Work on a timeline-oriented release for multiple products

Monitor and work on a release that follows the timeline-oriented release process for multiple products.

Before you begin

Role required: sn_dpr_model.product_manager or sn_dpr_model.release_admin

About this task

When working on a release for multiple products, you can choose to work with the main release or a specific product release. The main release controls everything and includes all the execution activities for each product release under it.

• Perform primary activities, like starting the release and managing phases and tasks in the main release.
• Define the release scope and manage change requests in each product release.
• Run policies for the current phase either from the main release level or from an individual product release. The policy statuses from the individual product releases are aggregated into the policy status of the main release. For more information about how the aggregated status is derived, see Policy status aggregation.

You can monitor the progress of an individual product release, or you can track the overall progress at the main release level.

Procedure

1. Navigate to Workspaces > Digital Product Release Workspace.
2. Select the releases icon ().
3. Select a release from the list to open.
4. If the release isn't in progress, select Start release.
5. Select Dashboard to monitor the overall status of the release, see the details and all the products that have their individual releases.
   • Select the Release dashboard tab to view important dates of the release, release tasks, policies, related tasks, and approvals by their state for all releases together.

     For more information, see Release dashboard for a multi-product release.

   • Select the Details tab to make any necessary changes to the release details, such as the release name, owner, status, or description.
   • Select the Product tab to view a list of all products, including their release versions and statuses.
6. Select a product to work on the release from the View by drop-down list.
   Based on the selected option, you can see different sections as follows:

   View by option	Description
   All products	You can see the following sections: Release execution: Work on the main release which involves starting the release, retargeting the release, and executing the release to manage phases, tasks, key dates, policies, and approvals. All of these actions apply to all releases. Change requests: View a list of all change requests across releases for all products.
   Single product	You can see the following sections for the selected product's release: Overview: View the progress and quality of the product's release on the respective dashboards. For more information, see Release Overview dashboard for a multi-product release and Release Quality dashboard. Release execution: View the details of phases of the product's release or run policies mapped to its phases for compliance checks. Note: In the Details tab, the Policy status field displays a combined compliance status for all releases. Release scope: View and update the scope of the product's release, including product enhancements, planning items, and related tasks such as incidents and problems associated with the release. Change requests: View and manage change requests related to the product's release. On the Release form header, select the number under the Artifacts label to manage artifacts in the product's release. The Artifacts label is available in the Overview, Release scope, or Change requests section. For more information, see Manage artifacts in a release.

7. Close a release after verifying the completeness.
   For more information, see Close a release.