Maintaining Acceptance Action Information

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Adding a New Acceptance Action

An acceptance action establishes what samples, tests, or field inspections are required for the acceptance and approval of a material or material category. It may include multiple options, each with one or more rate/frequencies, such as one daily work report per contract, or three slumps test per 50 cubic yards installed, or one certification per source used, and so on. The Acceptance Actions Overview contains a list of all the acceptance actions recorded in the system.

To access the overview, click the Acceptance Actions link in the Materials component.

You can locate an acceptance action by typing criteria in the Quick Find search box. You can also enter a value in the Record Type field to filter the list of actions according to type of associated data. The system displays rows of acceptance actions that match your criteria.

Each row includes an Actions button and read-only values in these fields:

To view or change additional information for an acceptance action, click the Acceptance Action link on the appropriate row. The Acceptance Action Summary component contains all of the information for an acceptance action. See Maintaining Acceptance Actions.

Adding a New Acceptance Action

An Acceptance Actions tab is available on the Summary component for materials and material categories. To create a new acceptance action, go to the summary for the appropriate entity, click the Acceptance Actions tab, and click New. For example, if you want to create a new acceptance action for a material category, go to the Material Category Summary, click the Acceptance Actions tab, and then click the New button.

See one of the following topics as appropriate for the entity you are working with: Maintaining Acceptance Actions for a Material, Maintaining Acceptance Actions for a Material Category, Maintaining Acceptance Actions for an Item, and Maintaining Acceptance Actions for an Item Family.