The status of a CO Person can be calculated from the status of the CO Person Roles attached. This happens automatically under the following conditions:
The CO Person status is set to the "most preferred" status of the attached CO Person Roles. "Most preferred" is currently defined as:
In general, active statuses are most preferred, followed by invitation statuses, and then expired statuses.
When a CO Person Role status is manually changed, the CO Person status is not automatically recalculated. The administrator should set the desired CO Person status.