Status Profile
Definition
Object consisting of freely-definable statuses and the transitions between them that you use to control and monitor the workflow according to which particular objects in cFolders (for example, documents) are processed.
Use
You can create a status profile and assign it to an object. You must be allowed to administer the object and read the status profile to assign the status profile to an object. The status profile defines the statuses that you can assign to the object and also the statuses to which you can change when the object has a particular status, that is, status transitions. In the status profile, you can also define whether the system is to execute an action, for example send a notification, for a particular status or status transaction.
Note
To create and delete status profiles, you must be assigned to the roles SAP_CFX_STATUS_PRF_CREATOR and SAP_CFX_STATUS_PRF_DELETOR respectively.
Restricting the Use of Status Profiles
It is possible to restrict the use of a status profile to an object type. You do this on the status profile detail screen. You must do this if you want to define that certain fields in a generic object cannot be changed in a particular status. For more information, see Status and Authorizations for Generic Objects .
Once the use of a status profile has been restricted to an object type, it can only be used by this object type. Objects of this type, however, do not have to use this status profile. When you assign a status profile to an object manually, you can select from the general status profiles that are available and the status profiles that have been specifically restricted to this object type.
Note
If a status profile is already being used, you cannot change this restriction. You must first revoke any assignments of the status profile. If you copy a status profile that is restricted to a particular object type, this assignment is also copied. You can, however, change it in the copy.