About Work Management Items (WMI)

Work Management Items (WMIs) represent the work that should be completed when the Implementation Package is implemented. Throughout the documentation, we refer to them as work management items (WMIs) because they can belong to any family. Before you can create work items in a particular family, the corresponding Work Management Item Definition records and Work Management Item Child Definition records must exist. Each Work Management Item Definition record contains a family ID, which identifies a family to which work items can belong.

GE Digital APM delivers a baseline set of Work Management Item Definition and Work Management Item Child Definitions to allow you to create work items in certain baseline families. For example, GE Digital APM delivers a Work Management Item Definition whose family ID is Maintenance Item, which allows you to add Maintenance Items to an Implementation Package. You can also create your own Work Management Item Definitions so that you can create work items in other families.

After you add a work item to an Implementation Package, the work item is linked either directly or indirectly to the root Implementation Package record. Work items can also be linked to one another and arranged hierarchically in the tree on the Packaging <Package ID> page according to these relationships. Beyond defining the family of the work items that you want to create, you will, therefore, need to define where in this hierarchy they can exist. To do so, you will need to:

Configure the appropriate relationship definitions via the Configuration Manager.

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Create the appropriate Work Management Item Definition and Work Management Item Child Definition records via the GE Digital APM Framework.

On the Packaging <Package ID> page, the options that appear in the tree and on the Packaging Tasks menu are dynamic, meaning that they change based upon the current selection in the tree. The options that are available are based upon the way in which you have configured the hierarchy.

Throughout this documentation, we describe the hierarchy that appears on the Packaging <Package ID> page using the terms predecessor record and successor record. In this context:

A predecessor is any work item to which another work item can be linked.
A successor is any work item that is linked to a predecessor work item.