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# Activate the Pipeline

A pipeline is ready for your team to use after you activate it.

Here’s some important information about pipeline activation:

- You and your team can create work items after a pipeline is activated.
- You can’t inactivate a pipeline after changes have been promoted through it.
- You can edit only inactive pipelines. If you haven’t yet promoted changes, you can deactivate it, make the changes, and then reactivate it.
- You can remove pipeline environments only if the pipeline is inactive.

You can activate the pipeline if the status is `Ready to activate`. If there are validation errors with the pipeline, a `Not Ready` warning appears next to the Activate button with a link to see the errors to resolve.

![If you click on the Not Ready warning icon, you see the Validation Errors pop-up, where you can click See Errors to get more information.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center_setup-264-0-0-production-enus/4741b024-a514-4bcf-8f2f-9d308932d2de/devops_center_setup/images/pipeline-activate-errors.png)

The errors appear in context, so you know exactly what to address.

![Example of errors displayed if you click See Errors in the Validation Errors pop-up for pipeline activation.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-platform-devops_center_setup-264-0-0-production-enus/4741b024-a514-4bcf-8f2f-9d308932d2de/devops_center_setup/images/pipeline-stage-errors.png)