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Life Cycle Template Administration Utility
You can use the Life Cycle Template Administration utility to manage existing life cycles and create new ones. For more information on life cycles, including conceptual information, see Life Cycle Management.
The Life Cycle Template Administration utility is available from the Utilities page under Site, Organizations, Products, and Libraries:
Table Columns
The Life Cycle Templates table displays the existing life cycles and the following information about each life cycle:
Type
Identifies whether the life cycle is basic or advanced:
• —Basic
• —Advanced
Basic life cycles include a life cycle template, phases, gates, and transitions. Advanced life cycles also define access permissions, and can be mapped to team roles and workflow processes. For more information, see Basic and Advanced Life Cycles.
Checked Out Status
A status indicator appears next to templates that are reserved for editing.
Name
The life cycle name.
View Information
Opens the View Life Cycle window. Click on the life cycle phase diagram to view more information about each phase. For more information, see Life Cycle Phases.
Visibility
Indicates whether the template is visible in the user interface. If visible, the template appears in any action window that might allow a user to select a life cycle template. For more information, see Filtering the Visibility of Templates.
Enabled
If selected, the life cycle is available for use. A disabled template cannot be assigned to a life cycle-managed object.
Available for Routing
Select this option to include the life cycle in the Route action that is available for packages and from Windchill ProjectLink contexts.
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This option is only available for advanced life cycles.
Context
The highest level context in which the life cycle template resides.
Several additional table columns are available from the Columns list:
• Actions
• Last Modified
• Checked Out By
• Comments
Table Actions
The following actions are available from the Life Cycle Templates table. The visibility of actions depends on your permissions and the context from which you launch the utility.
Actions are available from the table toolbar, the table Actions menu, and from the right-click actions menu in table rows:
Create a new life cycle template.
Delete
Delete the selected template.
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If an instance of the life cycle is in use by a life cycle-managed object, or it is checked out, it cannot be deleted.
Check Out
Reserve a life cycle template for editing.
Check In
Check in a life cycle template and create a new iteration.
Undo Checkout
Undo your checkout. All modifications are abandoned.
Import previously exported templates.
Export templates to a JAR or ZIP file.
Hide Template
Hide the template in any action window that would allow a user to select the life cycle template.
For more information, see Filtering the Visibility of Templates.
Show Template
Show the template in any action window that would allow a user to select the life cycle template. The template must also be enabled.
For more information, see Filtering the Visibility of Templates.
Open the template in the life cycle template editor.
Open a read-only version in the life cycle template editor.
Rename
Rename a template.
The template must be checked in before you can rename it.
Move the selected template to a higher level in the context hierarchy.
Save As
Save a copy of the life cycle template under a new name.
Delete Latest Iteration
Delete the latest iteration of the template.
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If the latest iteration of a life cycle is currently being used by a business object, it cannot be deleted.
Open a new window displaying information about previous versions of the template.