How to set up an item/Allergen Lifecycle
An allergen-lifecycle for Food being shipped together with the official release package and this lifecycle is also present and enabled in the W1 demo-database that is provided.
The lifecycle is based on the item table and sets a status on the item. This functionality is not the same as the Item Lifecycle Management solution that STAEDEAN provides to it's customers, but it is a seperate solution, solely for allergen management at the moment.
Lifecycles can be created and imported from the menu-item in the Solution Center (see this Link).
Using the example-lifecycle that is part of the release package, when a lifecycle is enabled and it is initialized for a specific item, any manual change in the allergen set of that item will lead to the lifecycle-state going from "01-READY" to "02-APPROVE". This state-change will be associated with an approval workflow that requests approval from a specific user.
The approval or refusal of the request will automatically lead to a state-change of the item. When approval is given, the state of the item changes to 03-LABEL, meaning that labelling-information for the item and it's rollup items affected needs to be updated. When this update is excuted, the state of the item can be changed manually from 03-LABEL to 01-READY. When approval is rejected, not only will the status of the lifecycle on the item move to 04-REJECTED, but also the allergen-entry for this item will be deleted. The addition and deletion will be visible and can be monitored through the allergen history, so at all times will a trace be possible to the person that has approved or rejected an allergen change.
See also
How to initiate a Allergen approval Workflow