Managing approvals

In BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline, an approver is a resource to which individual user IDs can connect via your security product.

A set is a temporary collection of tasks that make up a project, work package, or change request.

As a Code Pipeline approver, you can perform the following tasks on the Approvals page:

Examine a set and associated tasks
Take necessary action before signing the tasks off
Perform allied Code Pipeline lifecycle functions

Related topics

Getting-started

Accessing-and-navigating-Code-Pipeline-Web

Managing-tasks

Managing-deployments

Important

To use Code Pipeline Web, you must first add an active host connection to connect to the BMC AMI DevX Code Pipeline mainframe product. For more information, see Using-a-host-connection-to-access-Code-Pipeline-web.

When you click Code Pipeline from the CES landing page, the Approvals page in Code Pipeline web is displayed listing all approvals in the Code Pipeline system and their statuses. The table on this page includes the following details for each set:

Application or system that the container is associated with
Code Pipeline set that the approval request was created for
Group or role of which a user is a part to move modules through the lifecycle
User ID of the person who created the container
Overall status of the approval
Status of the set
Level structure and other rules about the application definition

On the Approvals page, you can perform the following actions:

Purpose	Action
View and manage tasks within a set	Click a set ID in the relevant row. For more information, see Managing-tasks.
Approve a specific approval	Click Approve in the relevant row.
Deny an approval	Click Deny in the relevant row.
Reset an approval	Click Reset in the relevant row.
View detailed information for a set	Click View in the relevant row. The Set Information dialog box is displayed. To exit the dialog box and return to the Approvals page, click Close.
Move the column in the sequence	Hover over a column header, click, and move the column as required.
Refresh the contents of the Approvals table	Click Refresh from the table options at the top.
Copy all the contents of the Approvals table	Click Copy to clipboard from the table options at the top. If the Approvals table is empty, this option is disabled.
Print the contents of the Approvals table	Click Print from the table options at the top.
Export the contents of the Approvals table to a CSV or PDF file	Click and select one of these options: Click to export the list as a CSV file. Click to export the list as a PDF file. If the Approvals table is empty, this option is disabled.
Show or hide columns to be displayed in the Approvals table	Click and select the columns from the list that you want to view. Clear the check box for columns that you want to hide.
Filter a list of approvals based on the Set ID or Description column	In the Filter field, specify filter criteria.
Filter a list of approvals based on the values in the column	Click Filter under a column, and type or select the values under that column by which you want to filter and view the approvals list. Clear the check box for values that you want to hide.
Sort the order in a column	Click in the column header.
Sort the order in multiple columns	Perform the following steps: Click in the column header in a column. To select more columns, perform one of the following options: Press the Ctrl (or Command) key and click the sort arrow in the required column headers. Click in the required column headers. For each selected column, go to the menu, select Ascending or Descending, and select a Sort order. When you select a sort order, the column header displays a number to indicate the priority of the column in the sort sequence. The direction of the sort arrow indicates if the column is sorted in the ascending or descending order. Thus, the table displays values sorted by column, one after the other, such that the previous sort order is not distorted by the next sort order. From the options, you can also perform the following actions: Change or swap the Sort order as required. Remove a column from the multi-sort sequence by selecting Remove from current sort. Remove all sorting by selecting Clear all sorting.
Specify the number of approvals visible on the Approvals page	Click Records per page at the bottom of the table and select a number.

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