Milestone without Dependency
There can be intermediate milestones defined in a process component which does not have any dependencies. However, milestones in another process component may depend on any of these milestones.
The following figure shows the Milestone without any dependency:
These types of dependencies help manage the complex order fulfillment process. For instance, start activating the broadband service once the broadband device fulfillment reaches a certain status, say, INSTALLED.
The product model schema has been updated to support the milestones and dependency definitions. See TIBCO® Fulfillment Catalog Product Catalog Guide for newly added repository and relationships to support the intermediate milestones dependencies.