How to map certificate state field to lifecycle stages and lifecycle stage status fields

[rodrigomoni]

Is a suggestion to use lifecycle stages and lifecycle stage status field instead use the field certificate state field (state is a regular field of cmdb_ci_certificate table).

[Mark Manders]

Lifecycle is added from CSDM and used as a common state instead of the different state fields a lot of CMDB tables have. It depends on your use case. What states are you using and do they have logical counter values on the lifecycle state/stage fields?