In the Approval Flows tab, the approvers for the employee can be set up.
Please see how to globally find and replace an existing approver at the bottom of the page.
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- Click on Admin.
- Click on Organizations to expand it.
- Click on Employee.
- Find the employee you want by either
- Entering either their first or last name in the search box at the top next to the magnifying glass and the word Reset.
- Click Enter to retrieve the results
- Entering search criteria in the Advanced Search on the right hand side of the screen.
- Click Apply
- Entering either their first or last name in the search box at the top next to the magnifying glass and the word Reset.
- Select the employee you want to set up approvers for.
- After you select an employee, you will see that you have various options to the left of that employee's information.
- Click on Approval Flows.
- Click on Add (by default, there will be a group with the user's ID, for example "JSMITH's Approval", and this group will be level 0).
- Enter the Level of the approval sequence. 0 being the first, 1 being the second, and so on.
- Click on Approvers Approvers to assign approvers.
- Click on Add to add an approver.
- Choose the approver(s) that you want and click OK
- Once the approver(s) is/are added, they are placed in a row under six columns. The columns are:
- Employee ID: This is where the employee's ID will be.
- Entry Type: This is what kind of entry they will be approving (Time, Expense, Time/Expense).
- Approval Right: This is what kind of approval rights that employee will have (Approve Only, Modify and Approve, Review Only).
- Approval Type: This is what kind of approval type it will be (Primary, Secondary, Both) E-Mail Option: This is the e-mail option (yes to e-mail, no to not get e-mail)Click Add.
- Employee ID - Search for Approver's Employee ID
- Click OK.
- Search for additional employees if desired and repeat the process.
- Entry Type field : Select Time/Expense if this approver will approve both timesheets and expense reports. Select Expense if this approver will approve only expense reports. Select Time if this approver will approve only timesheets.
- Approval Right field:
- Select Approve Only if this approver is to be allowed only to approve or reject employee timesheets and/or expense reports, not modify them.
- Select Modify and Approve if the approver is to be able to make changes and then approve the modified Timesheet or expense report.
- Select Review Only if the approver is to be able only to review timesheet data available to approvers, but not participate in the approval process (Review-only approvers must access timesheet data through the Time Printable Reports menu).
- Approval Type field:
- Select Primary if this approver is not allowed to approve his own timesheets and/or expense reports.
- Select Secondary if this approver is to only approve the work of the primary approver.
- Select Both if no approval restrictions are needed.
- Email Option field:
- Select Yes if this approver wants to receive email notifications when timesheets and/or expense reports are released.
- Select No if this approver does not want to receive email notifications. Email options and messages are configured under system options.
- Active: This is whether this approver is active or not.
- Set a minimum amount and a maximum amount if you want that particular approver group to have approval based on a certain amount range.
- Click Save. That user is now the approver for your employee
- By default this will show as Yes - Active
- Click Save.
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Global Find and Replace Approval:
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