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- VERA (when author exclusion is enabled) VERA will prevent authors from completing an approval task on a record where the user has authored a record and is assigned to one or more approval groups
- the records will be filtered out of the author's approval queue
- the approval and rejection links will not be available on the approval task detail page
- Author can be defined by a field value or by the user who routed the Test Case for approval
- The default Author(s) of a Run is a list of all testers from the execution logs and execution log steps in the run.
The Author field is configurable. For example, Actual Testers, Route Owner, or a field in the run.
The Author field can be a list of authors or testers
All authors in the Author field will be excluded from Approval if the route is configured for prevent Author Approval.
Email notifications are suppressed for authors if Author Exclusion is enabled for the route.
- The administrator can configure enforcing author exclusion in individual approval routes
- VERA will attempt to match author by in the source system to a VERA user
- if VERA does not find a matching user in VERA the author field will be populated with the source system username and marked as (Unknown)
- If Author doesn't exist the record can be withdrawn, a VERA user created and then record re-routed to enforce author exclusion.
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