A project grouping groups projects by purpose
and release, and holds the tasks and baseline used when you update
a project. Adding a task to a project grouping provides a quick way
for a project grouping to gather the objects necessary to proceed
with a build.
The following describes
why developers might add tasks to a project grouping. Developer John
is working in an Insulated Development project
grouping and is ready to complete a task, but first must merge parallel
versions. John merges the parallel changes, then adds the tasks for
the merged objects with his project grouping. After adding the tasks
associated with the objects to the project grouping, Joe updates the
projects, and then builds.
A build manager might
add tasks to a project grouping in the following example. The build
manager has completed the final System Testing build.
SQE finds a problem that must be fixed before the release. Development
fixes the problem, then hands off the task to the build manager. The
build manager adds the task to the System Testing project
grouping, then performs another build.
Procedure
- Right-click over the appropriate project grouping, and
select Properties.
The Properties dialog
box appears.
- Click the Tasks tab.
The Tasks tab
shows the tasks that you have manually added to the project grouping,
either in this dialog box or by using the Add to Project
Grouping option from the Tasks context
menu or the Actions main menu.
The tasks
you add manually are not the only tasks in the project grouping. The
project grouping contains the tasks completed after the baseline was
created.
Therefore, project groupings can contain tasks because
of the following occurrences:
- The tasks are associated with the baseline.
View the tasks by
clicking the Baseline Projects tab, then double-clicking
the baseline. The Properties dialog box displays
the tasks in the Tasks tab.
- The tasks are in the update template, but are not in the baseline.
View
these tasks by clicking the Tasks tab and looking
in the Tasks on top of the baseline list.
- You added the tasks manually.
Click the Tasks tab
to view these tasks. (When you manually add a task, its required tasks
are also added.)
You can choose which tasks on top of the baseline
you want to use.
- To use all of the tasks on top of the baseline, click Use
All.
- To choose which tasks are used, clear or select each task in the
appropriate Used check box.
- Click the Add Task button.
The Select
Task dialog box appears. Use it to find the task that you
want to add to the project grouping.