Macro activity

Description: 

A macro-activity is a task that is not a leaf in the Work Breakdown Structure of a process.

A macro activity decomposes itself in macro activities and/or activities. The sequential dependencies between these children activities are formalized by an UML activity diagram. 

Edit workflow schema

Consult  the diagram editor manual

Associations (Parent and children: using item hierarchy links):

Allowed parents:  macro-activity, phase, workflow

Allowed Children: macro-activity, activity

Associations:  /

Attributes: 

• Description
  - Description: description of the macro-activity in the first language
  - Possible values: free text
   
• Description 2nd lang.
  - Description: description of the macro-activity in the second language
  - Possible values: free text
   
• Workflow: process schema edited using the  Diagram editor.
   

Attributes not managed by the GUI (automatically calculated)

• Phase
  - Description: phase to which the activity belong to
  - Possible values: should be a phase name of class PHASE
  - Comment: value propagated using item graph including shortcuts
   
• Discipline
  - Description: discipline to which the activity belong to
  - Possible values: should be a item name of class DISCIPLINE
  - Comment: value propagated using item hierarchy
   

Generated page: 

By default, a macro activity is fully generated ("Use workflow generated by diagram editor to fully generate page" is checked).
But if you check "Page is partially generated", then the process schema section should be manually edited using the html editor. The rest of the page is generated.

Generated elements:

- The process schema

- The list of the in work products of the macro activities (union of the in work products of all the children macro-activities/activities (n level depth) following shortcuts).
Note related to work product hierarchy: if sub work products are referenced in a macro-activity, only the associated root work product will be generated in the macro-activity - so to achieve a low level of detail)

- The list of the activities / macro-activities of the macro-activity

- The list of Quality criteria associated to the macro-activity children activities and macro-activities (n level depth)