You can combine version management and change management by setting up relationships between requests and revisions of items or the baselines containing item revisions. Three relationships are available:
Affected: Changes described in the request affect the related revision of the item or baseline.
In Response To: The item revision or baseline that was created deals with the related request.
Information: The item revision or baseline contains information pertaining to the request, or the request contains information pertaining to the contents of the item revision.
Rules can be set up in the Administration Console that control the actions that can be performed on requests and items and the relationships between them. These are described in About Change Management Rules in the Process Configuration Guide.
You can specify a relationship between one request and another. You can specify a system-defined relationship or a user-defined relationship.
The system-defined relationship are as follows:
Dependent: requests that are dependent on other requests for closure.
Info: requests that point to other requests.
User-defined relationship can be defined in the Administration Console for use by all users.