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<ManualTopic ID="/baanerp/dm/onlinemanual/000021" xml:lang="en">
   <Header>
      <Title>Document Revisions</Title>
      <Keyword type="header" order="d1e271984">
         <Level1>Document revisions</Level1>
      </Keyword>
   </Header>
   <GeneralSection>
      <Paragraph>A document revision
		enables you to track the life cycle status of document. Document revisions are
		created by default when a document is created. A document revision is uniquely
		identified by a document ID and document type.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>Document revisions have the following status:</Paragraph>
      <List>
         <ListItem>In design</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Submitted</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Approved</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Rejected</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Released</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Expired</ListItem>
         <ListItem>Withdrawn</ListItem>
      </List>
      <Paragraph>Files and hard copies can be linked to the document revision.
		File operations such as linking files can be performed according to the user
		authorizations and the document revision status. The ERP objects, such as an
		item or a bill of material line which are available in LN ODM for a document,
		can be linked to the document revision. These objects are termed document
		revision contents, which you can copy from one document to another. The user
		can access the document from the object, using a document link. The document
		link with the object that you can maintain through the object lifecycle,
		Engineering, Planning, Build, and Maintain. Example: when a
		bill of material line is taken into production, the document link is maintained
		from the bill of material line to the estimated material line of the production
		order.</Paragraph>
      <Paragraph>You can link two types of documents, such as reference documents
		and child documents, to documents. The reviewers of the committee defined for
		the document can approve or reject a document.</Paragraph>
   </GeneralSection>
   <RelatedTopics>
      <SectionTitle>Related topics</SectionTitle>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/dm/onlinemanual/000022" role="manual">Files</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/dm/onlinemanual/000023" role="manual">Hard copies</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/dm/onlinemanual/000024" role="manual">Document Life Cycle</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/dm/onlinemanual/000025" role="manual">Links between Document Revisions</Link>
      </RelTopic>
      <RelTopic>
         <Link href="/baanerp/dm/onlinemanual/000026" role="manual">Linking Objects to Documents and Document Revisions</Link>
      </RelTopic>
   </RelatedTopics>
</ManualTopic>