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Sub-states?

Question asked by Adam Meyer on Jan 16, 2009
Latest reply on Jan 16, 2009 by 1-YJ1IM

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Is it possible to have sub-states?

For example, at my company our designs go through three major states (pre-production, production development, and production). Within each major state, would be minor states such as work in progress, under review, and approved.

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Adam

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Jeff Sweeney Jan 16, 2009 1:20 PM
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No, states are states.
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- Corey Hinman @ Jeff Sweeney on Jan 16, 2009 2:56 PM
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  Your states can be named whatever you want..so for instance...
  
  Production.
  Production-Change Pending
  Production-Under Review
  etc....
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- Calvin Nelson @ Jeff Sweeney on Jan 16, 2009 3:04 PM
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  However, you can have as many states and loops in a workflow as you need. Our company has a tollgate development process, also. So, I have a release state for each phase of the process with jumps for those projects where it has been determined not all the tollgates are necessary.
  We don't have approvals at every level, but that wouldn't be hard to add.
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1-YJ1IM Jan 16, 2009 3:00 PM
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You really do not need sub-states. You can create three workflows; pre-production, production development, and production. :Link them together so that when it finishes pre-production you can move it into production developement workflow and then from there to production.
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Adam Meyer Jan 16, 2009 3:18 PM
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The reason I'm asking is because I think it would be nice to be able to search for all documents that are in a certain state, within another state (i.e. all approved production drawings).

I just realized that the name of the workflow is displayed in the preview and version tabs. This might do what I want. Is there a way to search only within a given workflow or show the workflow name in the column view?

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Adam
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- 1-YJ1IM @ Adam Meyer on Jan 16, 2009 7:01 PM
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  Yes you can. You can add a combobox to the search form. Set it's Items to "Workflow list" and Variable mame to "Workflow - Workflow Name".
  
  I just tested and the list of states is not for only states in selected workflow.
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