Restrict visibility of status options by group
You can control visibility of a particular status to only certain groups.
By default, when you open the Change Status dialog box, all the available statuses to which an object can be set to are visible to all groups. Depending on the situation or the complexity of your workflow, you might want to limit the number of statuses visible to only those relevant to the group.
Suppose your workflow is similar to the diagram. If you have a topic with a Authoring:revDone status, and then you open the Change Status dialog box, your default choices are Authoring:edit, Authoring:review, and Authoring:work. You can hide the Authoring:edit status from users in the subject matter experts (SMEs) group, so they cannot push a topic to that status.