Recurring Automated Approvals

Back in ActiveControl 7.0, automated ‘Exception-based’ approval capability was added to ActiveControl. This feature allowed Transport Forms to be automatically approved in a defined control point location, if the Analysers ran and found no issues. That said, the original design meant that if the Analysers did find an issue, the Transport Forms would stop for a manual approval – and never be re-considered in that same control point location for Auto-approval.

Since ActiveControl 7.0, a couple of Customers fedback that they would like enhanced capability so that Transport Forms that initially failed an Automated Approval would be reconsidered again for Automated Approval when the process ran again.

As such, ActiveControl 8.50 (and indeed 8.40.N cumulative patch) introduces this capability.

Configuration Steps

More information on the configuration and use of this capability can be found in this online Change Note.

! When using this capability, it should only be run periodically (eg ever 30 minutes or less frequently) and with a small number of Analysers configured to run in that control point location (and not the more system-intensive analysers such as Deep Impact Analysis, Test Impact Radar or Conflict Analysis). There could be adverse performance impacts in the Domain Controller from running recurring Automated Approvals more frequently.