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A release is a software delivery milestone, containing a collection of related or unrelated projects enabling new or updated features/capabilities.  

Select Releases from the menu to view and define your releases.

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last snapshot which was created for this release.

Column

Description

Name

The name of the release.

Status

The current status of the release.  Status are:

  • Not Started - the release is not yet started, and is not eligible to process snapshot
  • Started - the release is eligible to process snapshots
  • Suspended - the release has been paused, and is not currently eligible to process snapshots
  • Completed - the release has ended, and will never process snapshots again (cannot be resumed).

Start Date

The date and time in which the release was started.
End DateThe date and time in which the release was ended/completed.
PipelineThe pipeline which is used to process snapshots for the release.Latest
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To view the snapshots for the release, click on the snapshot Image Removed link in the Latest Snapshot column for the target release.  REMOVE INFO BELOW AFTER REVIEW, as its redundant.

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Status

The current status of the snapshot.  Status are:

  • Pending - the snapshot is being created, and has not yet been sent to the pipeline for execution.
  • Completed - the snapshot has been created, but not yet sent to the pipeline for execution.
  • Failed - the snapshot has failed during creation, and will not be sent to the pipeline for execution.
  • Failed to Initiate - the snapshot was created, but a failure occurred in transfer to the pipeline for execution.
  • Initiated - the snapshot was successfully sent to the pipeline for execution, which can be viewed in the release dashboard.
Note

Initiated is the final status of an snapshot, and its execution in the pipeline is tracked through execution in the dashboard.

Only one snapshot for a release is allowed to be Pending at a time.  If there is already a pending snapshot, you will see the following warning, and you must wait for it to complete or fail before created another snapshot.

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The user who created the snapshot.

Note

The user will be a system user if the snapshot was created via a project build associated to the release, as multiple user may have contributed to it.

 

To view the details of the projects in the snapshot, click on the link in the Snapshot Name column.

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The status of the individual project version within the snapshot.  Status are:

  • Pending - the project is has not yet been built for the snapshot. 
  • Submitted - the project is currently being built for the snapshot.
  • Completed - the project has been built successfully for the snapshot.
  • Failed - the project has failed to build.
  • Existing - the snapshot is utilizing a version from the previous snapshot.

Column

Description

Project Name

The name of the project within the snapshot.
Project VersionThe version of the project build within the snapshot.
Package NameThe package name for the project build within the snapshot.  Only applies to partial deployment projects.
Request All FilesWhether or not the package contains all the files for the project.  Only applies to partial deployment projects.

Status

Note

Once the all project versions in the snapshot are Completed or Existing, the snapshot will be Completed, and then sent for pipeline execution (Initiated).

Error MessageThe error message of the failed build, if the status is Failed.

Created On

The date and time in which the snapshot was created.Created By

The user who created the snapshot.

NoteThe user will be a system user if the snapshot was created via a project build associated to the release, as multiple user may have contributed to it.date and time the next snapshot will be created, based on Snapshot Schedule on release.Latest SnapshotThe last snapshot which was created for this release.

See topics below for more details on managing release.

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To view the snapshots for the release, click on the snapshot Image Added link in the Latest Snapshot column for the target release.