Determining the Approval Steps

Use

You need to check all the requests of the QA worklist in a QA system that are active and apply to the approval step for this system.

After configuring your QA system, you can determine and change the approval steps for this system.

By default, there are three cross-system approval steps and the step Approved by system administrator is active.

You can also define other steps in addition to the default approval steps. If you define additional approval steps and have configured more than one QA system, you can determine if the additional steps are to be system-/client-specific (only one QA system) or cross-system/client (global).

The type of approval step determines which authorization is required to be able to process this step.

Default Approval Steps

Approval Step	Default Status	Required Authorization
Approved by request owner	Inactive	No special authorization is required for your own requests, since a check is made against the user names. For other requests, you can process this step if you are authorized for the value TADM for the authorization object S_CTS_ADMI (field CTS_ADMFCT). By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_ADMIN.
Approved by department	Inactive	You need the authorization for the value QTEA or the value TADM for the authorization object S_CTS_ADMI (field CTS_ADMFCT). By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_QATEST or S_CTS_ADMIN.
Approved by system administrator	Active	You need the authorization for the value TADM for the authorization object S_CTS_ADMI (field CTS_ADMFCT). By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_ADMIN.

Approval Step

Default Status

Required Authorization

Approved by request owner

Inactive

No special authorization is required for your own requests, since a check is made against the user names.

For other requests, you can process this step if you are authorized for the value TADM for the authorization object S_CTS_ADMI (field CTS_ADMFCT). By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_ADMIN.

Approved by department

Inactive

You need the authorization for the value QTEA or the value TADM for the authorization object S_CTS_ADMI (field CTS_ADMFCT).

By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_QATEST or S_CTS_ADMIN.

Approved by system administrator

Active

You need the authorization for the value TADM for the authorization object S_CTS_ADMI (field CTS_ADMFCT).

By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_ADMIN.

To be able to distribute the QA status, you must have the value TQAS in the CTS_ADMFCT field of the authorization S_CTS_ADMI. By default, this is contained in the authorization S_CTS_ADMIN.

Prerequisites

You have configured the QA system.

Procedure

Note

Note the following rules:

At least one approval step must be active for each defined QA system.
You cannot delete the three default approval steps. You cannot change the type or the text. You can only set the approval steps to be active or inactive.

You can determine the approval steps in the following ways: