The Approval Process begins as soon as an employee (or other person) "submits" a transaction. Approvals may be done in Professional or Self Service, by managers and/or administrators. Supervisors who log into the Manager Self-Service module can view and approve transactions initiated by their employees. Administrators who log into Professional or Self Service can view and approve transactions initiated by the employees they are authorized for.

Approval Processes#

The Approval Process definitions identify which transactions require approvals, the authorized approvers and the levels of approval required.

Approvals on Positions#

A user now has the option of having an approval process triggered on the position table when certain fields are changed.


Improvements to Approvals #

The approval functionality has recently undergone some improvements to make it more user friendly and compact. These changes will be included in the 4.07.00 and above releases of Wiki; they will not be included in the back ports. The new approval bar is only supported in Internet Explorer 7 and in Firefox, it is not supported in prior versions of IE. Some of the recent changes are:

Some of the recent changes are:

  • New approval bars in both Professional and Self Service interfaces
    • Redesigned to be more compact
    • Added a new approval information dialog
    • Added ability to quickly approve via a single click of a mouse
    • A pop up menu for approval actions is displayed when right mouse click on the approval bar
    • Added ability to display a list of previous comments made for each approval step
  • Context information of the record will show in place of the approval bar when an approval entity is not within the approval process
  • Changes were made to the Options available for an Approver
    • New option to allow or disallow the ability to decline
    • New option to allow or disallow the ability to send back an approval


Approval How To's#

Approval FAQs#

For a list of Approval Frequently Asked Questions see page FAQ-APPROVALS

Pages referencing Approvals#

*HOW TO APPROVE CANCEL TRAINING REQUEST
  • DPS_APPRVL_REQ
  • DRV_APPROVAL_COMMENTS
  • CLEANUP