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Project Lifecycle Diagram

The Project Lifecycle diagram gives you a graphical view of a project lifecycle and lets administrators modify lifecycles. The diagram lets you easily determine the relationship of states and the impact of connections between them including promote, demote, and approval processes. The graphical layout diagram reflects any changes that administrators make to a project lifecycle.

The Project Lifecycle diagram works in the following ways:

• You can reorganize the layout by dragging a state box to a new position. When you drag a state box, all of its attached connections also move.
• You can view or modify state or process properties by double-clicking the respective box or line; modifications are reflected in the Administrator application.
• A shortcut menu provides you with options to Zoom, and Save as JPG.

You can access the Project Lifecycle Diagram from the Workbench or the Administrator application. On the CA Harvest SCM Web Interface, you can access the Project Lifecycle diagram from the Project Properties Lifecycle tab page. To display or update your lifecycle diagrams in the Web Interface, an administrator must perform setup steps.

Note: For information about setting up lifecycle diagrams in the Web Interface, see the Implementation Guide.

Project states are depicted as boxes with a colored bar across the top that indicates the View type. The name of the state and view are also shown on the box. If the state has an approve process, an approval icon shows in the lower right corner of the box.

CA Harvest SCM promote and demote processes are represented as connecting, directed lines. A double arrowhead indicates multiple promote processes, multiple demote processes, or whether both a promote process and a demote process exist between two states with the transition in the same direction (same from-state and same to-state). The double arrowhead exists in the latter case even if only a promote process or only a demote process shows. Both pre-linked and post-linked notify and user-defined processes are shown as icons on the transitions.