Working with Child Release Packages

After you have linked child release packages to their parents, you can work with the child packages.

A child release package:

• Cannot have any child release packages
• Has its own deployment task collection
• Follows the parent's workflow; deployment must be done at the parent level
• Follows the parent's deployment path
• When added to the parent, causes the parent to be reset to the beginning of the deployment path
• Retains a history of previous deployment paths it had before being added to a parent
• Retains a history of new deployment paths started after having been added to a parent

After a child is added, the child release packages have a Parent Package Details tab instead of a Deployment Path tab, to indicate that the deployment path is now following the parent release package path.

The parent release package has an additional tab called Child Packages that lists the child packages. In this list, you can do the following:

• Click the child release package link to go to the item.
• Click the view icon to see a quick view of the child release package information in a pop-up.
• Through the Actions menu beside each child release package, you can select the following options:
  • Edit Deployment Tasks
  • Edit Deployment Units
  • Unlink Child Package
  • Edit Requests
  • Reload Deployment Unit Data
  • Reload Request Data