CM Rules Section for Requests

The CM Rules section of the content pane for requests displays details for the Change Management rules for the selected request type. It consists of:

• A Toolbar containing buttons to perform the following functions:

  Button	Function
  	Allows you to edit the CM Rules for the selected request type using the Edit CM Rules dialog box.
  	Allows you to view the phase usage for the selected request type using the CM Phase Usage dialog box.

• Details for the request type selected in the navigation pane consisting of:

  Field	Description
  CM Rules Enabled?	Whether CM Rules are enabled for this request type.
  Analysis Phase starts with State	The first lifecycle state in the Analysis phase.
  Work Phase starts with State	The first lifecycle state in the Work phase.
  Frozen Phase starts with State	The first lifecycle state in the Frozen phase.
  Minimum State of Child before permit Parent to close	If the request type is the child of another request, then this lifecycle state specifies the minimum state at which this child request must be before the parent request may be closed.
  Allow request to be closed with affected item revisions	Requests can be closed/actioned to a frozen phase without having an in-response-to item relationship.
  Lifecycle:	A diagram of the normal states of the lifecycle associated with the request type.

Related Topics

What are Change Management Rules?

Object Types Content Pane