> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.ravenna.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Lifecycles

> Run onboarding, offboarding and role changes as a plan of steps laid out around one date, with a ticket for each step and the owners, forms, workflows and access each one needs.

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.

## Mental model

* **Template → published version → lifecycle → steps.** Editing a template changes its draft. Publishing creates a version; a lifecycle pins the version it started on.
* **Every step is offset from the anchor date** (negative is before). A step unlocks when its day arrives and all of its dependencies are done or skipped.
* **Each unlocked step opens a step ticket** in its owner's channel, or in the template's channel for a person or agent owner. A step ticket reaching a done status completes the step.
* **Step kinds:** Manual (close the ticket), Form (submitting the form completes the step), Workflow (a workflow on the Lifecycle Step trigger runs and closes the ticket), Access (grant an access level through access requests, or revoke all the person's access).
* **Lifecycles only reads answers from Form steps.** A step, its workflow and its Send form to can use a Form step's answers when the step depends on that Form step (directly or through other steps) and its answers are shared with the whole lifecycle, or private to the workspace they run in.
* Lifecycles live under **Lifecycles** in a workspace's sidebar, with the tabs Needs review, Active, Completed, My tasks and Templates.


## Related topics

- [List lifecycles](https://docs.ravenna.ai/api/lifecycles/list-lifecycles.md)
- [Get a lifecycle](https://docs.ravenna.ai/api/lifecycles/get-a-lifecycle.md)
- [Lifecycles and workflows](https://docs.ravenna.ai/documentation/automate/lifecycles/workflows.md)
- [Run lifecycles](https://docs.ravenna.ai/documentation/automate/lifecycles/run.md)
- [Device lifecycle](https://docs.ravenna.ai/guides/playbooks/it/device-lifecycle.md)


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