Add an Approval Process

The approval process is the collection of approvers and approval levels. Each approval process consists of all the levels that a requisition or leave request must travel through on its journey from submitted to approved.

An approval may contain one or multiple levels.

A requisition or leave request has only one process.

Add an approval process

Use this feature to create approval processes and add approval levels to the processes .

  1. Select Approval Process, then Approval Process from the Administration menu, and the Approval Process window opens.

  2. Click the Add button, and the Approval Process Details window opens.

  3. Enter a Title for the approval process. Note: Give it a different name from any of the approval levels and approvers.  

  4. Optional. Enter a Description to make it easier to differentiate if you have many approval processes.

  5. Click the Enabled button to make this process available.

  6. Click Save, and the record is saved.

  7. Add Approval Levels for this process.

  8. Repeat step 7 as needed until you've added all approval levels you want in this process.

  9. Rearrange the order of the approval levels as needed. The level with Approval Order #1 will be the first to approve the request;  #2 will be second, and so on.

 

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