Production data that has been captured and can be approved, will be presented within Data Management grids on an approval tab. There will be a tab for each data management item listed for the approval page and there may be an approval page for each module.
The following requirements will be needed for the Approvals process.
A data management query over the Lookups table will need to have been created so that the approval status values can be entered.
The approval lookup data management query is used to enter the required approval status.
Note: Data Management Queries being used by the approvals function will need to be placed onto Approval page type navigation menus.
In the example above example the data management query has been filtered to only show the approval lookup values. It has also been set up to default the Table Code to Approvals and the Field Code to AppSta for any new records.
Refer to the Managing Administration Definition Types topic for information on how to manage the Data Management Queries - Administration definitions for the Approval Lookup used by the approvals function.
The data management query used to enter the required approval values.
In the above example three approval status records have been created.
The Load - Approvals data management query is used to assign approval status to Load records.
In the above example the Load - Approval Data Management Query has selected several fields and placed them in the order that they should appear on an the Load - Approvals tab on the approvals page. One of the fields is the Approved Status field, which will be available for editing on the approvals tab.
Refer to the Managing Administration Definition Types topic for information on how to manage the Data Management Queries - Administration definitions for the approvals function.
The Data Approval Navigation menu is used to display the approval data management queries ids assigned to the page.
Refer to the Navigation Menu topic for information on navigation menus.
In the above example two data management queries ids have been assigned to the Data Approval page. This page has been moved under the Material Movements menu.