After submitting a new blog status is still "Draft"

[RiccardoEscher]

6 days ago I created my first blog; after finishing the edit I selected the radio button Status -> Ready for Approval and pressed the button "Submit".

I got a window telling me:

one moment please...
click the link below if the page doesn't refresh
https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/cs/junior/view/wlg/15438

After some waiting without refresh I clicked on the offered link.

The result is a view of my blog, some offered functions like "Delete Display Search View" and in a new line "Edit"

The next line tells "Approval Status: Ready for Approval".

Now I am waiting and waiting and waiting. In the mean time I have written a second blog, same result.

When I have a look at "Your Posts" I get a list with my two blogs with a very strange status combination. They have two status columns, one named "Status" tells my blogs are still "Draft", the next column named "Approval Status" tells my blogs are "Ready for Approval".

So what?

I have the impression that something is wrong and in my feeling the Status shouldn't be "Draft" but something else, but I don't find any chance to change it.

It's a pity, because next friday I will go in holiday, so I will not be able to answer to possible comments.

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

>I have the impression that something is wrong and in my feeling the Status shouldn't be "Draft" but something else, but I don't find any chance to change it.

Both are in Review stage and They are with Ready For Approval Status. So Don't worry..

Please wait for some more time, Concern moderators will review and process accordingly.

[RiccardoEscher · Accepted solution]

Ok, I am a little bit tranquilized.

It is a little bit confusing when you have a workflow with two parallel status and one of these status has the value "Draft" and the other tells "Review", you don't know which status is the main one the other workflow participants see.

Suggestions (I apologize if it is already in some Wiki, but I didn't find it):

- Wouldn't it be helpful to publish a little table with the workflow steps and their different status combinations and who is expected to do what?

- Wouldn't it be nice if you publish also a time frame table with some hints on how long one can/should wait for a reaction before beginning to yell (I have searched for it; if I would have found one and read Please wait for two weeks, II would have waited patiently two weeks (I am an experienced sapnet user ).

Thanks in advance

Riccardo Escher

Edited by: Riccardo Escher on Aug 19, 2009 1:51 PM