Documents being erroneously approved on insert

Question

I have a process that inserts hundreds or thousands of documents a day into a WSS 2.0 site. Recently a developer who is no longer employed with us made a change to enable some approval functionality if an item meets certain criteria - that worked.

However a side effect of a change I've yet to uncover is that now all documents inserted into the site are approved upon insert. I've removed the code that he had added, but something else is still affecting the approval status.

The Time stamp on the file meta data for creation and last modified is exactly the same, so I know that it's not a process running after insertion doing this. The code that is inserting the file has no approval of any sort in it.

I'm thinking there has to be some sort of setting or permission in WSS 2.0 that approves a file upon insertion. Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

While I'm still unclear what exactly was auto approving documents upon insertion, removing the admin rights of the user doing the insertion immediately fixed the issue. I don't know if this was built in SP functionality or some other code that runs concurrently with the insert, but as the approvals happen at the exact time of insertion, or the documents are inserted approved already, I'm leaning towards built in SP functionality for documents inserted by an Administrator.

Please comment if you disagree. I would like to have a definitive understanding, even after fixing the issue.