Welcome
Managing Value Streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
Solution versions
Publishing the draft solution version
You can publish the draft solution version in the pipeline stage to lock the application versions.

Release Notes
This document includes information about the new features introduced, defects fixed, and known issues identified in this version of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). You can also find the installation and upgrade instructions along with the contact information of HCL Customer Support.
Getting Started
This document provides an overview of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
System Requirements
This document contains information about hardware and software requirements for HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
High-Level Overview
Use HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) to automate your release lifecycle and manage your DevOps value streams.
Learning
Learn how to complete frequently-used tasks such as creating value streams.
Managing licenses
Configure your license or apply a trial key.
Administering
This guide describes how to install HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity). After you install Velocity, you can perform administrative tasks such as license configuration, upgrading, migrating, managing access permissions and security. This guide is intended for system administrators.
Managing Value Streams
A value stream represents the objects and activities that you employ to deliver customer value, from initial concept to final delivered project.
- Creating value streams
  Create a value stream and then customize it by defining phases and stages that reflect your typical workflow.
- Viewing value streams
  Viewing value streams using list and card view layouts.
- Value stream metrics
  Assess project quality, progress, and performance with the HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) metric data tools.
- Navigating value streams
  Manage a value stream's displayed data by applying filters and queries.
- DevOps query language
  Use the DevOps query language to filter the information displayed in your value stream.
- External YAML configuration
  You can create a minimal value realization of different DevOps tools into HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) quickly using external YAML configuration file.
- Pipelines
  Pipelines provide a streamlined method to manage the applications in your development lifecycle. With pipelines, you can auto-generate deployment plans and deploy applications versions to all environments.
- Solution versions
  - Enabling the solution version feature on DevOps Velocity
    When you want to use the solution version on HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity), you must enable it.
  - Adding an application to the pipeline
    You can add an application to the pipeline in HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity).
  - Creating the solution version
    You can create a solution version in the pipeline stage with combination of application versions.
  - Editing the draft solution version
    You can edit the draft solution version to update name, description, and application version combinations.
  - Publishing the draft solution version
    You can publish the draft solution version in the pipeline stage to lock the application versions.
  - Deploying the solution version
    You can deploy the solution versions in the environments.
  - Unlinking the solution version
    You can unlink the solution version from the pipeline stage.
  - Deleting the solution version
    You can delete the solution version permanently from the pipeline stage when it is not required.
Developing Data Insights
The Insights feature provides DevOps metrics for your project data.
Releasing Software
A release is a repeatable plan that is used to drive deployments.
Extending Product Functions
Learn how to extend the function of HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity)
How to
The topics in this section describe how to work with HCL DevOps Velocity (Velocity) features. Tutorials and workbooks are available for users of all experience levels.
Troubleshooting
Before you contacting support, gather background information and perform tasks that will assist in solving the problem. It helps to be as specific as possible and include all relevant information.
Notices for DevOps Velocity
This document provides information about copyright, trademarks, terms and conditions for the product documentation.
DevOps Velocity GDPR statement
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has been adopted by the European Union (EU) and applies from May 25, 2018.
Glossary

Publishing the draft solution version

You can publish the draft solution version in the pipeline stage to lock the application versions.

About this task

You can publish the draft solution version at all the stages in the pipeline to lock the application versions. The published solution version is indicated by

icon. After publishing, you cannot make any changes to the solution version.

Procedure

You can perform any of the following actions to Publish the draft Solution version:
1. Click on the draft solution version, and then select Publish / Lock.
2. Click on the environment, and then select Solution Version > Publish.
  The Publish window is displayed.
Click Confirm.
The icon is suffixed to the published solution version on the Solutions Versions row.

Results

You have published the solution version in the pipeline.