---
id: ADR-PFM-QRY-009
title: Audience settings do not form a lifecycle
product_area: platform
module: queries
revision: 1
status: proposed
design_intent: assumed
source_sha:
  services-platform: ad3f6a6582843008ed0f5a17b131878d15829af1
  react-console: baf6dae382d6f41dce976c7f848667ccc37e076f
decision: >-
  Saved-query, view and report audiences are guarded attributes rather than ordered lifecycle
  states; deletion removes the definition after its own checks.
constrains:
  - DOM-PFM-QRY-002
  - DOM-PFM-QRY-003
origin: FND-PFM-QRY-037
alternatives:
  - option: 'Represent private, shared and deleted as a state machine'
    why_not: >-
      Audience changes are reversible, and the implementation removes deleted records rather than
      retaining that state.
consequences:
  - The planning lifecycle descriptions need to be interpreted with the recorded finding.
  - Audience restrictions remain in the planning rules and object invariants.
supersedes: []
evidence:
  - >-
    rhythm-v2-docs: specs/platform/queries/planning/concepts/CON-PFM-QRY-002-query.md,
    CON-PFM-QRY-003-report.md
---

# Audience settings do not form a lifecycle

## Context

Private and shared describe who can discover a definition. They do not form a one-way progression.

## Decision

Saved-query, view and report audiences are guarded attributes rather than ordered lifecycle states; deletion removes the definition after its own checks.

## Alternatives Considered

Represent private, shared and deleted as a state machine: Audience changes are reversible, and the implementation removes deleted records rather than retaining that state.

## Consequences

The planning lifecycle descriptions need to be interpreted with the recorded finding. Audience restrictions remain in the planning rules and object invariants.