Configure a New Lifecycle Status

Use this topic to know how you can create and manage a new lifecycle status for entities.

As a product administrator, you can create and configure new lifecycle statuses in addition to the ones that are already shipped in the Launch application.

Create a Lifecycle Status

You can add a lifecycle states only between In design and Launched status. For example, you can add a testing phase, such as Unit testing or UAT testing in the testing phase.

Here's how you can create a new lifecycle status:

1. Go to Administration> Lifecycle Status and click Manage.

   The entity lifecycle status configuration version in active state appears.

2. Select Save as New Version from the Save drop-down list.

3. In the new version, click Create Status.

4. On the New Status page, enter the status name.

5. Select where you want to add the lifecycle status from the Create After drop-down list.

   A sequence number gets allocated to the status.

6. In the Other Information section, define the next User Action.

7. From the Error State drop-down list, select an error state for the status.

8. Enable the following options as required:

   1. Edit Initiative: Specify if the initiative can be edited.

   2. Edit Initiative Entities: Specify if the initiative entities can be edited.

   3. Requires Approval: Specify if the initiative requires approval.

   4. Allow References in Other Initiatives: Specify if the initiative can be referred to in other initiatives.

   5. Enable Publish: Specify if the initiative can be published.

9. Enter the destination.

10. Click Add Destination.

11. Click Create.

    Your new version is now active.

If you want to create more versions, select Save as New Version on the Lifecycle Status page. After a new version is activated, it's only applicable to the new entities that get created thereafter. Ensure that at any point of time, only one version must be in Active status.

After you have created a new lifecycle status, you can create revisions, where you can add multiple lifecycle statuses as required and activate the new lifecycle configuration. However, ensure that at any point of time only one lifecycle workflow is active in the application and all the associated entities transition according to the lifecycle statuses defined in lifecycle workflow, in active state.

You can create a new lifecycle configuration from an Active lifecycle configuration only. Any newly created lifecycle creation will be in the Pending status and will need an activation process. When you activate a new lifecycle configuration, the current one is inactivated. The initiatives following the older, inactive configuration lifecycle will continue in that process. It's only the newly created initiatives that will follow the new lifecycle status configuration.

Additionally, you can also define the conditions that control the lifecycle status transitions, such as:

• Edit initiative: Specify if you can edit initiative entities.

• Edit initiative entities: Specify if you can add or remove the initiative entities.

• Requires Approval: Specify whether approval is required for a lifecycle transition.

• Enable Publish: Specify if the status can be published to spoke systems.

• Allow References in Other Initiatives: Specify if the catalog entity reference can be made in another initiative.

You must also specify the destination and the next user action for every status that you create.