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Users cannot request your catalog item until you entitle them to the service or the item. See Creating an
Entitlement.
Approvals Overview
Any catalog request, whether it is for a new catalog item or to perform an action on a provisioned item,
can be subject to approval.
A tenant administrator or business group manager can associate an approval policy with any service,
catalog item, or action as part of entitling the items or actions to users.
A tenant administrator or an approval administrator can create approval policies. Each approval policy
has an approval policy type that determines to what requests that policy can apply. For example, you can
apply some policies only to new catalog item requests, or requests for a specific type of item. You can
apply other policies only to post-provisioning actions or to a specific action on provisioned items.
Each approval policy has at least one phase and each phase can have one or more levels.
An approval level represents a single step in a business process. For example, an approval policy can
have one level for manager approval, followed by a level for finance approval. An approval level can be
designated as always required or required based on certain conditions. The available conditions can vary
depending on the approval policy type. For example, an approval policy for virtual machine requests can
be conditional based on the number of CPUs in the machine request.
Each level specifies one or more approvers. If a level has multiple approvers, the policy can specify
whether all the approvers must approve the request to complete the level, or any one of the approvers
can complete the level. If any approver rejects the request, then the entire request is rejected.
For each approval level, you can specify attributes that an approver can edit when completing the
approval. For example, in an approval level for IT to review a machine request, they might be able to
update the requested CPU, memory, or storage specifications. The approvers must determine that the
requested specifications are not appropriate for the proposed use of the machine.
An approval phase is a sequence of approval levels associated with a particular stage in the request. The
approval policy type defines how many phases a policy has and which stage in a request triggers a
particular approval phase. For example, an approval policy can define the following phases:
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A preprovisioning approval phase must be complete before provisioning a requested item
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A postprovisioning phase occurs after the item is already provisioned but before it is released to the
owner
An approval policy in the Draft status can be edited but after it is activated, it becomes read-only. A policy
with an Inactive status is also read-only.
Create an Approval Policy
Tenant administrators and approval administrators can define approval policies and use them in
entitlements. You can set up the approval policies with multiple levels for pre- and post-approval events.
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