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Promoting and Demoting Members
When Integrity Lifecycle Manager is used on its own, your administrator can define states that members move through as part of the development process.
A state is free-form text used to classify the condition of a revision in a member history. For example, a document could initially have a state of “Draft”. As work progresses it might be changed to “Review” and eventually “Complete”. If no state is assigned to a revision, a default value of “Exp” (for “Experimental” in English) is used.
To control member workflow more effectively, PTC recommends you use software configuration management with process and workflow management.
Promoting Members
Demoting Members