Approved Symbols and Messages

An object can contain both workspace revisable data and globally revisable data. The Approved symbols and messages indicate the status of the workspace revisable data on a product, classification, image, or document. The status can be viewed in the Approved field on these objects.

For details on the approval process, refer to the Approving an Object topic here.

For more information on revisability, refer to the Revisions topic in the System Setup guide here.

Approved Status Symbols

Approved Symbols	Status	Description
	Unapproved	An object is unapproved if it has never been approved or if revised data on the product, classification, or images & documents in the current context is not approved. For example: An object has never been approved. Revised data has been changed in current context without being approved. Revised data includes attribute values, references, object names, or tables. Examples of changes to revised data include: A change in object name. A changed value on an internally maintained attribute. If an attribute has been linked to a product. If reference links to objects have been made. Note: When linking a product to classification and in case the classification object type owns the product links, then the product does not get the Unapproved symbol. For more information, refer to the Object Types and Structures topic in the System Setup guide here.
	Approved	Revised data on product, classification, or images & documents is approved in all contexts. Note: No data in any context needs to be approved.
	Partially approved	Revised data has been approved in current context but a reference, object name, or value needs to be approved for the object to be approved in all contexts. If you view another context, then you typically notice that: A dimension dependent reference is not approved. A dimension dependent value is not approved. A dimension dependent object name is not approved. When all the dimension dependent references, attribute values, and object names have been approved, the symbol changes from yellow Partial Approved symbol to a green Approved symbol.

Approved Symbols

Status

Description

Unapproved

An object is unapproved if it has never been approved or if revised data on the product, classification, or images & documents in the current context is not approved.

For example:

An object has never been approved.
Revised data has been changed in current context without being approved. Revised data includes attribute values, references, object names, or tables.

Examples of changes to revised data include:

A change in object name.
A changed value on an internally maintained attribute.
If an attribute has been linked to a product.
If reference links to objects have been made.

Note: When linking a product to classification and in case the classification object type owns the product links, then the product does not get the Unapproved symbol. For more information, refer to the Object Types and Structures topic in the System Setup guide here.

Approved

Revised data on product, classification, or images & documents is approved in all contexts.

Note: No data in any context needs to be approved.

Partially approved

Revised data has been approved in current context but a reference, object name, or value needs to be approved for the object to be approved in all contexts.

If you view another context, then you typically notice that:

A dimension dependent reference is not approved.
A dimension dependent value is not approved.
A dimension dependent object name is not approved.

When all the dimension dependent references, attribute values, and object names have been approved, the symbol changes from yellow Partial Approved symbol to a green Approved symbol.

Approved Status Messages

Messages are displayed for workspace revisable data as follows:

Unapproved

When an object is newly created and never been approved as shown below:

When an object attribute / reference is modified, the status will show as 'Last Approved on' along with the date and time as shown below:

Note: The 'Last Approved' message also displays if using the 'Partial Approve' option on an object. If 'Approved in Current Context' is displayed, then an object is also partially approved but a different message displays (as described at the end of this topic).

Approved

When an object is approved in all contexts the status displays as shown below:

Partially approved

When an object is approved in only some contexts the status displays as shown below: