Creating Approval Rules

Approval rules are auxiliary items that are associated with release or environment approvals. Once created, the approval rules can be added to their corresponding entities, either release trains or release packages.

You must create approval rules before approval requests can be generated for release trains or release packages that require approvals.

Users who are assigned to these roles in the Release Data process app can create approval rules in the RLC Approval Rules auxiliary table:

Release Manager
Release Engineer
RLC Administrator

To create an approval rule:

In Work Center, click the user icon in the upper right of the page, and then select Manage Data.
In the Table field, select RLC Approval Rules.
Click Submit.
Tip: If you want to see if a particular rule already exists, select any filters needed to limit results and click Search.
Enter a title and description.
Select Approval Type as follows:
- Release Approval: Generate approvals for release trains.
- Environment Approval: Generate approvals for deployable release trains and release packages upon requesting deployment into an environment.
Select other required fields, using tooltips as needed to understand the options.
Click Submit.

Note:

Deployment Approval Rules can also be added in environments. See Adding Approval Rules from Environments.
For Environment Approvals you can specify if deployment dates are required. Deployment dates define a period when you can start deployments into an environment. If a schedule is required, but dates are not specified, auto-generated approvals are rejected automatically. See Scheduling into Environments.

Searching for Approval Rules

If there are many approval rules, you can search for the one you want.

To search for an approval rule:

In Work Center, click the user icon in the upper right of the page, and then select Manage Data.
In the Table field, select RLC Approval Rules.
Fill out the search criteria.
Click Search.