DMC adds to Confluence 2 new macros, which are:

• Current Version Approvals and Signatures

• All Versions Approvals and Signatures

Approvals and signatures - Current Version Approvals and Signatures

To insert this macro in a Confluence page, type “/Current Version Approvals and Signatures” where you want it to appear. This creates a table with those columns:

• State/Approval Name

• Action - the type of modification

• By - the person that has caused the modification

• Date time of the change

• Comment - that is written by the owner of the change

The only modifications that appear on the table are : Change State, Approved and Rejected. The assignments and assignments of the documents are not shown here.

NB : Once a modification of the document has been carried out, the lines of this table will disappear. In other words, the Approvals and signatures macro only shows status modifications from the last update.

DMC Page History - All Versions Approvals and Signatures

To insert this macro in a Confluence page, type “All Versions Approvals and Signatures” where you want it to appear. This creates a table that is similar to the page history available when clicking on “DMC history” (to know more about it, please check this link : Check the EDMS history).

Note as well that the actions that are shown on this table are “Changed State”, “Approved” and “Rejected”. “Assigned” and “Unassigned” do not appear.

The differences between the 2 macros

You may have noticed that the 2 macros have some similarities. Nonetheless, each of them has its own particularities. Here they are :

• The DMC page history shows more lines, i.e. more status modifications. Indeed, all the modifications keep being stored, whereas the Approvals and signatures macro only shows status modifications from the last update.

• The DMC page history shows more columns:

  • The Confluence version of the document

  • The DMC version of the document

In some way, Approvals and signatures summarizes the DMC page history.