About Approval Unit Hierarchies

An approval unit hierarchy contains approval units and entities that are part of the review process.

Parent/child relationships between approval unit hierarchy members affect the review process:

• When you promote or reject a parent, its children are promoted or rejected unless they are Approved. The owner for the parent becomes the owner of the children.

• When you approve a parent, its children are approved.

• After all children are promoted to the same owner, the parent is promoted to the owner.

• When the status of all children changes to one status, for example Signed Off, parent status changes to the same status.

You can't change the status of a parent if its children have different owners. If the children are promoted to, submitted to, or signed off by different users, the parent has no owner and only a Service Administrators can change its status.