Type of an environment used by the project to deploy the application or the solution.
- ID
environment-type- Suite
- Parent
- Documentation Type
- Categories
- Tags
- Since
- 3.0
Grouping environments by type, the environment type helps to categorize physical environments. This is especially useful if there is more than one environment instance of a given type. While environments are project specific, environment types are more general and can be referred to by other documents that may be exported to third parties.
The environment type is an abstraction of concrete environments.
Properties
The document type environment type provides the following properties:
Please note that only information about specific properties is provided here. Common document property used by all document types are documented by Document Properties.
Sections
Description
A more detailed description of the artifact type than already provided in the short description.
This helps authors to select the appropriate type for their environments.
Related Indices
Lists space index documents related to this type.
Every space index that references this type by the property Environment Type Constraint is listed in this section. This makes it easier for readers to navigate to related information by browsing.
This section is available since version 11.1.
Environments of this Type
An overview over environments of this type.
Notes
These are internal notes that are usually not exported and only visible to team members with write access.
But this is not a safe place to store sensible information. It is just a convenience for the reader to not be bothered with notes stored here for the authors for later use. The security level is about suppressing the representation by a CSS style. Therefore consider this as a convenience for the reader, not as a security tool.
The text of notes sections is also indexed.
References
For a document the references section contains pointers to resources that prove the statements of the document.
Often these proofs are not easily distinguishable from further information. In this case you may want to skip the reference section in favour for the resource list.
For further information please refer to References and Resources.
Resources
The resources section provides references to further information to the topic of the document.
This may be information on the internet provided by the resource or information in the team's information systems. Anything the reader of the resource might want to know, may be listed here.
For further information please refer to References and Resources.
Related Doctypes
Here is a list of related doctypes to document system environments.
- Artifact
- Document requirements you impose on artifacts. Artifacts are created by processes defined and used by the team. This includes assemblies created by the build process, source code artifacts or reports.
- Artifact Type
- Artifact types categorize artifacts.
- Data Type Type
- Data type types categorize data types.
- Environment
- Document logical or physical groups of nodes.
- Node
- Nodes are part of environments where artifacts are deployed to.