Creating and editing groups of related change proposals

As requirements in Rational® DOORS® are often related to other requirements in the same or different modules, you can create groups of related change proposals. For example, if you raise a change proposal against a user requirement, it might involve changes to related system requirements and test requirements. Putting all these change proposals into the same group means that they can be reviewed and applied together, or not applied at all.

About this task

A group can contain change proposals from any change proposal system below it in the Rational DOORS database hierarchy. If you want a group to hold change proposals from a number of different change proposal systems and modules, create it at the top of the hierarchy of folders and projects. You will be able to navigate to it from all of its descendents.

A multiple change proposal can be included in a group.

Only the primary change proposal in a duplicate set can be included in a group. Duplicates in a duplicate set cannot be included.

There are two types of groups, as described in the following table.

Table 1. Change proposal group types
Group type Description
Master All the change proposals in the group inherit their status from the group.

Include change proposals in a master group if you want to prevent the review team from approving some of the change proposals but not others. For example, you might be proposing changes to several different requirements, but the changes are only valid if they are all considered together.

Subordinate Each change proposal in the group can be reviewed individually. The group inherits its status from the change proposal that is furthest behind in the review process. For example, a subordinate group that contains change proposals with the statuses New, Approved, On Hold and In Review has a status of On Hold.

Include change proposals in a subordinate group if you want them to be considered together.

The subordinate group status changes from New as soon as any of the change proposals it contains move into the review cycle.

The user who creates the group is the group owner. If the group owner is a change proposal manager, they can change the group type and status. If the group owner is a standard user, they can change only the group type.

Procedure

  1. In the database explorer, select the appropriate project or folder, and click Tools > Change Proposal System > Manage Groups.
  2. Use the Search up and Search down buttons to navigate the hierarchy. You can only move between the database root and the folder where you opened the Manage Groups tool.
  3. Click New.
  4. Type a name for the group in the Name box, and select a Type for the group. You can change the group type at any time.
  5. Click OK.
  6. To edit the group, select it from the list and click Edit. You can change the Name of the group and itsType. If the group is of type Master, you can change its Status.

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