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# Use timeline to execute your application strategy

# Use timeline to execute your application strategy {#ariaid-title1}

* Release version: Yokohama
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* Updated January 30, 2025
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* ![](https://www.servicenow.com/docs/portal-asset/ico-clock) 2 minutes to read

Application column of the By Business Application view lists
all the business applications that are used in your organization. If you toggle to the By
Product Classification view, you can view all the technologies in the
Category column. In the By Software Model view, you can view all
the software models for each full version.

## Before you begin

Role required: sn_apm.apm_user

## About this task

By default, the TPM timeline view expands the first business application in the list
to display its associated application services at the first level. It then displays
the software and hardware models underlying the application service at the next
level.

For the subsequent list of business applications, click to expand the arrow of the
business application label to see the count and list of application services that
are tied to the application. You can also view the underlying software and hardware
models that are associated to the business application.

Application Services, Software Models, and Hardware Models headers are in bold font
to distinguish them from the application service, software, and hardware model
labels that are in hypertext.

## Procedure

1. To navigate to the Business Application form and view the record details and update, click the business application label.
2. To navigate to the Application Service form and update the record details, click the application service label.
3. To navigate to the Software Model form directly from the TPM timeline, click the software model label.  
   You can modify the lifecycle details of the software product (product models of each full version) in the form.
4. To navigate to the Hardware form and to add or update the hardware lifecycle details in the Hardware Model Lifecycles related list, click the hardware label.
5. To add a demand or project to a particular business application (in the By Business Application view) or to a software model (in the By Software Model view), point to the application or the software model and click the add new project or demand icon (![add demand or project]()) that appears next to the application or software model name.  
   Note:  
   You can create a project for a business application only when you
   activate PPM Standard (com.snc.financial_planning_pmo) plugin.

   In the New Demand form, you can see the business application name being
   auto-populated in the Business Applications
   field.

   You can add a demand to more than one business application. A demand (that
   may or may not be initially attached to a business application) can be
   attached to another business application as well.

   To add a demand to a business application, and view the demand in the
   timeline view of the TPM page:
   1. Navigate to AllEnterprise ArchitectureApplication Portfolio AnalysisDemands.
   2. Click open the demand.
   3. Select the business application in the Business Applications choice list of the Demand form to which you want the demand to be added.
   4. Save or Update the record.
   5. Navigate to AllEnterprise ArchitectureTechnology Portfolio Management (TPM)Technology Lifecycles and refresh the timeline view of the TPM page.

      You can view the number of demands that are added to the business application. Click the arrow to expand and view the demand names.  
      Note:  
      The start and end date of the demand that is attached to a business application is plotted on the demand timeline. If only one date of the demand is present, either the start or end date, then that date is plotted as a point.
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