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# Promoting and Closing Tasks

After a task reached the Verified state it is ready to be promoted and committed into the MAIN repository. You need to click the **`Promote`** button in the *Actions* section. If it is disabled that means that the task has not been reviewed and verified.

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After a successful promotion, the life cycle of the task gets to the end: the task is automatically inactivated. 
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From this point it cannot be reopened anymore. In the **Task List View** the item will not be present after starting a new session in the client.

Tasks can be closed without promoting changes using the **`Close`** button in the **Task Editor**. The button is available in three states: Open, In progress, and Verified. When the button is clicked, a dialog pops up asking to confirm that the user surely wants to close the task. Pressing **`Close`** ends up inactivating the task. From this point it cannot be reopened anymore.