Association template and its published versions

The Lifecycle

Transitions Explained

The transition rows describe stored state changes, their checks and their recorded effects. A queue receive, provider outcome and staff action can reach different lifecycle boundaries.

What Cannot Happen

Archived templates cannot be republished; an owner save creates another active template. Publishing history cannot be removed to restore a draft-only template.

Concurrency and Timing

Draft replacement guards the expected version in its database update. The active-owner unique index resolves competing first creations. Marketing version storage returns identical content and refuses a changed publication for that message version. Publication checks state and optional expected version before locking and does not recheck them under the lock; owned draft changes can commit before publication.