Home Tab

The PECS Home tab is the first page you will see after  you have successfully completed Login. The appearance of the home tab is Role-specific; What appears on the page is different depending on the Role associated with your login credentials.

Home Tab - Requestor Role

Welcome and Update Information

The Welcome and Update Information section displays the current user's account name and the dates of the last FDB-DIF Update and the last Custom Update

User Account and Update Informatoin.

Home Tab by Role

Requestor Role

In addition to the Home tab, users with the Requestor role see the following tabs on their Home page:

Requestor Home Tab

The following information is displayed on the Requestor Home tab:

Approver Role

In addition to the Home tab, users with the Approver role see the following tabs on their Home page:

Home Tab - Approver

The following information is displayed on the Approver Home tab:

Release Manager Role

In addition to the Home tab, users with the Release Manager role see the following tabs on their Home page:

Release Manager Home tab

Administrator Role

In addition to the Home tab, users with the Administrator role see the following tabs on their Home page:

Administrator Home tab

Additional Home Tab Details

High-level VA Approval Workflow Explanation

VA Customization records are created by Requestors or Approvers and at creation are given an Action Status value of "New". They can be updated after creation and if so, will systematically have their Action Status value set to "Modified". A new or modified customization record can be either "Rejected" or "Reviewed". An Approver must be the one to actually review the record and mark it as "Reviewed". Once a VA customization record is reviewed, a second/different Approver must also review the record and can then mark it as "Approved".

After the point of approval, the VA customization can go on to be Modified after the approval and then Reviewed after the approval. Or they can be Delete reviewed and then Deleted after the approval. After the point of deletion, they can go on to be Modified or Reviewed after the Delete and then subsequently, can be Approved again.

Once a VA customization is "Approved" it is included in the custom update file generated from PECS and sent to the National PECS database for dissemination out to the field. Once a VA customization is "Deleted" it is included in the custom update file generated from PECS and sent to the National PECS database for dissemination out to the field and marked as such in their local PECS instances, so users know the VA customization is not to be used (as its Approval was revoked).

See Workflow for additional information.

My Request History

Active customization records created by the logged in user (Requestor and Approver roles only). The results will be broken down into numbers of active records, created by the logged in user by the following Action Statuses: New, Modified, Reviewed, Approved, Rejected, Deleted and All.

New The count is the number of active records in the "New" status created by the logged in user.
Modified The count is the number of active records in the ""Modified" status created by the logged in user.
Reviewed The count is the number of active records in the "Reviewed" and "Delete Reviewed" status created by the logged in user.
Approved The count is the number of active records in the "Approved" status created by the logged in user.
Rejected The count is the number of active records in the "Rejected" status created by the logged in user.
Deleted The count is the number of active records in the "Deleted" status created by the logged in user.
All The count is the number of all active records in any status, created by the logged in user.

My Assigned Requests for Review

Active customization records assigned to the logged in user to be reviewed. The Awaiting review count is the number of records that are in the "New" or "Modified" status, that have been assigned to the logged in user. This section will only be displayed for users in the Approver role.

My Assigned Requests for Approval

Active customization records assigned to the logged in user to be approved. These records have been "reviewed" by another "Approver" in the system. This section will only be displayed for users in the Approver role.

My Assigned Requests for Deletion

Active customization records assigned to the logged in user to be deleted. The records have been "delete reviewed" by another "Approver" in the system. This section will only be displayed for users in the Approver role.

Unassigned Requests

Active customization records in the approval process that have not yet been assigned to any user. These records may be in the Action Status of New, Modified, or Reviewed. This section will only be displayed for users in the Approver role.

All Requests

All active customization records currently in the system by status. The result detail will display the active records associated with the selected custom table summary. The categories are:

New The count is the number of active records in the "New" status.
Modified The count is the number of active records in the ""Modified" status.
Reviewed The count is the number of active records in the "Reviewed" and "Delete Reviewed" status.
Approved The count is the number of active records in the "Approved" status.
Rejected The count is the number of active records in the "Rejected" status.
Deleted The count is the number of active records in the "Deleted" status.
All The count is the number of all active records, by status. This is NOT a link, just informational