Processing approval requests

Approval Central is the primary console for the users of Approval Server. Approval Central is designed for process administrators and approvers, and perform the following activities:

  • Searching for approval requests by specifying certain criteria
  • Viewing approval request details
  • Approving or rejecting requests
  • Putting requests on hold
  • Defining alternate approvers
  • Reassigning a request to another approver
  • Creating or responding to More Information requests

Related topics

Approval-Central

Process administrators use Approval Central to override approvers when necessary. Approvers also use Approval Central when they act as alternates for other approvers. 

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The following topics provide information about how approvers use Approval Central to process approval requests, how approvers and process administrators specify alternate approvers, and how process administrators carry out approval overrides:

Task

Reference

Search for specific approval requests. Manage and respond to approval requests.

Request more information and respond to More Information requests.

Assign alternate approvers to approve requests at times when you are unavailable to manage the approval requests.

Move through an approval process when the regular approver has not responded by overriding that approver.

 

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