Defining Approval Steps in STMS

Hi,
I've defined the STMS QA Approval Procedure, and today I'm using the approval step "Approved by system administrator", where such users need special authorization values to approve requests in QA (S_CTS_ADMI with TADM and TQAS). Someone can help me to identify the difference between the approval steps "Approved by user department" and "Approved by system administrator"? Is the difference only related to required authorization values?
Regards
Alex

Activating the "approved by department" means that it is "sufficient" to perform the QA approval step with authorization value QTEA.
TADM also still works for system admins (e.g. basis guys in client 000, etc...) so you will need to take away this stronger authorization for the more granular control to be available for the users who are to be limited to it.
Typically, this is the QA department, who typically do procedural type of checks, and typically don´t have anything to do with tp...
What was wrong with the "request owner"? Too complicated? User´s changing the owner?
If I remember correctly, you cannot remove the system admin check - you need to remove the access.
Cheers,
Julius

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