Projects
An SDL Contenta project is a container that holds the data objects that are to be modified.
A ContentRoutingProject and standard Project are objects that are unique from other objects in the database. You use projects to group data that is to be written or modified and processed through an approved workflow. Data in the project is isolated from stable data and the current authorized version of your documents until work is complete, approved, and posted. To maintain the integrity of your documents, modifications to the data under revision in a project does not affect the data that is currently aproved and in your documents, until the modifications are formally approved and posted.
- creates the project and assigns a workflow template to it
- modifies the project workflow if necessary
- identifies and assigns appropriate roles to the tasks in the workflow
- assigns users to the roles and tasks in the workflow
- populates the project with objects that need to be authored or revised
- forwards the project to the next task in the workflow
- posts the project data back to the configuration when the work is complete