As the administrator, you can change this information, and as you do so, Process Administrator keeps the application information up to date in the configuration directory. An application's status indicates whether it is currently running or not. An application's stage indicates whether it is in development or production, and whether it is available to end users. End users and administrators can access the application to initiate and manage process instances and work items. End users cannot initiate new process instances for the application and cannot execute actions on existing process instances.
Administrators can stop started applications or start a stopped application.
Designers deploy to Development or Production. If they deploy to Development, they can still change almost all aspects of the application. If they deploy to Production, they are very limited in what changes they can make. This is the initial stage after a designer has deployed the application. End users can complete existing process instances but cannot initiate any new process instances.