Scott,

I know there have been discussions around this here.

Here is the minimal information: https://jazz.net/projects/rational-team-concert/features/wi

An approval or review or verification is an element that can have one or more users assigned for approval. The individual state of the users approval can be pending, approved, rejected.
The state of the approval is accumulated. It is approved if all approver approve. It is rejected as soon as one approver rejects. it is pending if it is not rejected, but not all approvers have approved (there are pending approvals).

It is possible to trigger a state transition based on the approval cumulative state.

A work item can have as many of those records as one wishes. Changes are recorded in the history.

It is pretty informal.

There is an advisor that would reject delivery of change sets unless they have a work item with an approval with cumulative state approved associated. http://phkrief.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/enforce-work-item-approvals-in-rational-team-concert/

It is not bullet proof and there are other behaviors you could ask for. But that is basically how it works.

Thanks, that helps a bit.

So, as someone that has be designated an approver, what do I do? I assume I can add comments and such to the work item itself, but how does one actually approve/reject??

Scott,

there is an approval tab on the work item. You select the "pending" behind you name and change it to "approved" or "rejected".