Re: [ubl-psc] Question about DocumentStatus and DocumentStatusRequest

[Jon Bosak <bosak@pinax.com>]

Thanks, Roberto!

If no one objects, I'll just put "Any" in the process, submitter,
and receiver fields.

Jon

Roberto Cisternino wrote:
> I imagine that the DocumentStatus is very useful to inform about the
> status of business documents that cannot be updated on the road (e.g. the
> invoice) due to integrity requirements.
> 
> For instance the approval workflow required for issuing, bookkeeping,
> payment, storage are all providing a status.
> 
> The life-cycle of a document produces some additional status that can be
> expressed here.
> 
> As the DocumentStatus and the DocumentStatusRequest are associated to any
> Process I believe that could apply to any Actor as well.
> 
> So my suggestion is to indicate that any Actor involved in the life-cycle
> of the document can be acting as the sender and/or receiver.
> 
> The document life-cycle processes are not limited to the original trade
> process but could be related to archiving, bookkeping, so on...
> 
> Roberto
> 
>> Hello PSC and TSC,
>>
>> A question has arisen regarding two of the entries in the table of
>> UBL document types, DocumentStatus and DocumentStatusRequest.  The
>> current version of the table lists these, incorrectly, as related
>> to Tendering, but in fact they appear to have come from the BII
>> ePrior project.  We think that the purpose was to get the status
>> of a sent Invoice, but it seems that the documents can be used
>> with other processes as well.
>>
>> Currently these table entries are as follows:
>>
>>     <row>
>>        <entry align="left">Document Status</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">A document used to provide information
>>           about document status.</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">Tendering</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">Contracting Authority</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">Tenderer</entry>
>>     </row>
>>     <row>
>>        <entry align="left">Document Status Request</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">A document used to request the status
>>           of another document.</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">Tendering</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">Tenderer</entry>
>>        <entry align="left">Contracting Authority</entry>
>>     </row>
>>
>> It appears that the descriptions are OK, but we need new entries
>> for Processes Involved, Submitter Role, and Receiver Role.
>> Please advise.
>>
>> Jon
>>
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