Approve Status Change
Explanation
This activity is used to approve a status change of a contract change order (CCO). It may be necessary to
approve in several stages/statuses of the CCO before approval can completed and activated later for implementation.
An approval per status should be defined first in the Change Order Approvals page. This approval per status should
then be approved before the status of the CCO can be changed.
For each approval per status line it is optional to define an approval routing in Attachments. The steps
in this approval routing can be entered manually or be retrieved automatically from the change type and the
respective approval rule in Contract Change Management/ Approval Rule page. To change the status of the approval
per status line to approved all steps in the approval routing should be approved first.
Prerequisites
- A CCO should exist.
- An approval per status line should be defined in the the Change Order Approvals page. The Change Approval
Status field for this approval line should be set to the status you want to approve i.e. Analysis in
Progress, Analyzed, Submittal Approved, Approved, Active, Closed or Canceled.
- An approval routing can be connected to the approval line above. This step is optional.
- IFS Document Management should be installed.
- If approval per status lines and/or approval routings should be added automatically to the CCO these should
be defined for the the change type and the respective approval rule in Contract Change Management/ Approval Rule
page.
System Effects
- The status is changed for the CCO. A history record is created and displayed in the Contract Change
Order/History tab.