VERSION 7
What’s to Come?
Workflow – Lifecycle Definition
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Ability to define custom
Lifecycles
ON
HOLD
NEW
BEING
WORKED
IN
REVIEW
WAITING
FOR
APPROVAL
APPROVED
REJECTED
Workflow – Services
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You can select different services for each stage
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Item Level Auditing
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Records changes to items into an audit log
Ability to search log reports to see
what changes were made by who
Electronic Signatures
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Enables commands to require a
signature for the command to be
completed
Electronic Signatures are performed by entering user password
Workflow – Version Control
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Allows a command to perform snapshots or checkpoints
of the item when the command is run
When Item Versioning is enabled there are two additional
options available:
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Deleted Items Bin – provides a holding
area for deleted objects from where
they can be recovered
Require New Version for Checkpointed Items – when selected,
the project will require the user to run the New Version
command before they can make changed to checkpointed
items
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This item used to be present on the Project Setup home page under
the section “Versioning”
Workflow – Privileges
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The Access section allows more control over who has
access to a project or object when it is in a certain stage
or state
Workflow – Commands
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Commands section allows you to define what life cycle
actions can be done to a project when it is in a particular
stage
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For example, if a project is in the
Beta stage, the commands
available would likely include
Advance to Production followed
by Start Second Beta
Commands that do not change the project’s stage can
also be defined
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For example, a command could be created to check whether a project is
ready for production; this might verify that required tests have been run,
report any steps that haven’t been completed, etc.
Differences – Rich Text Support
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New ability to difference between Rich Text Edit fields
Differences – Object Differencing
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Added ‘Audit Log’ on an object’s History page
Differencing – Derivative Support
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Differencing Between Derivatives
Differencing – Link Support
Change Request – Document Definition
Change Request – Document Definition
Change Request – Document Definition
Formats Include:
CR Form – This is the same content as the CR Form cover page, but for use in a
section.
Change Items – This shows the items that are currently associated with the Change
Request (but may or may not have any differences).
Change Summary – This is a log of all changes that have been made as part of this
change request.
Preceding Change Requests – This section allows other CR documents to be identified
as change requests that this request is dependent on. This feature will be utilized to
construct interleaved changed requests.
Change Request – Process
Change Request – Types
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Non-Interleaved – A single change request is used to modify the
data within a project.
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Interleaved – Change requests can be interleaved together with the
order of application being defined by the interleave details.
Change Request –
Incorporation and Rejection
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Incorporation – Once the changes have been made and gone
through the appropriate workflow process, they can be
incorporated back into the project and the change request is closed.
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Rejection – The other option is a change request is rejected and
closed without applying any of the changes back to the project.
OLE Support
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Ability to embed non-Cockpit objects into Cockpit projects
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Double click to open
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Save the changes and
the image automatically
updates
Reuse and Linking –
Expanded Link Object Types
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Requirements, documents and groups could be linked in V6
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Tests,Voices, Risks and Mitigations can be linked in V7
Reuse and Linking – Copy Tracking
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After copying an object, the Traceability page shows the
originating point of the copied object
Works within a project or between projects
Reuse and Linking –
Ability to create derivatives of projects then show
differences between the two
Project A
Derivative 1
SHOW
DIFFERENCE
DERIVATIVE
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Derivative Project Creation
Reuse and Linking – Derivative Rerouting
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New ability to difference between derivatives
Project A
Derivative 1
Derivative 2
Customizing –
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New Filter and Group by Wizards
Create Custom Filters and Groups using a Wizard
Customizing – Project Level
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You now have the option to create customizations
directly from the Project
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Can create new definitions directly from the Details page of a
section by selecting ‘Create New’
Can edit current customizations from the Details page of a
section by selecting ‘Edit’
Customizing – Organization Level
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Customizations are organized by project, product line and organization
Fault Tree Analysis
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Fault Tree Analysis is now available for Risks
New Rich Text Editor
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EditLive!
Improved usability
Improved table editing
Handles clipboard copies better
Action Items – Import/Export With Project
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Action Items are now included as part of the project
Export
Action Items have versioning and auditing
Action Items can have their own workflow
Organizations – Creation and Definition
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Manage multiple projects for different products in one
location
Can organize into different
Organizations (folders) and
Product Lines (blue folders)
Projects can be created from
the Organizations page
as well
Organizations – Primary Assignments
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Can assign new projects to a Primary Organization
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Primary Organization is shown on the project home page
Organizations – Privilege Inheritance
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Organizations have their own members and groups
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Organization members automatically get view access to a
project
Organizations can have administrators who can create
and manage users within the organization
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