Editing a change record
What can be edited in a change record, and who by depends upon the
current state of the change record.
A change record goes through the following states.
- Draft - (Editors: Author) the change creator fills in all fields
intially to create the draft record, and then can only add additional
implementation comments, or submit the change for approval. After the change
is submitted for approval the change author can make no more updates
(unless the change author is in the implementation group also)
- Pending Approval - (Editors: Implementation Group) the assigned implementation
group can approve or reject the change, and add additional comments
into the implementation field. It may also be assigned to an
individual person.
- Approved - (Editors: Implementation Group) Anyone in the change implemntation group
may add additional comments or re-assign it to a different individual
up until the implementation time is reached. The change cannot be closed until
the approved time has been reached.
- Approved, time reached - (Editors: Implementation
Group) when an approved change record reaches it's scheduled implementation time
the change record can only be closed to completed, additional comments
may also be entered at this time but the only state change allowed it
'completed'.
- Rejected - (Editors: Author) If a change record is rejected by the implementation group, then the author of
the chage is granted access to the change record again to view the rejection
reason. The only action the author can take with a rejected change is to view
the rejected record, and then delete the rejected record. It cannot be
resubmitted.