allowed to perform on a project.
Activating tasks

Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
- Using your HCL Compass Web client
  HCL Compass Web is a browser-based interface to HCL Compass that runs on Windows, the UNIX system, and Linux. You can track defects and change requests in HCL Compass Web through this interface. When a session times out, you can re-authenticate and continue where you left off because the state of the user interface is retained.
- Using the HCL Compass Client
  Use the HCL Compass Client to submit, modify, and track change requests and to analyze project progress.
- Using HCL Compass for Windows® client
  You can use HCL Compass to perform daily activities after the schema developer and administrator define and set up the schema, schema repository, and user database.
- Using HCL Compass ALM
  The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages and ALM schema provide out-of-the-box solutions for ensuring ALM best practices in your new or existing HCL Compass change management system.
  - Overview
    An ALM schema provides the capabilities for security, governance, traceability, and workflow management.
  - Getting started for administrators
    Administrators can define roles and processes for each project, as well as security policies to allow access to projects.
  - Working with projects
    All work in the ALM schema is organized by a Project. The Project can help provide the context, access control, and security model for your work.
  - Managing work
    The work records contained in the ALMWork package provide a way of keeping track of the requests and tasks that must be addressed.
    - Overview of ALM work process
      In the ALM work process, requests are resolved by completed tasks and activities.
    - Working with roles and process
      Role definitions can be used to determine what actions each user is allowed to perform on a project.
  - Tracking work and builds
    These topics describe how to create baseline and build records, and how to track and complete activities, tasks, and requests.
  - Sample data
    A sample database is provided to help get you started with the new schema.
  - Mandatory fields for ALM record types

Activating tasks

About this task

In your role as Lead Developer, periodically query for newly submitted tasks and then decide whether to activate them.

Procedure

In the HCL VersionVault client Navigator view, navigate to the an appropriate query and double-click the query to run it.
Select a task from the Query Results grid and review the details.
If you decide not to work on the task, click the Utilities icon on the task record form and select Reject Task, which moves the task to the Completed state. Click Apply.
To activate the task, click the Change State icon on the task record form and select Activate Task. The state is changed to Activated. Click Apply.
To create activities for the task, click the Utilities icon and select Create Activity. The HCL VersionVault client creates three activities with the same headline as the task. The three activities are of the following types, which represent the different teams involved in completing the task:
- Dev
- Doc Assess
- Test
If the default Dev activity owner is not correct, double-click the Dev type activity in the Activities table to open that record form. Click the Modify icon and assign the activity to a developer by selecting that developer's name in the Owner field.
Alternatively, you can create an activity at a later time by clicking File > New > ALMActivity. From within the activity record form you can specify the task associated with the activity.
Click Apply.