Creating and personalizing Change Management Sequential Activities

If you have configured Parallel Activities as described in the previous recipe, all activities will be set to the status In Progress at the same time. If you need to serialize activities inside of a Parallel Activity container you must use Sequential Activities.

This recipe will show you how to work with Sequential Activities inside of a Parallel Activity container.

Getting ready

To create Sequential Activities in a Change Request Template open the SCSM 2012 console and navigate to Library | Templates. Open the Change Request Service Pack Installation Template that we created in an earlier recipe.

How to do it...

Follow these steps to create a Sequential Activity:

  1. Click on the Activities ...

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