While working on another feature (which I will talk about someday soon) for ScreenSteps we decided that is was time to implement a status setting for lessons. A lesson can now be assigned a status of one of the following:

• Ready to publish
• Needs review
• Not finished/needs revision

The status of a lesson is pretty useful if you are the only person working on a manual as it helps you keep track of what needs work and what is finished. The feature becomes really useful when you are working on a manual as a team though. Now as you pass lessons around using manual/lesson packages or ScreenSteps Live everyone in the group can keep track of what stage each lesson is at.

In addition to helping you track the progress of a lesson you can also use the status of lessons to filter which lessons are exported when exporting to PDF or HTML.

Here is a video of me changing the status of lessons in a manual and then displaying the PDF and HTML export dialogs with the new lesson status filter feature. We are still working on the UI but the video should give you an idea of what is coming.