Change Lifecycles and States

Learn about changing lifecycles and states in Vault.

Note: The ability to manage item states from the Change State dialog is only available in Vault 2015 R2. See Change an Item State for Vault 2015.

The Change State dialog changes the state of files, folders, items, and custom objects. Multiple instances of any of those entity types can be acted on at one time. However, the Change State dialog does not support more than one entity type at a time. For example, the user cannot change state on a file and folder at the same time.

Note: You can change the lifecycle for a file in the Vault stand-alone client or change the state of a file in the Vault add-in for Inventor and AutoCAD as well as the stand-alone client.