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approval

An <approval> is a <relationship> that indicates that a <relationship> has been approved by a <possible_individual> that is an approver.
NOTE Care should be taken as to what is approved. Sometimes it will not be say a pump that is approved, but the participation of the pump in a particular <activity>, or member of some <class_of_activity>.
EXAMPLE The <involvement_by_reference> of a plant design with a construction activity, being approved by the site manager, is an example of an <approval>.

EXPRESS specification:

ENTITY approval
SUBTYPE OF ( relationship);
approved  :  relationship;
approver  :  possible_individual;
END_ENTITY;

Attribute definitions:

approved  :  The <relationship> that is approved in the <approval>.
approver  :  The <possible_individual> that is the approver in the <approval>.

References (1):

Name Type Referred through Express-G
relationship Entity
Subtype
Diagram 11

Inheritance graph

ENTITY approval;
ENTITY thing;
id  :  STRING;
record_copy_created  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
record_created  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
record_creator  :  OPTIONAL possible_individual;
record_logically_deleted  :  OPTIONAL representation_of_Gregorian_date_and_UTC_time;
why_deleted  :  OPTIONAL class_of_information_representation;
ENTITY abstract_object;
ENTITY relationship;
ENTITY approval;
approved  :  relationship;
approver  :  possible_individual;
END_ENTITY;