Stages Version 7.8

This version has reached end-of-life and is not updated anymore.

What would you like to do? New features that come with 7.8 or features with enhanced capabilities are marked in bold.

• Navigate through Stages
• Use the landing page
• Understand process content (elements, details, perspectives)
• 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
• 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
  • Use common element pools
• Generate process exports in PDF

• Manage tailoring
• Manage compliance
• Model and use a generic process
• Compare processes
• Get started in a new workspace
  • Import a process
  • Copy a process
• Import reference model
• Manage processes in multiple languages
• Create custom reference models
• Exporting a process for translation
• Importing a process translation
• Manage landing pages
• Manage workspace collections
• Manage process management participants
• Manage process release automations
• Model and manage process execution

• 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

• Understand the system requirements
• See the release notes
• Install system
• Upgrade from 7.7 to 7.8
• Upgrade Stages V6 to Stages V7
• Manage users, groups, and permissions
• Manage user and system licenses
• Manage workspaces, variables, and attributes
• Manage administrative jobs
• Diagnose problems
• Configure the Stages server
• Configure LDAP, SAML, and Kerberos Autologin
• Configure Process Feedback for following systems:
  • Jira
  • PTC Integrity (ILM)
  • Redmine
  • Rational Team Concert (now IBM Engineering Workflow Management)
  • Codebeamer
  • Link / Issue collector
• Configure CMS Integrations for following systems:
  • PTC Integrity
  • Sharepoint
  • Sharepoint Online
  • Subversion
• Configure Stages search
• Provide support and helpdesk information via language properties
• Database troubleshooting
• Reporting troubleshooting
• Upgrade Troubleshooting
• Visualizations troubleshooting

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