Understanding the Resolution of Dynamic Content when the Software Item is Promoted

When Software Items are promoted to a maturity state that implies that the content of the item should no longer be changing, such as promotion to the Frozen or Released state, the Connected Software app modifies the Software Item's Repository Version connection information. The updated connection information, instead of using a dynamic reference, uses a resolved version in the repository. This resolved repository version locks down the data content that the software item references such that it no longer changes.

See Also
Creating a Software Item
Software Item Page
In Other Guides
Changing Maturity

Before it does this modification, the app displays the resolved repository version for the software item. The user must confirm that the promotion should proceed.

After confirming the resolved repository version, the promotion process creates a tag in the repository and attaches it to the resolved repository version. The tag format is:

3DS_REL-<SoftwareItemVersion>-<YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS>-<#>

where:

3DS_REL
This constant indicates that the tag was defined and set by the Connected Software app and allows for easy searching and filtering for this system generated tag.
<SoftwareItemVersion>
The revision of the Software Item. The revision is specified when the software item is created and then incremented as appropriate.
<YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS>
Timestamp for the maturity operation in the format Year (four characters), Month (2 characters), Date (2 characters).Hour (2 characters), Minute (2 characters) Seconds (2 characters.)
#
Unique numeric identifier assigned by the system to guarantee uniqueness.

For example the tag could be something like 3DS_REL-V1.1-20200323.141818-0 for the Software Item with the revision V1.1 that was promoted into the Frozen state on March 18th at 14:18.18 UTC.