About Stages

A Stage describes the current step of the pharmaceutical development process managed by the project. The sequence specifies the order in which to carry out stages. You can close each stage before starting the next stage.

See Also
Introductory Concepts
Stages Sequence
Defining the Stages Sequence
Content Lifecycles

Each stage defines a group of tests to perform, the results of each determines whether the candidates fulfill the requirements associated with the test. When you interpret the results to provide answers, these decide whether to promote each candidate to subsequent stages.

For each stage, you can specify groups of tests to perform together in steps and define the order in which to carry out the steps.