Lifecycle Basic Concepts

An Introduction to Lifecycle Management

SmarTeam - Community Workspace enables you to maintain and manage any information

related to a revision manageable object throughout its lifecycle. By mirroring the

physical process of product management, SmarTeam - Community Workspace uses vaults,

check in, check out, and release functions to manage lifecycle revisions of manageable objects. It creates new versions of a file and protects it from unauthorized modifications.

Maintaining security and control over files is of the utmost importance.  SmarTeam - Community Workspace creates new versions of each object as it is revised and protects it from unauthorized modifications. The electronic vault ensures that only those persons with access permission may access a file, and that a file cannot be accessed by more than one person at a time.

SmarTeam - Community Workspace provides for lifecycle management of an object together with all its components (children). This option is crucial to the proper management of an Assembly and all its sub-Assemblies. SmarTeam - Community Workspace enables you to perform any revision operation on an object and all its children simultaneously as defined in the SmarTeam database. For example, if you have an Engine that has many children, you can perform any revision operation (such as Check In, Check Out, Release) on the Engine together with all its components simultaneously.

Basic Concepts

SmarTeam - Community Workspace revision management features enables you to carry out the following operations:

SmarTeam - Community Workspace ensures that the integrity of the Assembly and its children is not jeopardized by disabling lifecycle operations. The following examples show how SmarTeam - Community Workspace protects the integrity of an Assembly.