Approval process and publishing a document

Hi,
i have two tiers of approval for my folder and how does someone approve the contents,i mean how does the folder passes on to next tier for approval and how is it finally published?
how can the published contents be made visible for readers?
Thanks in advance,
jules

Hi,
First, you have to active Status Management Service (statemngt)in your repository, after that you have to restart portal.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/69/d96b86a84611d5993600508b6b8b11/frameset.htm
Then in your folder, details->setting->approval->you define step and approvers.
All document store in this folder will use the same approval process.
When a user approve a document, this documet is publish.
In this folder you save your documets, all user with read (only) permission, will see this document once is approved.
If you create KM Navigation iview to point this folder, the only documents visibles (by user with only read permission) will be approved.
Patricio.
> Hi,
> i have two tiers of approval for my folder and how
> how does someone approve the contents,i mean how
> does the folder passes on to next tier for approval
> and how is it finally published?
> how can the published contents be made visible for
> readers?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> jules

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