Review Workflow

A Review Workflow is a reified execution of a state machine at the Review level. The Review Workflow addresses the following concepts which a user can perceive and interreact with:

• What is the current state of the Review (displayed as status)?

• What are other states the Review can transition from or to?

• What are the events, manual or automatic, which can trigger a state transition?

• What are the dependencies between a state of a Review and a state of an object owned by the Review (e.g. a Task List)?

• What are the dependencies between a state transition of a Review and a state transition of an object owned by the Review?

The execution of the state machine is always instigated by a user’s action. The cascade effects of the initial transition may be observed at other levels of the Workflows. For example, if a user (manually) sets the state (status) of the Review to Locked, all Tasks within the Review will also automatically transition to either Closed or Incomplete.