You can add conditions to apply master and community lifecycles
to certain asset types. As you add more asset types and categorizations
for the lifecycle, the conditions become more complex.
Before
you begin:
Create a list of the asset types and categorizations for this
lifecycle to apply to.
For example, for a lifecycle to apply to
all possible assets that are slide documents, you might include the
following asset types and categorizations:
The Presentation asset type
The Design asset type and the Slides categorization
The Documentation asset type and either the Presentation categorization
or the Slides categorization
Place the list items into a formula or a tree diagram to visualize
how the conditions can be structured in Rational® Asset Manager.
A
formula for applying the lifecycle to all slide documents might look
like this example:
[Asset type] [Is] [Presentation]
[Asset type] [Is] [Design] AND [Categorization] [Is] [Slides]
[Asset type] [Is] [Documentation] AND ([Categorization] [Is] [Presentation]
OR [Categorization] [Is] [Slides])
A tree diagram for applying the lifecycle to all slide
documents might look like this example:
Identify primary conditions and nested conditions. In this example,
the primary conditions are the asset types and the nested conditions
are the categories. This division might not apply to all scenarios,
but is used here to differentiate between primary and nested conditions.
In the web client, open the Conditions section of a lifecycle:
For a lifecycle at the community level, click Administration > Communities > Community > Lifecycles, where Community is
the name of a community that you administer.
For a lifecycle at the master level, click Administration > Lifecycles.
Select a lifecycle or click New Lifecycle to
create a lifecycle.
In the general settings, locate the Conditions section.
Create the conditions in the lifecycle. For a demonstration of
how to create the conditions, watch this Show Me video.
After you determine which asset type and categorization
combinations to add as conditions for your lifecycle, you are ready
to create the conditions in the lifecycle.
Lesson checkpoint
You planned the conditions for a lifecycle and created
them in Rational Asset Manager.