Managing status values
Overview
Blueprint allows project administrators with the correct privileges to add additional discussion status values and approval status values. Custom status values offer flexibility in the way you manage comments and approvals.
Example
Noah, a business analyst, sometimes finds it challenging to get stakeholders to sign off on artifacts. Some of his reviewers do not feel comfortable approving the artifacts until after a few specific changes are made.
In order to simplify the sign off process, Noah creates a new approval status value called Approved with Conditions. Now, reviewers can simply add a comment to the artifact to describe the conditions, and then set the approval status to Approved with Conditions.
Status values are defined and managed using the Status Values tab in the Project Administration Console. The Status Values tab looks like this:
Default status values
The following discussion status values exist by default:
- Open: Indicates the discussion status is open. When a discussion is open, users can reply to comments in the discussion.
- Closed: Indicates the discussion status is closed. When a discussion is closed, users can no longer reply to comments in the discussion.
The following approval status values exist by default:
- Not Specified: Indicates the review participant has not approved or disapproved the artifact. This is the default approval status value. After a review participant has approved or disapproved an artifact, the reviewer can still change the status back to Not Specified.
- Approved: Indicates the review participant has approved the artifact.
- Disapproved: Indicates the review participant has disapproved the artifact.
Note: You cannot modify or delete the default status values.
Tasks
Creating a new discussion status value
Creating a new approval status value
