Working with purposes

A purpose defines the project state and ensures that it selects the right members when you update. Each project has a purpose. Use purposes to set up multiple prep, shared, working, or visible versions of the same project for different uses, such as different levels of testing.

Purposes are only a part of build management. The release and purpose combination for a project determines which process rule the project uses.

Each release contains a list of process rules that are valid for that release. Use process rules to control the process for a team for a particular release, and to let teams working on different releases use different processes.Release Properties dialog box

A process rule specifies how a project is updated. To use a process rule, a project must have a release and purpose set. There is one active process rule for each purpose for a release.

Project Grouping Properties dialog box

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