Change control reviews

Once you've built and tested your changes, it's time to request a review. Select View changes in the upper right of the storyboard. This opens a modal that visualizes your changes on a per-action basis, making it easy to see exactly what's different.

UI location to view story changes.

Within this modal, you can:

  • Review all changes you've made.

  • Add a name for your change request.

  • Provide details in the description field explaining what changed and why.

When you're ready, select Request review. At this point, a notification is sent within the Tines UI and to any configured change control webhook.

🖐️ Try this: Request a change control review 

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Review changes 

Once a review is requested, the approval process begins. By default, change requests can be approved by editors, team admins, or users with the custom permissions change control: review or change control: manage.

🖐️ Try this: Approve a change request 

Story owner approvals: For added security, you can restrict approvals to story owners only. To enable this, assign a story owner to the workflow and turn on the Change request approval toggle. Once enabled, only a story owner can disable this setting.

To review a change request, navigate to the draft and select View request. The modal shows all requested changes with helpful toggles:

  • Show storyboard: Displays a visual of each changed action in the storyboard (on by default).

  • Show positional changes: Includes changes to action positions, which are purely visual and don't affect functionality (off by default).

  • Show only changes: Displays only the elements that changed within each action (on by default).

After reviewing, the approver can reject, approve, or cancel the request. A notification is sent for each action taken.

Separation of duties: Tenant owners can require that the person approving a change must be different from the person who requested it. This separation of duties is a common compliance requirement. Team admins can bypass this requirement in emergency situations, but doing so triggers a notification to the change control webhook.

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