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Life Cycle Tab

Document life cycle is a sequence of statuses (stages) of a document. On this tab, you can configure life cycle statuses and transitions between them.
To display the Life Cycle tab, go to the document type page - Description tab - Advanced Settings unit, and check the Use this lifecycle for this type of documents box.
Fig. 1. Life Cycle tab

Status

Life cycle statuses are stored in the Document Life Cycle Status object. You can find it in the Documents folder of the Objects section (fig. 2).
Fig. 2. Object section. Document Life Cycle Status object
Actions with statuses:
Create
There are two ways to create a new life cycle status:
Fig. 3. Add Status button
In the opened dialog box (fig. 4), click and enter the status name in the Name field. You can add a description of the status. To complete creating a status click OK (fig. 5).
To select an existing status, click (fig. 4). The drop down list will display the statuses from the Document life cycle status object. The Used Statuses folder shows only the statuses used in this document type; the Unused Statuses contains all the others.
Click (fig. 4) to clear the status field.
Fig. 4. Dialog box for selecting the document status
Fig. 5. Window for creating a document status
Edit a life cycle status
There are several ways to edit a life cycle status:
Delete
You can delete life cycle statuses. However, the document type must have at least one life cycle status.
When you delete a life cycle status, it remains for those documents, where it has already been set but you cannot set the deleted status for other documents of this type.
There are several ways to delete a life cycle status:

Transition

Transitions define the sequence of changing the document life cycle statuses.
Actions with transitions
Create
To create a new transition:
Fig. 13. Window for creating a transition
Edit
To edit a transition:
Delete
To delete a transition:
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