Status Management 
Use
The current status of a marketing element (or the combination of all statuses) determines which business transactions can be executed for a marketing element. The current processing status of a marketing element is defined by the status management. Statuses can be set by the system or by a user.
Features
A marketing element is not a static object. It has its own life cycle that begins with its creation and ends with its closure or cancellation. During this time, the marketing element is changed by different business transactions.
Each marketing element goes through three system statuses, one of which is always set.
· Created
· Released
· Closed or canceled
For
more information about the different system statuses, refer to 
System Status
Overview.
A change to a system status is carried out by a business transaction and is triggered by a function (for example, Release) on the Basic Data tab page.
In addition to the statuses specified above, other system statuses can be set, for example, Locked.
Activities
You can define user statuses if you want to control when particular business transactions are to be allowed. User statuses are enhancements to the existing system statuses.
To define user statuses, go to the IMG for Marketing Planning and Campaign Management and choose General Settings ® Define Status Profile for User Statuses.