The following image describes the business initiative workflow:

If you need to update the Glossary assets in a specific time frame, you can specify an open date and close date to record the time frame when the Glossary assets change. You can add Glossary assets that are in the draft phase or review phase to a business initiative. A Glossary asset can belong to only one business initiative until the initiative is published or rejected.

The data steward of the assets that are part of the initiative must update each Glossary asset based on the requirements of the initiative. However, you can propose, approve, and publish or reject all Glossary assets in a business initiative at the same time. When you publish an asset that is part of an initiative, the Analyst tool defers the publish and changes the phase to

Pending Publish

. The Analyst tool publishes all assets, including the assets in the

Pending Publish

phase when you publish the business initiative.

When you reject a business initiative, you can choose to change the phase of all the assets that are part of the initiative to

Rejected

. Or you can retain the phases of the assets. When you chose to retain the phases of the assets, the Analyst tool changes the phase of the business initiative to rejected, but retains the phases of the assets that are part of the initiative. Any initiative that was in the pending publish phase is published. After you publish or reject an initiative, you cannot make further changes to the initiative.