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A Configuration Area represents a specific project or program within a Space. Each Configuration Area can encompass multiple components Units and serves as a container for organizing related configuration management activities. Configuration Areas provide a structured approach to managing configurations at a higher level of granularity.
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A Configuration, also referred to as an Internal Work Product, represents a versioned instance of a product Unit within Smartfacts CDCM. Each product can have multiple versions, and each version is represented as a Configuration. Additionally, configurations can contain other configurations as sub-configurations, enabling the nesting of versioned components to structure complex products effectively across multiple levels.
5. Configuration Item (External Work Product)
A Configuration Item is a unit of configuration management within Smartfacts CDCM. Configuration Items are associated with configurations and can represent either Internal Work Products or External Work Products.
Internal Work Products: These are configurations as described under the concept of "Configuration." They represent versioned instances of products Units managed within Smartfacts CDCM.
External Work Products: These are references to content generated by a specific version of a model or document maintained in external authoring tools, such as requirements management tools, test case management tools, systems architecture modeling tools, CAD tools, document management systems, or any other repository of versioned content.
Configuration Items provide the flexibility to manage both internally created configurations Configurations and references to externally generated versioned content within the CDCM tool.
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