Creating an Approval Status

Before you begin

To create an Approval Status you must have Workflow Management rights.

About this task

Create an Approval Status so that you can assign it to an item after an activity in a Workflow Process is completed. Approval statuses are system-wide and can be used in any Process Definition.

The default Approval Status is Undefined. This non-modifiable status always has the lowest hierarchical importance.

Procedure

  1. From the Administration tab of the Ribbon, select Open approval status list.

    The Approval Status List dialog opens.

  2. Select a position in the Approval Status List and click the Add button.

    An Add window appears.

  3. Type the value of the Approval Status you want to add and click OK.
  4. Do one of the following:
    • to reorder the Statuses, select the Status you want to move and click Move Up or Move Down.
    • to edit the name of an Approval Status, select the Status you want to edit, click Edit button, and in the dialog that opens, modify the value and click OK to close it.
    • to remove an Approval Status, select that Status en select Remove.
    • to save the changes you made to the Status List, click OK to close the Approval Status List dualog.

Results

An Approval Status is added to the Content Manager.