Setting Up Publishing Without an Approval Process 

Use

If you activate the approval process for documents in a folder, but do not define any approval steps, authors can publish the documents themselves. New documents initially have the status In Processing. This means that the documents are visible only for users with write permission (or the service permission Approver Administration). When an author publishes a document, it receives the status Released and is visible for users with read permission.

Prerequisites

You have the service permission Approver Administration (or Full Control) for the folder.

Procedure

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       1.      Open the Details dialog box for the folder.

       2.      Choose Settings ® Approval.

       3.      Choose Enable Approval Process.