Lifecycle Stage and Lifecycle Status

[ayman_h]

Hi,

We would like to implement and track Lifecycle for foundation data (User, Company, Cost Center, etc). We noticed the Lifecycle status fields are not available for these tables and only available for the Location table outside the CMDB and Asset tables. 

Is it best practice to go ahead and create the two fields (Lifecycle Stage and Lifecycle Status) and create a data mapping to manage them?

Regards,

Ayman

[Ravi Peddineni]

@ayman_h 

May I know the use case of why the fields Lifecycle Stage and Lifecycle Status are needed on mentioned tables? Technically it is possible as they are just custom fields. But I want to know what's the use case behind the reqiuirement.

[ayman_h]

@Ravi Peddineni the use case is to track the life cycle of other Foundation tables. For e.g. a Cost Center that is non-operational and then being re-used again in the future.

[Ravi Peddineni]

@ayman_h 

I feel that Active field might work instead of the whole lifecycle because User or Cost Centers are either Active or In-active at any given point of time. There's no in-between stage unless you have an custom ask from HR or Accounting team. For example, Why would you bill to a cost center that is not active? or why would you give access to any module to some in-active users?

I can understand for a company as it might have different stages. 

[Kieran Anson]

If you haven't already, I'd give this a watch. I found it really informative and it does indicate that tracking the life cycle of foundational data is roadmapped.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiNy1ADkIzk