2.11 Lifecycles
Documents in an enterprise progress through a well-defined authoring-review process.
Let us take an example of such a process:
1. A document is created by an author. At this initial stage of creation, the document is in the draft state.
2. The document is being worked upon by the author and hence falls under the 'Work in progress' state.
3. When it is sent out for the first round of review, it might be under the 'In Review' state
4. And when the document is finally approved, it falls under the 'Approved' state (say).
Content Server provides lifecycles to automate these various stages in the life of a document.
Simply speaking, a lifecycle is a sequence of states that describe the various stages in the life of an object. Documentum stores lifecycles in the form of a policy object (dm_policy) in the Docbase.
Figure 2.13 shows a sample lifecycle as it is seen in Documentum Application Builder.
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We will delve deeper into lifecycles in Chapter 12.
