Workflow status

Workflow status

There are three status levels during a workflow; Draft, Published or Expired. Only published documents are available on the rendered site. This status is not linked to any stage, but is determined by actions. For example, a Publish action will change the status of a document from Draft to Published.

Status indicators

This indicates an item is not participating in a workflow.

This indicates that an item's status is Draft.

This indicates that an item's status is Published.

This indicates that an item's status is Expired.

The "lock" symbol indicates that the item has been locked for editing.

If a workflow stage contains a Publish or Expire action and the Published or Expired date has not yet been reached, the next status will appear as a small button. In this case, an item status is currently Draft, but is scheduled to be Published.

When progressing through a workflow, the status of an item can only change in a linear fashion:

Draft to Published to Expired.
Published to Expired.
Draft to Published.

Using workflows and access to workflow items
Users do not require access to a workflow's actions or stages to participate in a workflow. Actions are performed using system access and are not determined by the access of the user who approved/rejected the item.

When progressing through a workflow, you cannot change an item's status from:

Expired to Draft or Published.
Published to Draft.

The process of publishing and expiring items

When the status of an item changes to published or expired, this does not mean that the item will have become published or expired in the rendered site. A status of published or expired means that the process of publishing or expiring an item has begun.
The actual time a published item will appear on a Web site, or the time an expired item is removed from a Web site, also depends on:

how long it takes to syndicate updates to the delivery server
how long it takes for the current cache to expire

Parent topic:
Manage items in a workflow

	This indicates an item is not participating in a workflow.
	This indicates that an item's status is Draft.
	This indicates that an item's status is Published.
	This indicates that an item's status is Expired.
	The "lock" symbol indicates that the item has been locked for editing.
	If a workflow stage contains a Publish or Expire action and the Published or Expired date has not yet been reached, the next status will appear as a small button. In this case, an item status is currently Draft, but is scheduled to be Published.