The Knowledge Management component provides a simple to use Workflow process which is quite straight forward by creating a simple task list - the completion of each task allows to assign a document status.
By default CA SDM differentiates between these document statuses:
- "Draft" (which is the initial version of a document, but "could" also be utilized for any subsequent evaluation or review tasks),
- "Published" (for documents which are available to End Users / Customers and
- "Retired" (for documents which have passed their expiration date and are no longer relevant).
These statuses can be adapted by an easy to use configuration mechanism...
The process templates and their corresponding task lists are defined in the "Administration-Tab under "Knowledge"."Approval Process Manager":"Approval Process Template":
The "Build In" Knowledge Workflow (out of the box) is a simple one step "Create Document" Task which I have extended in the example above with a simple "... Approval" and "Publish" task, this example does not differentiate between statuses within the last two tasks (which is something I would consider to change to make sure that the current status always reflects the workflow status.
However, the "Junctions" are defined by assigning the Rework and Unretire Task (indicated by an "x" in the example above. So whenever a User with the corresponding privileges sends a Knowledge Document to "Rework" or "Retired", the KD will be set into the "Create Document / Draft" status...
The Approval Process Template utilized can be bound to the KD template, so a Knowledge Document on SAP may follow a different process than a KD for MS Office related Knowledge...