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Managing change and releases
Learn how to manage change and release in the product.
Using HCL Compass ALM
The application lifecycle management (ALM) packages and ALM schema provide out-of-the-box solutions for ensuring ALM best practices in your new or existing HCL Compass change management system.
Getting started for administrators
Administrators can define roles and processes for each project, as well as security policies to allow access to projects.
Configuring and using ALM
These topics describe how to set up and configure an ALM schema for users to follow an ALM work process.
Setting up

Setting up

About this task

Setting up an ALM work process for users includes:

Creating user accounts
Creating user groups
Creating security policies
Creating role labels and roles
Creating new projects

Before creating an ALM Project, you must first create several ALM records, including ALMAdmin, ALMSecurityPolicy, CategoryTypeLabel, ALMCategory, and ALMReleaseLabel record types. There are also related records for customizing your work process that cannot be created until after you create the Project record.