social-media/docs/TASKS/approval-workflow/002-align-content-lifecycle-statuses.md

Task: Align content lifecycle statuses

Feature

docs/FEATURES/approval-workflow.md

Goal

Align ContentItem.Status with the fixed lifecycle states defined by the approval workflow spec.

Scope

• Replace older review/rework/publishing statuses with the fixed lifecycle set:
  • Draft
  • In production
  • In approval
  • Approved
  • Scheduled
  • Published
• Update backend status validation and approval side effects.
• Update development seed content statuses.
• Update frontend status filters, labels, and manual status actions that referenced retired statuses.

Constraints

• Do not redesign the approval data model in this task.
• Do not implement workspace approval configuration, multi-level approval, comments, reminders, or magic links in this task.
• Keep the current approval request endpoints working as a compatibility layer until the workflow data model task replaces them.

Done When

• Backend accepts only the fixed lifecycle statuses for manual content status updates.
• Creating an approval request moves content to In approval.
• Recording an approved decision moves content to Approved.
• Frontend no longer offers or filters against retired content statuses.
• Development seed data uses fixed lifecycle statuses.

Validation Commands

dotnet build backend/Socialize.slnx
cd frontend && npm run build