Approval Lineage

Approval is a point-in-time judgement about a specific artefact under specific conditions. Lineage records those conditions, which is what makes an old approval meaningful — an answer approved two years ago was approved against source documents and rules that may since have changed, and without lineage nobody can tell whether the approval still holds. The question an auditor asks is rarely whether something was approved but whether the approval is still valid, and that is only answerable if the state at approval time was captured.

Because content, prompts and skills all carry version history in the organization's own environment, an approval in Centralpoint can be tied to the versions in force when it was granted. When a source record changes, the derived answers approved against its earlier version are identifiable rather than assumed still current.