Configuring programme revision classifications
You use the Define Revision Classification page to enable the classification of programme revisions.
Classifying programme revisions helps you to identify the type of each revision that is created. The different classifications you use depends on how your organisation works with revisions. For example, you could set up a series of classifications including 'Progress update', 'Client change' and 'Scenario planning', to apply to your revisions.
If you enable programme revision classification, you can apply a classification to a revision each time one is created - ie each time a programme is checked in or submitted. You can also apply classifications to existing revisions - and change the classification of existing revisions, if required - using the Manage Revisions and Project Revisions pages. The type of each programme's latest revision is displayed in the lower part of the Project page. When you create new projects and programmes in Asta Vision by uploading existing Asta Powerproject projects and their baselines, you specify the classification to apply to the initial revision of each programme type.
To access the Define Revision Classification page from the Asta Vision Home page, click Admin then click Revision Classification.
Before you enable the classification of revisions, you should create a standard user-defined enumeration that contains a list of values that represent the classifications you want to apply to revisions. For example, you could create a user-defined enumeration called 'Revision Classification', containing a list of classifications including 'Progress update', 'Client change' and 'Scenario planning'. You may want to include a value of 'None', to enable you to record that a revision does not have a classification. If you have not already created a user-defined enumeration that contains a list of revision classifications, you can create one from this page by clicking New.
To enable the classification of revisions and define the different classifications that can be applied to revisions:
- On the Define Revision Classification page, select the Enabled check box, if it is not already enabled. Once you have selected this check box, the fields on the dialog become available.
- In the Name field, enter a name to apply to the field that will appear throughout Asta Vision and Asta Powerproject 4D, in which you will be able to specify a classification for programme revisions. This documentation assumes that the name 'Revision classification' has been applied to this field.
- In the Enumeration field, select the user-defined enumeration that you created earlier - the one that contains the list of values that represent the classifications you want to apply to revisions.
Click Edit to edit the user-defined enumeration, for example, to add more revision classifications, or to change the name of existing ones; if you have not already created a user-defined enumeration that contains a list of revision classifications, you can create one now by clicking New. - In the Default value field, select the value from the user-defined enumeration that you want to be applied to all new revisions by default. If you are enabling the classification of revisions for the first time, this value is also applied to all existing revisions that do not currently have a revision classification specified.
If you have included a 'None' value in the user-defined enumeration, you may want to select this as the default value. - Select the Default is invalid check box to force users to select a revision classification other than the default value each time they create a new revision of a programme, or clear the check box to allow them to leave the classification set to its default value.
If you have selected 'None' as the default value, you may want to select the Default is invalid check box, to force users to select a valid revision classification. - Click Save. You return to the Admin page.