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Learn how to Approve, Cancel or Reject Pending Approval Requests from the Entity Data Entry page |
What are Approval Requests
Approval Requests are requests that are automatically triggered through effective /wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008787 added on /wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008785Approval Definitions added on Workflow Rules. Approval Requests are created in a 'Pending' Life Cycle State and a set of users defined in the Authorised Users section of the /wiki/spaces/WIP/pages/10008787 are responsible to Reject, Cancel or Approve them.
Approval Requests can be created for the following entities:
- Activities
- Jobs
- Service Requests
- Subscription
Approved Requests enable editing of the entity on the request, as long as the entity does not have any other 'Pending' Approval Requests.
Approval Requests can be managed from a dedicated screen found under FOUNDATION > WORKFLOWS > SET UP AND MANAGE APPROVALS > MANAGE APPROVAL REQUESTS and processed following the steps as provided in the respective manuals.
Rejecting the Managing Approval Requests
Cancelling Approval RequestsApproving Approval RequestsApproval Requests They can also be handled from the entity's Data Entry page. For example, if a Service Request has 'Pending' approvals that need to be processed, it can it can be processed by processed by using the respective action on action on the Service Requests Data Entry page.
Validations & Restrictions
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| Approve | - The Approval Request is in a 'Pending' Life Cycle LifeCycle State
- The logged in user is in the Authorised Users section
- The user has not processed another Approval Request triggered from the same process. i.e. If 2 Approval Requests have been created for Creating a new Activity, then 2 different users must process each one
| Approving Approval Requests, will make the entity editable as long as it has no other 'Pending' requests |
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| Cancel | - The Approval Request is in a 'Pending' Life Cycle State
- The logged in user is in the Authorised Users section
- The user has not processed another Approval Request triggered from the same process. i.e. If 2 Approval Requests have been created for Creating a new Activity, then 2 different users must process each one
| Cancelling Approval Requests, will make the entity editable as long as it has no other 'Pending' requests |
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| Reject | - The Approval Request is in a 'Pending' Life Cycle State
- The logged in user is in the Authorised Users section
- The user has not processed another Approval Request triggered from the same process. i.e. If 2 Approval Requests have been created for Creating a new Activity, then 2 different users must process each one
| Rejecting Approval Requests, will make the entity editable as long as it has no other 'Pending' requests |
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Managing Approval Requests from the Entity's page
- Navigate to the entity with the 'Pending' requests
- Search for the entity you want to modify
- Click on the number/name of the entity to go to its Data Entry page
- From the Action Menu click on one of the actions below:
- PENDING (X) APPROVALS > APPROVE
- PENDING (X) APPROVALS > REJECT
- PENDING (X) APPROVALS > CANCEL
- According to the action selected refer to the respective manual for a description of the next steps
Viewing Approval Requests on the Entity
If Approval Requests are available for an entity then these will be available:
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in the Data Entry screen of the entity. | Status |
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| colour | Green |
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| title | Available from CRM.COM R10.0.0 |
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in the View History tab of the entity
There are 4 subsections:
- Pending Requests
- Approved Requests
- Rejected Requests
- Cancelled Requests