Version 7.5.1 is also available on the Cloud. For more information, see IBM Smart Business Cloud-Enterprise.
Master lifecycles are created at the repository level and provide specific review workflows for all of the assets in the repository. At the community level, community administrators can add specifications to the master lifecycle to customize the review processes for their communities. At the asset level, lifecycle managers can add specifications to community lifecycles to customize the review processes for their assets. In asset lifecycles, you can view the summary of the current state of the lifecycle on the State tab. To get started with master lifecycles, see Creating master lifecycles. For an overview of lifecycles, see the new Managing lifecycles for assets tutorial.
At the community level, you can prioritize lifecycles to create an order for automatically applying lifecycles to assets when assets meet conditions.
On the General Details page, the Collaboration tab is now the Review tab. To change an asset lifecycle, click Review. Collaborators who are added to a lifecyle review are called Reviewers and the reviewers who are asked to vote on the asset are now called Approvers.
At the repository, community, and asset levels, you can add instructions for reviewers to provide context and guidance for reviewing an asset. When a reviewer opens the asset, the reviewer can read the instructions for the review, vote on the asset, and view a summary of the current status of the asset within the lifecycle. When you add reviewers to the lifecycle, the Reviewer Instructions section is displayed.
You can make a review private so that it is visible to only the lifecycle managers and reviewers for the asset.
You can transfer assets to another lifecycle and delete a lifecycle when it is no longer needed.
This image shows how asset lifecycles inherit the specifications that are set for master and community lifecycles.

Even if users do not have permission to create a forum or a forum topic, they can add a comment on the Discussion page of an asset.
You can edit the settings in your user profile to customize the notifications you receive about asset updates. You can specify which types of events to be notified about; whether to be notified by email, feed, or SMS; and your role in the development of an asset. When you add a user as a reviewer, you are no longer required to select an email check box. Reviewers can customize their personal email settings. For more information about editing user notifications, see Modifying user notification settings.
You can view the permissions for each user who is involved in an asset or view the permissions across a community.
As a repository or community administrator, you can also delegate permissions requests to lifecycle managers for approval. For more information, see Granting requested permissions for assets and delegating permission requests.
You can upload a properties file to an asset that includes the name and description of the asset for each language of your choice. For example, when a browser is set to Spanish and a Spanish properties file is uploaded for an asset, the name and description for the asset are displayed in Spanish. For more information about creating properties files and adding them to assets, see Uploading properties files for asset translations.
Download or upload large assets and artifacts by using the Download and Upload clients. You can specify the destination location, pause a transfer, and view the progress of a transfer.
From the installation launchpad, you can install a full version of WebSphere Application Server and then specify the details for the full version during the server setup for Rational Asset Manager.
When you cannot access a platform that has a user interface and you want an interactive installation, you can install Rational Asset Manager by running Installation Manager in console mode. Console mode is a text-based utility with which you can run Installation Manager from a command line. To get started, see Installing Rational Asset Manager by using console mode.
You can find an asset by entering a specific GUID or the link to the asset from the web client.
You can log out of the repository connection to disconnect from the server.
You can choose to install the help locally, on a remote server, or connect to the public information center for Rational Asset Manager. For information about setting up the Eclipse client help, see Options for accessing help content.
Unless noted otherwise, the following enhancements apply to the web client only:
The banner design is updated and the banner includes new links to user information. For information about how the updates might affect your current theme, see Migrating the theme from an earlier release to version 7.5.1.
You can use the new Category schema editor to create and order your schemas. For more information about the editor, see Defining repository category schemas.
In tables that contain information about communities, lifecycles, asset types, category schemas, attributes, and relationships, you can sort alphabetically or filter rows to find information.
You can organize your attributes into columns or hide attributes. Attributes like the Unique ID, which cannot be edited, do not need to be viewed from the general details of an asset and can be hidden. Then, you can group similar attributes to further organize the list. To get started, see Creating community asset types.
In the web and Eclipse clients, you can group related assets by asset type or constraint.
If your search results contain multiple versions of the same asset, you can group the results to display the versions as one item.
When you integrate Rational Asset Manager with the Lotus® Connections, you can submit the attachments in Lotus Connections to a Rational Asset Manager community.
When you integrate Rational Asset Manager with the Microsoft Office, you can download an artifact, edit the artifact in a Microsoft Office application, and then submit the artifact into Rational Asset Manager directly from the Microsoft Office application.