Published page with Comala loses approval after a task is marked as done. How to deal with this?

[Erik Boelen]

I use Confluence in combination with Comala Document Management for my QMS.

A lot of documents are approved and then published.

But when a page contains tasks (e.g. a Management Review report), the page can be approved, but as soon as you mark a task as done, the approval is lost. An auditor expects to see approved pages.

I don't want to make the page go through re-approval each time a task is done, the reviewers would go crazy!

So what would be a good way to work with (or around) this? E.g. keep tasks out of the page and add them to a child page? Mark the tasks "done" only when they are all done, so it requires only 1x re-approval?

Other suggestions?

[Matteo Gubellini _SoftComply_]

Hi Erik.

For Confluence ticking a box or completing a task is considered a change in the content, and Comala behaves accordingly.

You can either lists tasks in a subpage and then include (use the include excerpt macro) this into the main page, of "freeze" the content of the page (it will show incomplete tasks, but this was the case when the doc was approved)

Matteo