Lifecycles is in beta and available to selected organizations. To request access, contact your Ravenna representative, or reach out to the Ravenna team on Slack or through the in-app chat.
Lifecycles is in each workspace’s sidebar. Members of the workspace build its templates and start its lifecycles. People outside the workspace work the steps they own.
What you can do
Build templates
Lay out the steps, who owns each one, when it unlocks and what it waits on. Publish when it’s ready.
Collect forms
Ask someone to fill in a form at a step, prefill it from HR and earlier steps, and send it to people without an account.
Run lifecycles
Start a lifecycle by hand or from an HR suggestion, follow it on a timeline, board or graph, and work your steps from My tasks.
Automate with workflows
Run a workflow when a step opens, start lifecycles from HR events, and act when a lifecycle completes.
How it works
1
Build and publish a template
A template lists the steps, their owners and offsets, and the where each lifecycle’s parent ticket is created. Publishing makes a new version. Lifecycles you start use the published version, and running lifecycles keep the version they started on.
2
Start a lifecycle
Choose the template, the person and the anchor date. Ravenna creates a parent ticket and schedules every step around the date.
3
Steps unlock and open tickets
A step unlocks on its day once the steps it depends on are done or skipped. It then opens a ticket for its owner, and messages the owner when it’s a person.
4
Closing a step's ticket completes the step
The steps waiting on it unlock in turn. When every step is done or skipped, the lifecycle completes.