How do quorum approvals work?

After you create a quorum group in Data Management, any operation that is controlled by the quorum group requires approval from the group's users or approvers for execution. In other words, after a Data Management user initiates an operation that is covered by a quorum group, it will not run immediately. Instead, a request for approval of that operation is sent to the approvers in the quorum group, where the approvers are asked to either approve or reject the request. It is also possible that approvers fail to act on a request on time.

Quorum-protected operations run when the approval request receives the minimum number of approvals that are configured in the quorum group. This might be as few as a single approval or as much as unanimous approval, which can be every approver that is defined in the quorum group must approve. When the requested operation reaches the approval threshold that is defined in the quorum group (within a defined time limit), the requested operation is run immediately.

Similarly, it is possible that enough approvers will explicitly reject a requested operation, and then it is no longer possible to reach the minimum approval threshold. In that case, the operation will be rejected and set to not run.

It is also possible that some approvers fail to act, where the approvers neither approve nor reject a requested operation within the time limit that is defined in the quorum group. In that case, the operation will be auto-approved or auto-denied after the time limit that is set in the approval workflow settings of the quorum group.