4.6.4 Authorize Load Group Characteristics Maintenance

This topic provides the systematic instructions to authorize load group characteristics maintenance.

An unauthorized Load Group Characteristics Maintenance must be authorized in the system for it to be processed. Authorize a record as follows:

1. Start the Group Characteristics Summary screen from the Browser.
2. Select the status of the record that you want to retrieve for authorization. Typically, choose the Unauthorized option.
3. Specify any or all of the details and click Search button.
   All records with the specified details that are pending authorization are retrieved and displayed in the screen.
4. Double-click the record that you wish to authorize.
   The Group Characteristics Detail screen is displayed.
5. Select Authorize operation from the Action List.
   When a checker authorizes a record, details of validation, if any, that were overridden by the maker of the record during the Save operation are displayed. If any of these overrides results in an error, the checker must reject the record.