Celoxis allows you to define your own project states to suit your business requirements. The following are the pre-defined states. You can edit them OR add your own states as necessary.

	States
Action	Draft	Active	On Hold	Completed	Cancelled
Send email notifications
Allow Time
Show RAG indicators for project
Show RAG indicators for task
Recalculate Projections
Recalculate schedule based on resource work exceptions

Stages

A “stage” determines the behavior of a particular state. Most system actions are tied to a project stage. There are three stages: Planning, Execution and Closure to correspond to different stages in your project life-cycle.

For example, if a state has a stage “Planning”, then email notifications are not sent. The RAG indicator of the project with this state will be “Not Active”. Similarly, the projected dates for the tasks/project will not be shown. However, adding exceptions will affect the task dates.

The following table describes the behavior of each stage.

Stage	Show RAG (project)	Show RAG (task)	Send Email Notifications	Resource Work Exceptions impact schedule	Recalculate projections
Planning	(Not Active)
Execution
Closure	(Not Active)

Browser not supported