Maintain Auto Progression Stage Codes {SSTUDP-14}

This option is used to set up the Stages that will be applied within the Auto Promotion process when evaluating if a student can be promoted to the next study period.

These stages are executed when processing the Auto Promotion engine {SSTUDP-17}. Examples of the typical stages are:

Pre-Progression (PPRO) refers to the selection process for students to consider for progression. This is used to identify the students to be processed
Annual Result Calculation (ARC) to calculate the Annual Results upon which Promotion will be based. (This stage was a later addition and functionality is not included in {SSTUD4-24})
Progression Validation (PVAL) refers to the rules that are used to determine if a student can progress to a next study period.
Progression Path (POUT) refers to rules that should be applied as determined by the Progression validation outcomes, i.e. What happens after validation;

create an application,
remove existing application when student can progress after writing supplementary exam,
create Planned subjects.

Field	Type & Length	Description
Stage Code	A5	The user to define a 'Stage Code'.
Description	A80	The description of the 'Stage Code'.
Sequence	N3	The 'Sequence' will be populated, but is updateable by the user.
Final Stage	Y / N	The Final stage indicator is not used.
Active	Y / N	Only Active Stages will be processed by the Promotion engine.
Terminate	Y / N	If Terminate is set to Yes, the stage will fail if any rule linked to the stage fails and the process will terminate (Subsequent stages will not kick off) for the student being processed.

Example:

Processing Rules
	No special processing rules.

Date	System Version	By Whom	Job	Description
20-Mar-2020	v04.1.0.1	Magda van der Westhuizen	t245325	New manual
23-Jun-2020	v04.1.0.2	Esther Nel	t255431	Elaborate on functionality