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 Approval Framework is necessary so that you can associated federal work in progress statuses with approval steps.
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.