Approval status

In any workflow phase with an approval, the Approval Status field will indicate if the Change has been approved, denied, or is still pending the approval process. A Change will not be allowed to progress past any phase with approvals until all the required approvals have been given. In change records, the Approvals section reflects only all approvals that must be performed in the current phase of the change workflow, not all approvals that are required in the entire change workflow.

Alerts and escalations can be built into the change process to prompt approvers as the RFC approval phase runs out of time, and basic checks such as not allowing an approval after the proposed planned start date and time are also possible.

Approval can also be sequenced to allow for certain approvals to be given (perhaps the technical team’s approval that the proposed RFC is technically feasible) before sending approval requests to managers for a business approval.

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