How to bulk modify the state of approval in RTC?

I am not aware of any UI that does this. As far as I can see, the bulk edit in RTC (web UI) is only for attributes. An approval is not really an attribute, it is a special kind of collection with a more complex structure. The user would have to open every work item and approve that.

Since Approvals are required for a good reason and should not just been thrown in for fun, I think it is reasonable that approvers have to open the work item and investigate if they can approve.

If the approval is abused as a flag, with no real business value and only for formal reasons - this is the situation where a bulk approve would make sense - I would suggest to rather add a boolean or enumeration value that is limited to be set by certain roles and then a bulk modification is possible.

Hi Ralph,

Thank you for the detailed response.

I agree with you totally on this is how the approval process should be, but we have a scenario where we maintain a component with general scripts and other artifacts for which a review is not required. However, since we have this part of the same team/project area for which an operation advisor to mandate approvals is required on any delivery, we would prefer a bulk approval mechanism.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Regards,

Sunita

There is no bulk update. You can write an enhancement request if you want. Options as I see them:

1. Create a team area that owns the component and does not require the approval (for everyone)
   
2. If the users work with eclipse create your own approval automation

For 1 see https://jazz.net/library/article/292