Releases are the products of a team's work. The releases that you identify appear in the
list that is associated with the Found In field of a work item.
About this task
You can define releases in the project administration interface. You can also create a
release in the build results editor and associate the completed build with the release. For more
information, see Associating builds with releases.
Procedure
- To define releases in the web client, click the home menu in the Change and Configuration
Management section. Select All Projects from the list of
projects.
- Click Manage Project next to the Project area for which you want
to define releases.
- To view the Releases page, click
Releases.
- To add a release, click the Add Release icon .
- Enter a name and brief description for the release.
- Optional: Click the Iteration icon .
Select an iteration that you want to associate with the release.
Tip: To support linking work items to versioned artifacts that belong to configurations
in Configuration Management-enabled project areas in applications such as Requirements Management
and Quality Management, you must associate the release with an iteration. For more information, see
Enabling linking of work items to versioned artifacts.
- Optional: Select the Release Date to specify when
the release is expected to be complete and available.
Note: If you associate an iteration with the release, Release Date is
read-only. In this case, the release date is calculated based on the selected iteration.
- To limit visibility of the release to members of this project area team, select the
Hide Release Visibility from All but Members of the Team checkbox. Click
OK.
- To enable linking of work items to versioned artifacts, make sure that the releases are
associated with the global configurations. Release associations are now managed in the Global
Configuration Management (GCM) application. For more information, see Associating Releases with global
configurations.
- Optional: To add one or more Predecessors to the release, click the
Actions column icon and click
Predecessors. Select the appropriate values in the left pane and click
Add. Click Add all to add all the values in the left
pane as Predecessors to the current release. Click OK. Adding a predecessor
allows global configurations to inherit the associations from the previous releases.
- To edit an existing release, click the Actions column icon ,
then click Edit Release. You can make the required changes, click
OK.
- To remove an old release from the table, select the checkbox for the release in the
Actions column, then click Archive Selected. To view
archived releases, select Show Archived. Archived releases appear
unavailable. To restore an archived release, select the checkbox for the release and click
Unarchive Selected.
- To adjust the order in which releases appear in the Found In field
list of a work item, select a release in the table, click the Actions column
icon, and click Move Up or Move Down.
- When you finish defining releases, click Save to save your
changes.