As you work with deployment process templates, you are presented with buttons on the user interface for workflow actions that are available to you. The default workflow for a deployment process template is shown in the following figure.
The actions that appear here are:
New
Send for review
Approve
Back to development
Retire
Delete
For example, after you create a deployment process template, the deployment process template goes into the Development state, and the deployment process template form shows the next action, Send for review.
When the deployment process template is in the Development state, designated owners create deployment tasks for a stage of the application release. Once you click Send for review, the deployment process template is ready to be approved.
If you need to change the deployment tasks associated with the deployment process template, you’ll need to click Back to development, make the changes while it is in the Development state, and again click Send for review to have the additional changes reviewed.
The designated reviewer clicks Approve to approve the deployment process template and it becomes Available. In this state, the template can be applied to a release package, so that its associated deployment tasks are copied to the corresponding stage of the release package.
When a deployment process template is no longer in use in your organization, you can click Retire to make it Inactive and remove it from the list of available templates. You can Delete deployment process templates that are in Inactive state to remove them from the system.
For information on how the workflows in Serena Release Manager work together, see Progressing Releases Through Their Lifecycles.