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Enrollment Flows can be used to customize the enrollment process. Enrollment flows can also add additional Organizational Identities or CO Person Roles to an existing CO Person, through some form of identity matching. The execution of an enrollment flow results in the creation of a Petition, an artifact that tracks the enrollment and becomes an historical record once enrollment is completed. For day to day purposes, petition attributes are copied to operational records, which are editable via the web and REST interfaces.
The following participants are involved in enrollment:
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Linking refers to the management of links between existing Organizational Identities and CO Person records. Linking can happen automatically as part of an enrollment process. However, a CO Administrator can also manually adjust these links, usually to resolve enrollment issues.