All programs, regardless if they are internal or authorized, have a state. There are 4 program states.
Only Published programs with public visibility will be visible on Via's program search pages. If a Direct Program Link for a Draft or Archived Program is shared or publicly posted on external sites, travelers will have the ability to access, view, and potentially apply to any active term(s). If travelers try to access a link for an Unpublished Program, Via will redirect the traveler to the Traveler Program Search page. Via recommends sharing or posting direct program links once programs are ready to open to travelers.
- Draft
- All new programs are created as drafts
- Always accessible & editable by Admins (with permission)
- Never visible to Travelers
- State can be changed to published at any time
- State can be deleted at any time
- Think of drafts as a work in progress!
- Published
- Always accessible & editable by Admins (with permission)
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- Published programs are always visible to Travelers and Visitors (Unless they're marked private! More on private programs can be found here.)
- An authorized program in the published state that has authorization set to allowed is always available to be authorized/visible to Travelers if authorized
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- State can be changed to unpublished at any time
- Think of it as the official, live state that Travelers and Visitors can see
- Unpublished
- Always accessible & editable by admins (with permission)
- Unpublished programs are never visible to travelers or visitors
- An authorized program in the unpublished state is never available to be authorized and is not visible to Travelers
- State can be changed back to published at any time
- Think of it as a version 'on hold'
- Archived
- Accessible by Admins, but never editable
- Archived programs are never visible to Travelers or Visitors
- An authorized program in the archived state is never available to be authorized and is not visible to Travelers
- State can never be changed
- Think of it being in the program graveyard