Document Revisions

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.

Document revisions have the following status:

• In design
• Submitted
• Approved
• Rejected
• Released
• Expired
• Withdrawn

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.

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.