I would say that about half of the clients that I develop workflows for have a step after "Deployment to PROD" to "Validate PROD."
The purpose of this step is to Validate that the Deployment to PROD was successful prior to closing the CSR.
I have had many clients ask if there is a way to "automatically release" the locks once the CSR gets to this status so that Development can begin again. This is particularly important for clients who choose to use Release Management to migrate many CSRs at once, i.e. weekly, bi-weekly or monthly. This request was made to me again at another implementation last week.
The larger the release, the more time-consuming and cumbersome it is to open each CSR in the release and release the locks.
If there could be a check-mark on the Workflow Status Rules for "Unlock Objects" and then a box that lists all of the Environments + {None} that would be great. So by default no objects would be unlocked in a status, but if the checkbox were checked then the client could choose the environments that he wants checked. That way they could choose to retain the objects in PROD if they wanted, or unlock all objects in all environments.
I believe that this feature is really needed and would be used by many Stat customers.
