Changing the Lifecycle State of Components used in a Project

Created: May 7, 2025
Updated: September 2, 2025

Summary:

This video demonstrates how to change the lifecycle state for components used in a project. To begin, open Altium Designer and change to a classic view in the explorer.

Within the list of draft components, starting with a first component that is a non component, hold the shift key to select all of the components. Move the lifecycle state of all of the components to prototype and restart Altium Designer. Open the project in the explorer, classic view, and notice that the children are in a prototype state, as expected.

Transcript:

00:00:00:00 - 00:00:26:05
All the items in the Altium 365 Workspace. So when you release a design, you can make sure that the fabrication output which contain the Gerber Files and the ANSI drill files, all the files to produce the board, reflects the state in which the data is, in this case in prototype. But it might be that you also want to change the lifecycle state of the used components to indicate that they are used in the design and are trustworthy.

00:00:26:06 - 00:00:47:07
So for example, this component is currently in draft state, but in Altium 365 Pro we can change them at once. You can do this from Altium Designer. In Altium Designer I have the same project here and I can show it in the explorer.

00:00:47:08 - 00:01:14:10
In explorer, I can change the view to classic view, and I can see that the project item has children. Here you see the list of all the components. You can see that they are in draft state. I will select the first non component. Hold shift to select everything and I need to select one that that's not a component.

00:01:14:10 - 00:01:39:12
That's the first one to make sure that the change state also takes, it omits the first one. And I'm going to change everything to prototype. If I want to change it, I could also make it obsolete. For now, I will move it to prototype process.

00:01:39:13 - 00:01:52:14
So I have not changed the lifecycle state of all these components. You can see this one is in prototype now.

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Let's switch to the project again. That's the where used. Here, doesn't show the state yet. For this, you need to restart Altium Designer as it's being cached.

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And check the project in explorer

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in classic view.

00:02:27:03 - 00:02:47:12
We can see that all the children are now in prototype state. That's it. That's is the easiest way to move all the used components in the project into the next lifecycle state to indicate that they are trusted components. Thanks for watching. Bye bye.

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