About Approval Policies

CentraSite's approval-management framework enables you to review a request and approve or reject the request when certain time events occur in the registry. For example, you might require a system architect to review and approve all assets before they are switched to a productive state.

To impose an approval process on a change time event, you create an approval policy for the event. An approval policy is a policy that contains one of CentraSite's built-in approval actions.

Note:

In this guide, the term approval policy is used to generally refer to policies that you use to perform approvals. Technically speaking, an approval policy is no different than an ordinary design/change-time policy. It is simply one that includes an approval action. An approval policy can also include other actions (assuming they are within the policy's scope).

By default, predefined policies are not displayed by CentraSite Control. To view predefined policies, you must enable the Show Predefined Policies option on the Design/Change-Time Policy page.

Policy	For information about this policy
User Registration	See The User Registration Policies.
Consumer Onboarding	See The Consumer Onboarding Policies.
Access Key Generation	See API Key Generation Policy.
Access Key Renewal	See API Key Renewal Policy.
Access Key Revocation	See API Key Revocation Policy.
Publish to API-Portal	See Publish to API-Portal Policy.
UnPublish from API-Portal	See Unpublish from API-Portal Policy.

CentraSite provides the following actions for obtaining approvals. To impose an approval process on an event, you include one of these actions in your policy.

Action Name	Description
Initiate Approval	This action submits a request to a designated group of approvers (referred to as the approval group). For information about using this action, see Using the Initiate Approval Action.
Initiate Group-dependent Approval	This action submits a request to the approval group only if the requestor belongs to a specified user group. For information about using this action, see Using the Initiate Group-Dependent Approval Action.