Stages Version 26.1

What would you like to do? New features that come with 26.1, features with enhanced capabilities, or newly added documentation topics are marked in bold.

Version 26.1 is currently only available on Stages Managed Service instances. On-premise usage will be made available later this year.

• Navigate through Stages
• Use the landing page
• Understand process content (elements, details, perspectives)
• Use the AI chat assistant
• Search process content
• Switch between multiple versions
• Work with files
• See the process release information
• Participate in a process release as reviewer or approver
• How to change your password
• Quick link videos

• Model a process
  • Use copy, move and sort
  • Use work product states
  • Use teams with roles
  • Use description templates
  • Work with tables
  • Add clickable images to process descriptions
  • Create and edit descriptions
  • Reuse description texts
• Create process content automatically via Stages AI
• Add templates, checklists, and other guidance material
• Check process consistency
• Manage process interfaces
• Manage process versions
• Initiate a process release
• Use process modules
  • Define a process architecture
  • Overwrite process elements
  • Use common element pools
• Generate process exports in PDF
• Manage external links to process content

• Manage tailoring
• Manage compliance
• Manage the AI chat assistant
• Model and use a generic process
• Compare processes
• Get started in a new workspace
  • Import a process
  • Copy a process
• Manage processes in multiple languages
• Install new reference models
• Create custom reference models
• Manage landing pages
• Manage workspace collections
• Manage process management participants
• Manage process release automations
• Model and manage process execution
• Archive process versions
• Cleanup process versions
• How to handle elements in LOST+FOUND

• Instantiate a process in a workspace
  • Assign user to a role
• Tailor a process
• Manage file access
• Use reports
• Import processes into MS Project
• How to freeze phases

• Use standard reports
• Import new reports
• Use scripting
• Use the Open REST API
• How to use the MCP Server (Beta)

• Understand the system requirements
• See the release notes
• Install system
• Upgrade from 7.12 to 26.1
• Upgrade Stages V6 to Stages V7
• Manage users, groups, and permissions
  • SCIM provisioning
  • Two factor authentication (2FA)
  • API Tokens
• Manage workspaces, variables, and attributes
• Manage administrative jobs
• Schedule and manage maintenance windows
• Diagnose problems
• Configure the Stages server
• Configure SAML
• Configure Process Feedback for following systems:
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow (not yet included - planned to be included in a future release)
  • PTC Integrity (ILM) (not yet included - planned to be included in a future release)
  • Rational Team Concert (now IBM Engineering Workflow Management)
  • Codebeamer (not yet included - planned to be included in a future release)
  • Link / Issue collector
• Configure CMS Integrations for following systems:
  • PTC Integrity (not yet included - planned to be included in a future release)
  • Sharepoint Online
  • Subversion
  • Codebeamer (not yet included - planned to be included in a future release)
  • Confluence Cloud
• Configure multi language Stages search
• Configure additional languages
• Provide support and helpdesk information via language properties
• Database troubleshooting
• Upgrade Troubleshooting
• Visualizations troubleshooting
• Process Import troubleshooting

• Processes, Process Elements, and Associations
• Process Module
• Process Interface
• Reference Model
• Metamodel
• Workspace
• Working Version
• Valid Version