Understanding the Activation Process

After you have assembled a package, the package status remains at Assembly. While you define the package, it is inactive. You must activate the package to change the package status to Assembly-Definition Complete. An assembled package cannot be built until the status has been changed to Assembly-Definition Complete. The Assembly-Definition Complete status indicates that you are finished assembling the package and are ready to begin the build definition process.

You can change the package status at any time until you start the build definition process. That is, even after you have changed a package status to Assembly-Definition Complete, you can change the status back to In Definition if you need to revise the assembled package. When you are ready to define the build for the package, follow the steps described in Defining Package Builds.