Quality Gate Management Overview

Quality gate management contains an overview screen with information in table form and several pushbuttons.

Features

The overview screen displays the following information about QGM scenarios. Note that you can personalize the information shown here to suit your requirements. To do so, choose the Open Settings Dialog pushbutton. You can also change the sequence of columns by using drag and drop.

Column	Meaning
Scenario	The name of the QGM scenario. If you click the scenario link, the system takes you to the scenario details screen on which you can create changes and transport requests.
Description	The description of the QGM scenario
Quality Manager	The business partner of the assigned quality manager who sets the first status for the quality gate. By clicking the link, you can navigate to the details for the business partner.
Quality Advisory Board	The business partner of the quality advisory board member who sets the second status for the quality gate. By clicking the link, you can navigate to the details for the business partner.
Phase	The current phase of the scenario
Next Gate	The date on which the next quality gate is due to start. By clicking the link, you can display detailed information about the quality gate. For more information, see Working with Quality Gates.
Downgrade Protection	An indicator that specifies whether the downgrade protection check has been carried out, as well as the number of conflicts identified for the scenario. You can click the link to open the downgrade protection dialog box.
Actions	A dropdown list that enables you to perform follow-up actions for the scenario. For example: Set Up Cycle: Enables you to create a new change cycle and edit active change cycles. For more information, see Creating and Editing Cycles. Set Up Scenario: Enables you to assign deadlines to quality gates and assign quality gates to systems. For more information, see Setting Up Quality Gates and Assigning Phases. Configuration Check: Enables you to check whether your scenario is configured correctly. For more information, see Checking the Quality Gate Configuration. Change CTS Status Switch: Enables you to manually override the standard behavior of the CTS status switch. For more information, see Changing the CTS Status Switch. Display Application Log: Enables you to view a history of transport-related activities. For more information, see Application Log. Display Change Log: Enables you to view a history of status changes. For more information, see Change Log.

The QGM overview screen also provides the following pushbuttons:

New Scenario: Here, you can define a new QGM scenario. A guided procedure is available in which you can specify the quality manager, quality advisory board, quality gates, and transport landscape.
Export: Here, you can export the data shown in the overview table to Microsoft Excel.

The lower part of the QGM overview screen contains the calendar view and landscape view for each of the scenarios that you have selected in the table:

In the calendar view, the quality gates and phases are displayed linearly. Phases that have been passed successfully are shown in green, the current phase is shown in orange, and phases that are yet to be completed are shown in gray. Similarly, quality gates that have been passed are shown as green icons, quality gates that are in process are shown as yellow icons, and quality gates are still initial are shown as gray icons. Any quality gates that are overdue and that have not been passed are displayed as red icons.
You can view up to 10 scenarios at a time in the calendar view. For more information, see Calendar View.
In the landscape view, you can view the system landscape and the quality gates between each of the systems. You can also branch to the quality gate details and manage transports from here. For more information, see Landscape View.