When creating an article, you must give it a status. You can always change an article's status.

The meaning and consequence of the various statuses are:

• In progress - save and close the article and return to it before you publish
  • The article can only be accessed by you as editor as long as the article has this status
     
• Not published - see the article in the article overview without publishing it in the portal
   
• Scheduled for publication - publish the article at a future date and/or set an expiration date
  • After the date of expiration, the article will get the status Expired
    
• Published - to publish the article right away when clicking Save
   
• Review - to send the article to a colleague for review and edit
  • Choose the person to review your article from the Select a new editor-drop down list
  • Under Comments for the receiving editor, you can write a note or message for the other editor
  • When clicking Save, the new editor will receive a e-mail notification that they must review your article
  • The article is not published as long as it has the Review-status