Adding Lifecycles

Follow the instructions below to add a lifecycle to the Governance Registry.

1. Sign in. Enter your user name and password to log on to the Management Console.

2. Click the "Extensions" button to access the "Extensions" menu.

3. From the left navigation menu, under "Extensions," select "Lifecycles."

4. Click the "Add New Lifecycle " link on the "Lifecycles" page.

5. A configuration page with a sample lifecycle configuration is shown. Make needed alterations and click on the "Save" button to save the configuration.

See the detailed information about a lifecycle configuration in Configuring Lifecycles.

See also Managing Lifecycle to learn how to assign a lifecycle to a resource/collection.

Adding multiple life cycles

WSO2 Governance Registry 4.6.0 allows only one lifecycle to attach to a particular governance artifact type. However, there can be instances when an artifact is governed in the G-Reg and is in the Store, where you want to associate it with a Store-specific life cycle in the Store, and also have another development life cycle within G-Reg itself. Thereby with the new improvements in G-Reg 5.0.0 onwards, you can associate multiple life cycles to a resource. The functionality of the resource is independent of its life cycles

For an example, when you add a new service, it is associated with a Service-specific lifecycle by default. You view it in the Attached Life-Cycles panel as shown below. 

You can associate another life cycle to the resource by adding the life cycle in the Lifecycle panel, when you add the resource as shown below. 

Now, you view the EndPointLifeCycle you selected above also associated to the Service artifact in the Attached Life-Cycles panel as shown below. 

You can view the history of all life cycle operations on state transfers in the Lifecycle History panel as shown below.