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For each user, workflow defines a pool of resource instances he/she can claim. Depending on the user's role and the configuration of the system, these may only appear in one state and one workspace, or many states and/or graphs.& For example, the typical curator has access to resources in the Curation, Published, and Withdrawn states.

QUESTION: What if the Claim operation is bound to a specific transition? The user would have to make the claim in the context of a transition, and we could then have a customizable method associated with the claim. This would let us configure, e.g., whether or not to make the instance writable. When claiming a Withdrawn or Published instance, for example, you might not want to allow it to be written until it goes back to Curation. Is this useful or necessary?

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