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title: "Lifecycle management"
slug: "lifecycle-management"
updated: 2022-04-14T11:13:28Z
published: 2022-04-14T11:13:28Z
canonical: "help.sovelia.com/lifecycle-management"
---

> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://help.sovelia.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Lifecycle management

## Promoting and demoting

You can manage the lifecycle on the object card/sheet or in the grid view.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b4de53ee-d7ea-47b4-9a73-8323e3c9c14c/Images/Documentation/managing-objects-image-nt22qpd9.png)

The grid view supports the promotion/demotion of multiple objects.

![](https://cdn.document360.io/b4de53ee-d7ea-47b4-9a73-8323e3c9c14c/Images/Documentation/managing-objects-image-xi4llmuw.png)

## Lifecycle rules

When changing the status of an object, Sovelia checks that lifecycle rules are followed.

For example, when an item is approved to *In production* state all child items must be at the same state.

## Automatic approvals

Often automatic approvals are setup to approve child objects automatically with the parent object. This usually applies to ***Product documents*** and ***drawings*** linked to items.