Sometimes you need to remove status, or unstatus
, something in Teamcenter.
Typically removing status from objects would be an administrator task to repair some sort of mistake. But you could have a standard workflow where objects go through state changes from statused to unstatused and back again.
Here’s how to do it.
release_man utility
One option is the release_man command line utility. However this can only be run by a DBA user and doesn’t leave any records behind. You can’t tell who used it to remove status, and you can’t build it into a workflow.
An Unstatus Workflow
Another option is to create a workflow that removes the status. This gives you the ability to provide the functionality to non-DBA users, perhaps after having passed certain validations by rule handlers or by human review and approval. An unstatusing workflow also leaves a record in the database of who ran it, and if necessary who approved it, etc.
Remove Status with set-status DELETE
Creating an unstatusing workflow is easy. Just add the set-status action-handler, with the argument DELETE, to a task in the workflow. If you want to delete only certain statuses add -f=status_name to the argument list. If you want to delete all statuses then use DELETE by itself. The handler is normally attached to the complete action of a task, but you can attach it anywhere.
The DELETE option has been available for a while but it wasn’t always documented. It used to be only mentioned in a IR that you could look up in the GTAC database. It is documented in TC 8.3, however.
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