digitally approve

Another priceless addition that could enhance the www collaberation is the option / addition of digitally aproving phases/confirming dates/ approving and freezing stage of document. Eelectronic signature is another term .  For example one of the project tasks is Designe review approval - or approval of the new release after testing and review, review could be done and signed online.

Great suggestion! We do have request/approval management in the works. Does your company have any special requirements for digital signatures and approvals? For example, in the US sometimes you have to enter in the last 4 digits of your social security number for a digital signature to be valid.

Our requirements are flexible - it would nice to have a password with a some kind of hash code including a time stamp and version/revision.

Would each user have their own approval password, or would a specific approval password be set for each request?

The approval process has built in dependencies - the process would need the ability to see who approved and when therefore each person would have his own password or ID - once approved the next person would be able either to approve or to work on the item.

Makes sense, thanks!

We at Avid would also like digital approval for phased gates and other deliverable based tasks.

I know that "part 11" FDA compliance requires a password for digital signatures. In some cases it is required to be a different password than what is used to login to the system. This could be set up as optional or required in the Admin.

I can see an approval as another entity similar to a task, but with an order of approvals (person A must approve, followed by person B, followed by person C, etc.) and with the option of having a digital signature required for each person that needs to approve, which like John mentioned could be something different than the account login. I think this is a great idea, and hopefully other customers will chime in and say they want to see a formal approval process!