Plan your procedures as a group of senior staff at the organisation. It is good to consider what status an object or activity should have from the moment it enters the database to when it leaves the organisation.
Template for planning
This template may be a useful tool when planning how your Procedural Statuses will interact with each other.
The template has a table with columns for:
•Procedural Status
•What is the status for?
•Any required fields before saving?
•What status does it follow?
•What are the next statuses?
•Any Tasks, Messages, Reports, or Actions upon saving?
Procedural Status Planning Template (Word document, .docx, 34KB)