10.5. Enabling Lifecycles

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## 10.5. Enabling Lifecycles

Lifecycles can be defined as “automatically enabled” in a lifecycle template XML file or “not enabled”. If automatically enabled, whenever an object of a type associated with the lifecycle is uploaded to or created in EKM, it will automatically be assigned the lifecycle template and its stage will be set to the starting stage of the lifecycle. Alternatively, if a lifecycle is “not enabled,” then it must be enabled from within EKM by a user who has lifecycle permission for the object.

If a lifecycle has been defined for a parent object but not for a child object, then the child will automatically inherit its parent’s lifecycle.

Important: Once a lifecycle is enabled, the lifecycle permission policies that are defined in the lifecycle XML file are applied to the object, and will override any other permissions that were previously set for the object using Edit > Permissions. The Enable Lifecycle dialog box contains this reminder, as shown in Figure 10.7: Enable Lifecycle Dialog Box. Note that lifecycle permission policies can be subsequently overridden by anyone with `lifecycle` permission for the object.

To enable a lifecycle:

1. Select the object, then select (Edit) > Lifecycle > Enable. This will open the Enable Lifecycle dialog box.

   Figure 10.7: Enable Lifecycle Dialog Box

2. Click OK.

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