About the Sign Off Phase Process
The goal of the sign off phase is to gather final approvals from your key stakeholders. Stakeholders review finalized content and then sign off on or reject the report. All prior authoring and review phases must be complete, and all doclets must be checked in and completed as well. The sign off phase enables you to lock your report and ensures that approved content is not modified. This is beneficial for reports that rely on content to be locked down and to prevent changes.
The sign off phase follows this process: