The change document owner, project manager, or an assignee of an update action can enter the resolution of a change document. If a resolution is required for a change document, you must enter it before you can submit the change document for approval.

All change documents must be approved. Approval of a change document indicates that the approver has reviewed the change document and agrees with the defined impacts and the resolution. The approver for your change documents is the project manager, by default, but your implementation team may have the approver defined differently. If the approver rejects the change document resolution, the status is changed to Rejected and the change document must be reworked in order to be resubmitted it for approval.

A change document with open actions cannot be submitted for approval. In addition, change requests must be included in a change order before they can be closed. Once approved, you can implement the impacts of a change order and close the change order.