About Products

Products are created and managed in the context of a product line. Product lines are created and managed in the context of your company. By default, Product Line Management supports three types of products: hardware, software and service.

Related Topics
Products Page
Creating a Product
Cloning a Product by Copy Selected

Products can have any number (0 to N) of features linked to them. Products are identified with revisions and versions. Products are maintained as product masters and are related to a product line.

The first time a product revision is created, a new product master is also created. The first instance of a product can only be a product revision. You can then decide whether to revise the current product revision or create a product version. When a product is revised or versioned, all the features directly linked to revision N are, by default, also linked to revision N+1 (relationship replication). Subfeatures of the first level are unaffected by this operation. During the product revision or version process, you can replicate features from the previous revision or select from a list of existing versions.

Note: Only users with a Product Manager or System Engineer role can replace a GBOM for a released product or released feature.