Creating category

About this task

Categories are used to classify and present a hierarchical structure for your projects. In order to create a category, you must first create ALMCategoryTypeLabels. What types of categories exist for your projects is completely up to your organization, processes, and resulting outputs from your projects. Typically, categories identify the architectural components of your project, but may be used to classify features of your product, or organizational boundaries. Example category types are Offering, Product. Solution, Feature, and Component.

You create an ALMCategory record to specify a particular instantiation of a type of Category. For example, if you have an ALMCategoryTypeLabel named Product, then you might have an ALMCategory record named HCL Compass.

Categories can be arranged in hierarchies; a category may have a SuperCategory and multiple SubCategories. You create your category hierarchy to reflect the natural partitioning of classification scheme for your development deliverables, component or feature structures.

Procedure

  1. In theHCL Compass client, click File > New > ALMCategory.
  2. Enter a name for the category in the Name field. Select a category type label in the Category Type Label field. Select a category in the Super Category field.
  3. Click OK.