Document Lifecycle Propagate Operation

When conducting the Check In or Release Lifecycle operations on all objects you can extend the operation by propagating it to include all the selected object's children. This may be necessary when, for example, a drawing is dependent on an assembly that has children and you want to maintain the revision status for the entire assembly. If you do not perform a Propagate operation on the Lifecycle operation, SmarTeam - Web Editor may prevent the operation from being executed for the assembly since a system rule specifies that a child may not have a lower Lifecycle status than its parent.

Note: This option can only be selected if it has been set by the System Administrator.

To propagate an assembly:

  1. Select the relevant assembly
  2. From the Actions combo box, select Propagate Operation.
  3. The Assembly and all its children will be checked out of the vault (for example) and can then be modified.