Generating Issues and Change Actions

You can generate issues and change actions for markups.

This task shows you how to:

Before you begin: Open or create a review.
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About Issue and Change Action

Generate an Issue for a Review or a Highlight

You can generate an issue linked to a review or a highlight. For more information on the issue features, see Issues.

  1. From the Review section of the action bar, click Generate Issue .
  2. In the New Issue(s): Review/Highlight Title dialog box,
    1. In the Title box, change the title if required.

      By default, the review or the highlight title is used as the issue title.

    2. In the Description box, enter the required description.
    3. From the available priority options, select the required priority.
    4. Set the other parameters as per the requirement.
  3. Click Send.
    An issue is created.
    Note:

    If an issue is selected when opening Design Validation, the widget checks if a review or a highlight is attached to the issue.

    • If a review or a highlight is attached to the issue, the review is loaded in the widget.
    • If a review or a highlight is not attached to an issue,
      • If the issue is reported against a single object, it is loaded in the widget. A new review is created pointing to this object and attached the issue.
      • If the issue is reported against multiple objects or if no objects are selected under Reported against, no object is loaded in the widget.

Generate a Change Action for a Review or a Highlight

You can generate a change action linked to a review or a highlight. For more information on change action, see Work Under a Change Action

  1. From the Review section of the action bar, click Generate Change Action .
  2. In the Create Change Action dialog box,
    1. In the Type list, select one of the following:

      • Change Action
      • CMSSubSub_CA
      • CMSSub_CA

      By default, Change Action is selected.

    2. In the Title box, change the title if required.
    3. In the Description box, enter the required description.
    4. From the available priority options, select the required priority.
    5. Set the required due date.

    A change action is created. It is attached to the review or the selected highlight under the review under. The context for the review is also the context for the change action.

    Note: If the review or the highlight under consideration is attached to a single issue, the newly created change action is added under this issue's Resolved by area. A notification is displayed, indicating if the change request is attached to an issue or not.