Compliance with ASME requirements of Revision History Table and Approval Indicator
Version: Windchill 12.1
Use Case: per ASME Y14.35, Section 6.1.5 the "APPROVED" column of the Revision History table is defined as: "Authorized signature(s), name, or approval indicator, as required, shall be entered to indicate approval of the change(s) made to the drawing." When working offline with paper copy, this was traditionally a signature by the engineer reviewing the drawing to signify it had been approved. While working within a PDM system however, the approval is done electronically through a Windchill Workflow, and so this field has a disconnect. Windchill locks the state of the drawing after the engineer approves it, but in order to add the signature of the engineer to the drawing it would have to be modified post approval - which is not allowed by users but if done automatically through a workflow would be acceptable. What my company would like to do is to have is the live and automatic linking of the "approval indicator" (does not need to be a signature or name, could be nearly anything indicating it has been approved) on the published drawing after the ECA of "Approve Drawing" has completed.
Description:
Compliance with the ASME standard while in a Windchill environment seems difficult to manage. We need to show approval on the field of the drawing, but can not modify a drawing once approved as that runs counter intuitive to the review process.
How do we get an indicator to appear in the revision history table automatically upon the Change Management Workflow task completion?
