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Page Layouts can get quite cumbersome. Take for example Cases - you want different layouts for different profiles, then different layouts for different stages of the Case process (eg the support team should put the case through to an Admin for Approval where the Admin can see some key info about their account status. The Accounts team just see basic info about Open cases). See the example in Building a "Simple" Case Management Process.
| Profile | Stage |
|---|---|
| Admin | New |
| In Progress | |
| Approval | |
| Closed | |
| Support | New |
| In Progress | |
| Closed | |
| Accounts | Open |
| Closed |
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