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The Statuses (Content -> Workflow -> Statuses) page displays all the possible statuses of static documents and the information block elements. Statuses are used to break the document work chain into several stages, for each of which a single user or a group of users is responsible. Status #1 is the final status in the workflow chain; it is reserved and cannot be deleted. When the document obtains the final status, all the changes take effect, and the document gets published.

Filter

This form is used to find the document statuses matching the specified criteria.

Parameter	Description
ID	The status ID (can be separated with a comma).
Active	Specifies to display only active or inactive statuses.
Title	The status title.
Description	Finds statuses by their description.
Documents	Specifies to display statuses by the number of documents currently in these statuses. Number of documents can be specified both as a range and as a single number.

To enable the filter, click Set filter; to disable it, click Cancel.

Context bar

Button	Description
Add	Opens a form in which you can create a new status.
Excel	Exports data from the table to the MS Excel format.

List of statuses

Column	Description
Checkbox column	Selects statuses to which the desired actions or rules are to be applied.
Action menu	Actions on the status: Modify - edits the status parameters; Delete - deletes the status. The final status (with the ID of 1) cannot be deleted.
ID	The status ID.
Modified	The date the status was last modified.
Active	Indicates the status is active. Inactive status cannot be applied to documents.
Sort.	The status sort weight. Defines the position of the status in lists.
Title	The status title.
Documents	Displays the number of documents currently in this status. Link containing the number of documents opens the list of documents in this status.

Example

Assume there is a group of authors making articles for the site. There is also an editor-in-chief who is in charge of checking and publishing articles. To organize the workflow according to this scheme, you have to create 2 additional statuses:

Draft;
Ready (for publication).

Authors should be permitted to edit documents in the Draft status and assign the Ready status to them. The editor-in-chief should be entitled to edit these documents in the Ready status, as well as assign them the Draft status (to be revised) and status #1, Published (i.e. publish these documents).

The use of e-mail message templates allows to create and send an e-mail notification to a user automatically each time when the document status changes. For example, messages about assigning documents the Ready status can be sent to the editor-in-chief.

To have an e-mail address inserted into a message automatically, following variables are to be used in the TO field of the e-mail template:

An e-mail message is sent to the address of the document author (#ENTERED_BY_EMAIL#).
An e-mail message is sent to all addresses of workflow administrators (#ADMIN_EMAIL#).
An e-mail message is sent to all participating in editing the document in its current status (#BCC#).

In case the Notify all users... checkbox is selected in the settings of the current status, an e-mail message will be sent to all members of groups with the permission to edit the document in its current status (#BCC#).