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Status Under review
Workspace Apptio
Categories Apptio Planning
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 19, 2023

Finalizing a plan with unapproved Cost Objects

It appears that we are currently able to finalize a plan with unapproved Cost Objects (i.e. changes have been submitted by the end user but not yet approved by the CO Owner).  There may be instances where this is acceptable, but I would think from a standard operating perspective, we would want CO's to be fully approved before finalizing the plan.  Can we add a warning message that notifies the user if they are about to finalize a plan that has unapproved CO's?    Or if this is not a use case that we should allow, can we just not allow the plan to be finalized until all CO's are approved?