You can review the status of the active project using the Project Status command in Drawing Manager. This dialog shows the status of the active project and tells you where the project is in its lifecycle.
The following diagram shows the four possible project states: Active, Completed, Merged, and Canceled states.
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Active — Indicates that the project is ready for design work to proceed. When a project is created, it automatically becomes active and remains in this state until it is either completed or canceled. While a project is active, all the various project design activities, such as checking out and revising drawings, checking in drawings, and so forth, can be performed.
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Completed — Indicates that work on the project has come to an end. All drawings checked out to the project are verified for check-in by Drawing Manager when the project is promoted to Completed. Work in a completed project is not allowed. You can reactivate a completed project and do more work, but to finish the project, you must change the status back to Completed.
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Merged — Indicates that a project is complete and that all project data has been merged back into the Plant. When the project is promoted to Merged, Drawing Manager checks in all drawings and merges all project data back into the Plant.
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Canceled — Indicates that the project can no longer be worked on. In this state, drawings cannot be checked into or out of the Plant. Canceling a project releases all claimed items and reverses the checkout of all drawings. A canceled project can be deleted in Smart Engineering Manager.