Approval of parent with unrelease children

Does anyone have a strategy or process in place that preventsa parent from being approved (reaching a certain state in workflow)if the child are not approved (at a certain state in workflow)? Iknow that PDMWE gives you a warning "file is in wrong state" if thechildren don't match, but is there anything more to this than justa warning? Please tell me there is just a simple option out therethat takes care of this. Thanks for the help.SolidworksSolidworks Pdm enterprise Pdm