About analysis flows

A user who is assigned to the Administrator role can register a new analysis flow, edit its properties, set the initialization criteria , specify the assessment actions, and set the lifecycle state.

The registered analysis flows are listed in the Grouping View, and the deployed versions of each flow are listed as children of a flow.

Each analysis flow folder node can have child nodes that correspond to the deployment versions of the flow. Together with the properties and initialization criteria, the child nodes represent the entire deployment history of an analysis flow.

The lifecycle state determines which actions you can take on a specific analysis flow. The list of available states depend on the current state.

Submitted

Indicates that an analysis flow was registered, but the lifecycle state was not changed. In this state, you can modify version-specific properties, initialization criteria, and assessment actions, and you can change the lifecycle state.

Approved

Indicates that the analysis flow is properly configured for your business environment. Only flows that are in the Approved state can be triggered to run. A newly registered analysis flow can be approved.

You cannot edit an analysis flow that is approved, but you can create a new version of the flow by selecting the analysis flow and clicking Redraft. Redrafting a flow copies the core properties from the existing version to the new version, but the initialization criteria is not copied.

Rejected

Indicates that the analysis is not approved for use. A newly registered analysis flow can be rejected.

Suspended

Indicates that the analysis flow cannot be triggered to run.

Deprecated

Indicates that a specific flow is no longer used.

Although you cannot change the state of a flow after it is deprecated, you can redraft a new version. You can also delete a deprecated analysis flow when all of its child deployment versions are in the deprecated state.