Projects, Business Tasks and Transport Forms

Within ActiveControl there are 3 main data concepts:

• Projects
• Business Tasks
• Transport forms

The relationship between the three concepts is illustrated below:

The typical usage is as follows:

• Project: Used to group tasks together for business releases and projects. For support there could be general support projects.

• Business Task: Used to represent Business Requirements, such as CRs, Support tickets, Project Requirements and test defects.

• Transport Form: Will be created for every SAP transport to be released and moved through the landscapes

Notes:

• ActiveControl does not affect the creation of transports in any of the development systems so this can continue as normal.

• When a transport needs to be deployed to the next system it must be created in ActiveControl as a Transport Form and allocated to a Business Task that represents the change request or support ticket that it relates to. Most customers have their Developers/Functional team populate the Transport Form and link it to the appropriate Business Task.

• The release of the transport can be done either by the Developer/Functional team – or automatically from within ActiveControl. Nowadays, most customers prefer the latter to ensure a transport does not get released prematurely.

• Nowadays, many customers create Projects for each of their Daily, Weekly or Monthly releases, as a way of bundling the changes together that are being delivered as part of that release.