Document LifeCycle in Telema may consist of the following steps (not all of the steps are mandatory):
- Sending to Telema system. Documents can be sent to Telema via:
- Telema Gateway - can be used to send documents in Telema eDoc forma
- Telema FATGateway - can be used in case some preprocessing and convertion of documents to Telema eDoc or any other format is required.
- Other communication protocol, eg FTP, HTTPS+SOAP, SFTP, VPN, CSP ... - usually used in case of big corporate-type of clients who have their own rules for connectivity.
Telema communication server is used as a middletire reciever in case of non-secure or other client-specific requirements receiver. it then transfers document further to Telema system.
- Authentication
- Entry point check - entry point assigned to customer shows in what format document can arrive to Telema system (what formatter to use).
- Convert to eDoc - required only in case documents arrive to entry point different than EDocument.Entry.Entry.Q.
- Authorization
- Process mapping - system fetches all of the processes described for send and for receiver of the document and sets them in the queue the document will have to pass.
- PreProcessing - all the things that have to be done before the document will be saved in Telema system
- Registering document in system
- PostProcessing - all the things that have to be done for the document to receive the form receiver has requested
- Registering document in receiver queue - put the document in the line for the receiver

Document business statuses are described in this file.
Process descriptions in this file.