When you create an application, you can select a validation account. During the Review process, when you try to promote, submit, approve, sign off, or publish the process unit, the system checks whether the account value in the Validation account equals zero or NODATA. If it does not, the system displays a message that it cannot perform the action.
If the application is set up to use phased submissions, you can set validation accounts for each submission phase.
When you promote, submit, approve, sign off, publish, or reject a process unit, the system also checks the data to ensure that it has an OK, OK SC, or NO DATA status. If the process unit does not have one of these statuses, you must recalculate, translate, or consolidate the data before you can perform any process management action.
The system also checks the process unit to see if the data is locked. You cannot perform any process management actions until the data is unlocked. You can only lock data when it is published. See Locking Data.
The process level of the parent entity must always be lower than or equal to all of its immediate children. The process level of the child entity must always be greater than or equal to all of its immediate parents.