Work-In-Progress Statuses for Approval Steps

The federal work-in-progress (WIP) management system works in tandem with approval processing to automate the tracking and processing of personnel action requests as they move through the steps of the approval process. Each transaction is configured to use specific WIP statuses at each stage of the approval process.

Because the Approval Framework is a generic workflow approval engine, additional setup outside of the framework is necessary so that you can associate federal work-in-progress statuses with approval steps. The setup for manager self-service transactions is the same as the setup for employee transactions.

Note:

When associating WIP statuses with approval steps, you manually set up the steps that represent your approval processing steps. If you modify the delivered approval process, take care to keep these step definitions in sync with the Approval Framework process definitions.