There are three types of states of the items in the platform. These states are called Draft, Current, or Past. These states apply to timeline assessments (not comparison assessments) and scenarios.

Draft

Draft is the default state for a new item, or an item has been edited and not yet set to current by a user. This state represents work in progress for scenarios and assessments. When creating a copy of a current item, the newly created copy will be in the draft state. There can only be one version of a scenario or assessment in draft state at a time.

Draft items have the following properties:

• Items can be run at any time.

• Can be used as a future hypothetical state of an organization’s risk.

• A draft item may or may not have results. If you run a draft item, such as an analysis, you will get

  results, but your assessment will still be in draft state until manually set to current.

Current

Items with a state of Current have the following properties:

• A risk analysis can have only one current version at a time.

• Items cannot be edited.

• Current items can be copied to a new draft state version.

To set items as current, there are some basic rules that must be true:

• Child items are set to current (an assessment’s scenarios are all current status).

• Any necessary processes have finished running (for example, a user has run the analysis for

  results).

• A user clicks Set to Current to save the results. This represents an organization’s current state of risk.

Once the above needs are met, an item can be set to current:

• By converting or promoting a draft state version to become the current state version.

• When a subscribed data source (asset, data helper, threat, scenario) changes, any scenario or

  assessment subscribed to that item will be changed to a Past state to preserve those settings as a snapshot. This also creates a copy with the new subscribed items as the new Current.

Past

Past versions are a completed analysis representing an item at a point in time. They provide a snapshot of these past points in time. These can be viewed but not edited. They can be copied to a new draft if there is not already a draft in progress.