Looking for "Approval" information...
I see that you can perform a action based on an approval.
1) Is there a guide to describe what can be done with it, beyond the help file?
2) Can you limit who can and cannot be an "Approver"?
3) What if you have 4 approvers and one rejects while the others approve?
4) Is there anything else that can be done with "Approval"?
5) Are there different capabilities inherent to the Approval types? (Approval, Review, Verification)?
1) Is there a guide to describe what can be done with it, beyond the help file?
2) Can you limit who can and cannot be an "Approver"?
3) What if you have 4 approvers and one rejects while the others approve?
4) Is there anything else that can be done with "Approval"?
5) Are there different capabilities inherent to the Approval types? (Approval, Review, Verification)?
3 answers
Hi
1) The Work Item Customization Article has a section about Approval Trackings: https://jazz.net/learn/LearnItem.jsp?href=content/docs/work-items-cust/index.html
2) You can control who can create and modify approvals using permissions
3) The cumulative state of an approval is: approved iff all have approved, rejected if any has rejected, pending else.
4) There are SCM conditions that base on approvals. You can have a deliver pre-condition that checks for approvals of a certain type. E.g. no change can be delivered without a review
5) No, the different types can be used by the approval tracking and the precondition.
Regards
Marcel
Jazz Work Item team
1) The Work Item Customization Article has a section about Approval Trackings: https://jazz.net/learn/LearnItem.jsp?href=content/docs/work-items-cust/index.html
2) You can control who can create and modify approvals using permissions
3) The cumulative state of an approval is: approved iff all have approved, rejected if any has rejected, pending else.
4) There are SCM conditions that base on approvals. You can have a deliver pre-condition that checks for approvals of a certain type. E.g. no change can be delivered without a review
5) No, the different types can be used by the approval tracking and the precondition.
Regards
Marcel
Jazz Work Item team
Hi
No. The approval tracking can only execute actions that exist, and such actions can always be transitioned from within the editor. A possible approach would be to have a precondition that checks the action and the approvals and denies the work item save when the required approval is not present. Such a precondition does not exist yet (as far as I know). You either have to contribute one by yourself, or you can file an enhancement request on jazz.net. The following wiki page covers preconditions and follow-up actions: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/PreconditionFollowupCreation
Regards
Marcel
Jazz Work Item team
No. The approval tracking can only execute actions that exist, and such actions can always be transitioned from within the editor. A possible approach would be to have a precondition that checks the action and the approvals and denies the work item save when the required approval is not present. Such a precondition does not exist yet (as far as I know). You either have to contribute one by yourself, or you can file an enhancement request on jazz.net. The following wiki page covers preconditions and follow-up actions: https://jazz.net/wiki/bin/view/Main/PreconditionFollowupCreation
Regards
Marcel
Jazz Work Item team