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We now changed this workflow so that parts will only be pushed to the MES once an order was updated to a state of the “in progress” category. Following the default workflow states this refers to an order status update from Pending to Printing. Parts belonging to an order that is in the initial Pending state will not be listed in the MES parts list. This changes once the order is updated to the next state, making the part name on the order page clickable to direct you to the parts detail page in the MES. This further results
These changes further result in orders that are moved from Pending to Cancelled to never create Parts for printing in the MES system. A quick summary of the different states is listed in the following table:
State category | Default State | Order editable | Parts in MES |
|---|---|---|---|
initial | Pending | yes | no |
in progress | Printing | no | yes |
The act of updating the order to the next status category will at the same time disallow further editing of the order. With this update it is also prohibited to move back to the initial state category once an order has been moved to “in progress”.
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