What are the Status values in Workflow Mode?

Answer Statuses are enabled when a Respondent chooses the option to "Enable Workflow". This enables a team working on a response to force questions to be reviewed and approved before they can be submitted. The following statuses are employed:

Answers can only be viewed by the Buyer / Evaluator once the Response has been Submitted. It is only possible to Submit a Response when all answer are in Approved status.

A typical workflow for a given question might be as follows. Bob is an analyst writing answers. Alice is a supervisor reviewing answers:

• Bob saves an answer to question 2.14, but is not ready to have this answer reviewed (Status: Answered)
• Bob edits his answer, and indicates that it is ready to be reviewed (Status: For Approval)
• Alice reads the answer, but doesn't like it, so rejects it (Status: Rejected). She writes in a comment against the question describing why it was unsatisfactory.
• Bob reads Alice's comment, and amends his previous answer. Again, he sets the status to For Review
• Alice reads the answer, and this time approves it (Status Approved)

N.B. When Workflow is enabled, it is not possible for a respondent to submit their questionnaire response to a supplier until the status of all questions is Approved.

Users with different permissions can perform different status transitions.