Create parent-child relationships between software products

Create and define the parent-child relationships between your software products so that your child products can inherit life-cycle dates from their parent products.

Before you begin

Role required: sam_admin

Procedure

1. Navigate to Workspaces > Software Asset Workspace.
2. From the Software Asset Workspace, open the License operations view.
3. From the navigation menu of the License operations view, navigate to Content > Parent-Child Relationship.
4. Select New.
5. On the form, fill in the fields.

   Table 1. Create New Software Product Parent-Child Relationship form

   Field	Description
   Parent product	Parent product that the specified child product inherits life-cycle dates from.
   Child product	Child product that inherits life-cycle dates from the specified parent product. If you leave this field empty, a blanket parent-child relationship is created, in which all products under the same publisher as the specified parent product are considered its children and inherit its life-cycle dates.
   Active	Option that indicates if the parent-child relationship is active.
   Exclusion	Option to exclude the specified child product from any existing blanket parent-child relationships that are defined using the specified parent product.

6. Select Save.

Result

The Software Asset Management application automatically updates the life-cycle dates of the specified child product with the life-cycle dates of the specified parent product, given that the child product does not already have its own specific life-cycle dates.

Note:

These life-cycle dates are automatically populated only in the Software Lifecycle Report [sam_sw_product_lifecycle_report] table. If you want to populate them in the Software Product Lifecycles [sam_sw_product_lifecycle] table, you must create custom life cycles. For more information on these tables and on custom life cycles, see Product life cycles.

What to do next

View life-cycle dates and other life-cycle information for both your parent and child software products in the Lifecycle management dashboard. You can access this dashboard by navigating to Workspaces > Software Asset Workspace > Software asset analytics > Lifecycle management. See Lifecycle management dashboard for more information on this dashboard.