Changesets are a means to group objects to modify them in a single change process. Changesets may be useful to implement changes to documents or the corporate identity of your organization. You can define a Changeset in a project, so that it only contains the objects that belong to this change process. You need to manually add necessary objects to a Changeset.

Changesets can be active or inactive. A Changeset becomes active once it is created. The goal of a Changeset is to pass a number of related changes to objects through the object lifecycle, ending with publication of these changes. Once a Changeset is published, it receives the Published status and becomes inactive automatically. Also, you can manually deactivate a Changeset. When you deactivate a Changeset, objects that belong to it can be used again outside of the Changeset.

KCM differentiates between two Changeset types:

• Changesets created and managed internally by KCM Designer. For more information, see Create a new Changeset, Manage a Changeset created in KCM Designer, and Deactivate a Changeset.
• Changesets created and controlled by an external workflow. For more information, see the section CCMContentApprovalWorkflow contract type in the Kofax Communications Manager API Guide. Also, see Manage a Changeset created outside of KCM Designer.

The following restrictions apply to a Changeset:

• An object may be member of only one active Changeset.

• You can remove an object from a Changeset only if it has not been changed since it was added.

• To perform actions on a Changeset that you are working on, select it from the Changeset list. If you do not select a Changeset, you can perform actions on objects that are not in any active Changeset.

This procedure shows how to start working with an existing Changeset: