APPROVER_TYPE is used to identify the type of approver that is assigned to the approval process.
X_APPROVER_TYPE is a fixed lexicon with the following values:
| Saved Value | Displayed Value | |
|---|---|---|
| 01 | Department Manager | An employee who is identified on the department (IDDP) as the `Dept. Supervisor' or Manager- Person Code. |
| 02 | Position Manager | An employee who is identified on the position (IDPS) as the `Supervisor by' or Classification-Manager. |
| 03 | Assignment Manager | An employee who is identified on the assignment (IEAS) the employee as Service-Supervised By. |
| 04 | First Manager | |
| 05 | User with Match | A specific employee who is identified under Last, First. |
| 06 | Manager | Currently not supported. |
| 07 | Specified Person | A specific employee who is identified in the IEID form. |
| 08 | Spec List Of People | This identifies multiple people who qualify to be approvers. Note: Only People Lists that are defined through Personality can only used in this selection. People Lists are cased on Where Clauses. |
| 09 | Last Approver's Manager | |
| 10 | All Managers | If an employee has multiple managers the ‘All Managers’ option will allow anyone of the managers to approve. For example, Fred is the employee’s Position manager, James is the Assignment manager, and Sheila is the Department manager. If using ‘All Managers’ anyone of the three can approve |
| 12 | Owner | The Owner is the person who is the employee who the approval entity is for. Eg. If a timesheet is being approved, the employee for the timesheet becomes the approver. This is typically used for managers to send a timesheet back to an employee for changes after it is entered the approval process. |
| 14 | Prime First Manager | This is used to focus on the prime assignment of the employee for the approval entity and find its first manager as the approver. |
| 16 | PA_First_Manager | This approver type is used ONLY for Personnel Actions with Assignment details as in PEAS and not supported for other PA TYPES. It finds the first manager using the PA values for easd.EID_ID_SUPERVISED_BY, easd.DPS_ID and easd.DDP_ID. The manager found becomes the approver and appropriate approval records are created. The three mentioned columns are mandatory and must be included/displayed in the PA form. |
| 17 | Creator | The Creator is the person who inserted the approval entity - Taken from the audit column CREATE_USER. The 'creator' is the user who inserted the approval record. The creator will either be the IMUS user or the Person Code when created in Self Service. If this Approver Type=Creator is used in Admin, it is a mandatory requirement that the IMUS user have a Person Code associated to it. |
