Creating Turnovers

You should create a turnover when you are ready to begin configuring the deployment details for an application release. You can create a turnover directly from a release train, an application release, or through the turnovers project. Regardless of where you create them, turnovers must always be associated with applications, because you are always deploying application artifacts.

Prerequisites:

• You must have an existing deployment path.
• You must have an existing application release.
• If you create the turnover from a release train, or by submitting into the Turnovers project and selecting Item Type Release Train, you must already have a release train to which to associate it.
• To create a turnover from an application release, you must first begin work on the application release.
• To create a turnover from a release train, the release train must first be submitted and started.

To create a turnover:

1. In a release train or application release, in the Turnovers tab, click Create Turnover.
   Note: A release train must be in the Construction stage and an application release must be in the Begin Work stage for the Create Turnover button to appear. These are enforced by rules in the process app.
2. Fill out the required fields and any desired optional fields and then click Submit.
3. Configure and manage the turnover using the tabs that appear in the form.

Required Fields

The required fields when you create a turnover are as follows:

• Title
• Developer
• Description
• Release Type: Select the release type, such as Development, Emergency, or Normal. The release type filters the deployment paths available to this turnover.
• Deployment Path: Specify the deployment path for this turnover. You must select the release type first, because deployment paths are filtered by release type. Only active deployment paths appear for selection.

Other required fields that may appear, depending on how you create the turnover, are as follows:

• Item Type: Select Release Train or Application Release.
• Release Train: Select the release train to which this turnover belongs. This field appears only if you select Item Type Release Train.
• Application Releases: Select the application releases to which this turnover belongs. This field appears for either Item Type, but you can select only one application release for Item Type Application Release and multiple application releases for Item Type Release Train.

Tabs

The tabs available from a turnover once it is created are as follows:

• Deployment Path: View the deployment path for this turnover, including detailed deployment history for each environment in the path. Refer to Creating and Designing Deployment Paths.
• Deployment Tasks: View and add deployment tasks for this turnover. Refer to Adding Deployment Tasks.
• Component Versions: View, download, and add component versions for this turnover. Refer to Adding Component Versions and Snapshots.
• Requirements/Development: Select requirements and development work items to associate with this turnover. The selection is limited to those already associated with the application release or application releases to which the turnover belongs.
• Notes/Attachments: View notes and attachments that have been added to the item through the Serena Work Center More option and related email correspondence.
• History: View the history of the turnover item.

Related Topics

About Turnovers

Creating and Designing Deployment Paths

Path Elements