Document Status not changing when document approval procedure in SOLAR01/02

Question

Here is my situation:
We created and assigned a Status Schema for Solution Manager Document and to that status assigned a signature strategy. We have defined the following end results  for the signature strategy, when the process is initiated:
   FROM               TO
Copy_editing -> in_progress
In_progress ->  Reviewed
Reviewed -> Released
We initiate the process and the author performs the first signature, so the outcome expected is for the strategy to change the status from copy_editing into in_progress so on and so forth.
This is not happening and the document stays in copy editing throughout the approval process.
Any ideas? I can provide the complete configuration done in order to see if we missed something.

Answer 1

are you using digital signature? Yes we are using Digital Signature since we want to have the correct approval once a document is loaded and reviewed.
In case not, you do not have to create a signature strategy, but only an approval scheme.
Did you assign the approval scheme to a document type? Yes we have.
What happens, if a user tries to changes the status using the document attributes? currently it doesnt allow you to manually change it once the document is saved but this is what happens in detail.
1. I load the document into solman.
2. based on the digital signature and doc strategy the Author needs to Sign the document once the save button has been clicked.
3. The strategy defined states that the document will start as copy_editing and when singed it will go into in_progress.
This is not happening.
When I load the document I can actually change the status as always as I dont save the same.
Here is the document Strategy configuration we have set:
Status              init    Seq low   high    Dig Sig               End stat                     Cancelled stat
COPY_EDITING      X      10 10     20     ZTECHENT     IN_PROGRESS         COPY_EDITING
IN_PROGRESS      X      20 10     30     ZTECHAPP     REVIEW                  IN_PROGRESS
REVIEW              X      30 20     40     ZTECHAPP       RELEASED          REVIEW
RELEASED      X      40 30     40                          RELEASED