The Life Cycle of an Object

When you're using version control in Author-it, each object goes through these life cycle states:

• Active: the current active version of an object. All new objects are created as active, and there can only be one active version of an object.
• Inactive: a proposed version of an object. When you create a new version of an object it will be proposed and inactive. There can be many inactive versions of an object.
• Redundant: an old version of an object. When an inactive version of an object becomes the active version, the current active version becomes redundant. There can be many redundant versions of an object. However, these versions are read-only.

The Life Cycle of an Object

1. An object is first created as Version 1, with a status of Active.
2. Later, you may create a new version of the object. The new version is always created with a version number that is one greater than the latest version, and with a status of Inactive.
3. When the new version becomes Active, then the old version becomes Redundant.

   Later on more new versions may be created. These will follow exactly the same path.

The following diagram shows the life cycle of an object.