A project is associated with the following status values or stages:

Stage

Purpose

Condition

Initial stage.

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Manually activated. This stage normally signifies that a project estimation has been conducted.

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Automatically activated on scheduling hour consumption.

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Manually activated. This stage normally signifies start of the project.

Minimum stage required for recording transactions on the project.

Manually activated.

If you select this stage, further processes cannot be carried out on the project.

You define the different stages a particular project type must pass through in . For example, if you define that projects of type only have to pass through the stages , and , when you update the project, only these stages are sequentially available while the other stages are grayed.