Allow requirement of unanimous "pre-approval" of ECO before work

[skotzur]

In our organization it would be beneficial to require multiple people to ALL pre-approve the change. Sometimes an administrator will not have the full picture and allowing them to unilaterally move the ECO to open results in work being done that is eventually rejected in the review stage, not because the work was bad but because the ECO was flawed. Having multiple sets of eyes "pre-approve" the work would be beneficial.

One possible solution would be to have a check box (similar to the unanimous approval check box that already exists) that requires unanimous approval from all approvers and one administrator to move the ECO from "open" to "work".

It could also have one more option in which it is required that at least one approver and one administrator is required to move the ECO from "open" to "work". If you were to add this option obviously it would need to be configured more like a set of radio buttons where only one of the options could be selected.

[dvsmiller9]

This sounds a bit like the traditional ECR to ECN/ECO workflow where a change board would review the change and decide if it was cost effective/rational/etc before proceeding.  If we had configurable ECO workflows this could be done. 

We do this now by shoehorning it into an almost duplicate process using the change order environment but labeling them as ECR-xxxxxx and not actually changing anything (just capturing the documents, rationale, justification, approvals). If we had configurable workflows, we could convert ECRs into ECNs/ECOs without the duplicate data entry. I understand both Solidworks PDM and Aras Innovator have configurable workflows built in.