4. Change Approval: Technical Reference

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Enterprise And Point Bridge Points

When:

Procedure

  1. A source project that contains a point is:
    • Configured with an Enterprise point and Change Approval
    • Added as remote project in Enterprise server,
  2. A setpoint is performed on Enterprise or Point Bridge points in the Enterprise server.

    Then:

    Change approval:

  3. Validation is performed against the source project configuration (source project users, roles and resources).
  4. Audit trail is created in the Source project.
    Important: Unsigned writes option must not be selected for a point configured with Enterprise points.

    Download passwords

    Important: While doing a setpoint on the point in a project that is configured with DownLoad password If a point is:
    Configured with change approval Download password checking does not occur.
    Not configured with change approval Download password checking occurs as usual

    Change Approval License

    A Change Approval license is a server based license; whenever setpoint is performed from clients running either on a Viewer or the server, if change approval license is present:

    • Change Approval dialog boxes will open.
    • Change Approval will create an audit trail

    If the CIMPLICITY server does not include a Change Approval license, Change Approval configuration for points will be ignored. Runtime setpoints will succeed without the required Change Approval credentials.