Creating a purpose

Each project has a purpose. A purpose defines the project state and maps it to a process rule for the project release. The purpose ensures that the right members are selected when you update a project.

About this task

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.

Procedure

  1. Start the Purposes dialog box by clicking Task, pointing to New, and selecting Process Rule.

    The Create Process Rule dialog box appears.

  2. Start the Purposes dialog box by clicking the browse button to the right of the Purpose list.

    The Purposes dialog box appears.

  3. In the Purposes dialog box, click the plus sign to add a purpose.
  4. Type the name of the new purpose and double-click the Used For field to select what the purpose is used for.
  5. Click OK.

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