Business rule state

At initial creation, all business rules are in the Draft state. As you begin the process of reviewing, evaluating, and updating a business rules, its state can vary and progress.

The Guidewire PolicyCenter business rules have the following sequence of states.

Draft	PolicyCenter assigns a status of Draft after you save the initial version of the rule. A rule reverts to Draft status whenever the rule undergoes any type of editing. It is not possible export a rule in the Draft state.
Staged	You manually move a rule in the Draft state to the Staged state, after you complete rule editing. Typically, this is the point in the rule lifecycle that you export the rule from the development environment and import the rule into the testing environment.
Approved	You manually move a rule from the Staged state to the Approved state, usually in the testing environment after you complete the rule evaluation phase. Typically, this is the point in the rule lifecycle that you export the rule from the testing environment and import it into the development environment.
Deployed	You manually move a rule from the Approved state to the Deployed state. Typically, this occurs after you import the rule into the production environment.

The following diagram describes the various states associated with a business rule, as it is created, edited, and deployed in development and production environments.