Merge branches customization

You can enhance the merge process for your development team in various ways to comply with your organization's policies and procedures. You can:

• Add pre-processing behavior
• Add post-processing behavior
• Customize validation on the inputs in the Merge Branches wizard user interface

For pre- and post-processing behavior, the flow rule that governs this process has two extension points (as subprocesses) at which you can add custom steps: pyPreMergeInstances and pyPostMergeInstances. By saving a copy of the standard rule and customizing your copy, you can override the generic behavior with custom behavior; for example:

• Pre-processing: By customizing a copy of pyPreMergeInstances, you can provide processing that occurs before the wizard starts — such as verifying that a person's operator ID is performing the merge instead of a generic account.
• Post-processing: By customizing a copy of pyPostMergeInstances, you can provide processing that occurs after the wizard completes — such as sending an email notifying the team about the status of the merge.

For customized validation on inputs into the wizard user interface, override the extension point activity pyValidateMergeOptions.

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