Approving Release Items

You can approve Approval items from release trains, application releases, and the Approvals application. Depending on your role and privileges, you may not have all the choices available. Typically, you should approve items from the release train. You should approve milestones tied directly to an application release from that application release.

Some users may only be approvers, and may only have the Approvals application in their Release Manager Release Mgmt application group. Those users must approve using the Approvals application.

Information on how to approve is given in the following sections:

Approving Release Approval Items

Approving Milestone and Stage Gate Items

Approving Release Approval Items

For Release Approvals, the action Ready for Approval must be done before you see the options to complete or reject the item. This is typically done by the Release Manager. After the item is ready for approval, an approver for each level of approval must approve or otherwise action the item.

Ready for Approval

To make the Release Approval item ready for approval:

From a release train, from the Approvals tab, click Ready for Approval in the Actions list.
From a release train, from the Approvals tab, open the item you want to action. Click More to select from other options, and then click Ready for Approval.
From the Approvals application, from the list of items, open the item you want to action. Click More to select from other options, and then click Ready for Approval.

Approval

To approve Release Approval items, or otherwise take action on them, you can do one of the following:

For the initial Train Approval, in the release train, click Submit.
For other Release Approval items:
- From a release train, from the Approvals tab, click Approve, Reject, Override, Update, or Delete in the Actions list.
- From a release train, from the Approvals tab, open the item you want to action and click Approve, Reject, or Update. Click More to select from other options.
- From the Approvals application, from the list of items, open the item you want to action and click Approve, Reject, or Update. Click More to select from other options.

Overrides

When you choose to override an approval, the following options are available:

Types of override:
- Approve for another user
- Add/Remove an approver
- Move to next level of approval
- Reject approval
Select users to approve for
Override Reasons

Approving Milestone and Stage Gate Items

To confirm milestones or stage gate exit criteria are complete, or otherwise take action on them, you can do one of the following:

From a release train, from the appropriate tab, Milestones or Stage Gates, click Complete, Reject, Update, or Delete in the Actions list.
From a release train, from the appropriate tab, Milestones or Stage Gates, open the item you want to action and click Complete, Reject, or Update. Click More to select from other options.
From an application release, from the Milestones tab, open the item you want to action and click Complete, Reject, or Update. Click More to select from other options.
From the Approvals application, from the list of items, open the item you want to action and click Complete, Reject, or Update. Click More to select from other options.