Compliance Glossary for Confluence

How do reviewers sign off a frozen baseline?

Open the completed baseline in Terminology Baseline, enter Your role and an optional Statement, and select Sign this baseline. The app records the account, role, statement, time and a fingerprint of the frozen content. Signoffs lists every record. Each signoff is an in-app attestation, not a qualified electronic signature (eIDAS).

Last verified against production v6 · 14 October 2026
Baselines panel with the current baseline, baseline package downloads and one signoff by the Head of Compliance
A completed baseline with its package downloads and signoffs. Staging demo data.

At a glance

InputActionOutputLimit
Completed baselineEnter Your role (required, up to 80 characters)Signoff formSigning opens only when the freeze is complete
Optional statementAdd a Statement (up to 500 characters), select Sign this baselineSignoff with time and content fingerprintOne signoff per person per baseline
Several reviewersEach signs in their own accountSignoffs list with role, name, date and statementUp to 100 signoffs per baseline
Frozen content changed laterThe app compares the stored fingerprintNote: frozen content changed since this signatureThe earlier signoff stays visible with that note

How it works

  1. Open Apps → Compliance Glossary → Terminology Baseline and select the baseline.
  2. Wait until the freeze is complete. Until then the page shows: Signing opens when the baseline freeze is complete.
  3. Review Baseline evidence report and Changed since baseline.
  4. Under Signoffs, enter Your role, for example QA or Functional safety.
  5. Add an optional Statement, for example Approved for release 4.2.
  6. Select Sign this baseline. The page confirms: You have signed this baseline.
  7. Ask every other required reviewer to sign in their own account.

Example

Before release 4.2, the QA lead and the regulatory lead both review the frozen baseline. Each signs with their role and the statement Approved for release 4.2. The baseline package then carries both signoffs with times and the content fingerprint.

What this does not mean

A signoff records an in-app review. It is not a qualified or advanced electronic signature, a release approval in another system, or proof that the content is correct. Release approval and electronic signatures stay in your QMS or signature tool.

Related questions

Next step

Decide which roles must sign each baseline, then ask them to sign before you export the baseline package.

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Verification basis: production v6 code, tests, and manifest. Verified 14 October 2026.