A newer document is not automatically approved

Start with the information you work with.

Discuss file formats, ownership and the handoff your team needs for a useful first cycle.

30 minutes · Demonstration data · No project upload required

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0:00 / Revision two has arrived. Is it ready?

Revision two of the marine works inspection plan arrived on the sixteenth of September. It is newer than revision one. Newer is not the same as approved, and on a marine works site that difference matters.

0:14 / Identity first.

Start with identity: document number, project and revision. Two documents can share a title. Only the number and the revision tell you which one you are holding.

0:25 / One search to the register.

Getting there is one search away. Type documents, and the workspace opens the register for the whole program.

0:32 / Find the record.

Search for inspection and the record appears: marine works inspection plan, Harbor Renewal, revision two, pending review, due the twenty second of September, owned by Taylor Reed.

0:45 / Version and status answer different questions.

The revision says which version this is. The status says where it sits in the review: pending, approved, superseded. Check both before anyone works to it.

0:56 / The handoff stays connected.

Received on the sixteenth, in technical review, decision to be recorded: the register keeps the handoff connected, with Taylor Reed named as the document controller, so a question has an owner.

1:09 / Check first. Then use the right information.

Identity, revision, status. Three checks before anyone works to a document, and the register keeps all three in one row. Know sooner. Act faster.