Workflows provide better control for critical tasks or requirements where the change has strong impact on resources or deliverables. Codebeamer trackers integrate a simple and flexible process engine to model business process workflows.

Trackers can be used with or without workflows. Trackers can inherit a workflow from other trackers or use their own workflows. Workflows can be customized. See State Transitions.

If you have parent/child hierarchies of configuration items or issues, you can now define dependencies between parent field values and the appropriate child field values recursively. If, for example, you wish to ensure that a parent issue is not closed until all the child-issues (children) are closed, then this dependency can be managed using one of the distribution rules defined in the following linked document. Similarly if you wish to define the parent issue's spent hours as the sum of the children's spent hours you can define this aggregation rule, too. For more information, please see Dynamic pick-list fields .