3.7 Approval Stages

Each document may have single or multiple approvers. Where multiple approvals are required, the approval plan will define if just one of the approval recipients or all of the approvers are required to approve before the document progresses through the workflow. If just ‘one of many’ approval is required, after the first approver has taken action, the document will be removed from the To Do list of the remaining approvers.

Approval steps can also either be in serial or parallel to other workflow tasks. If your approval task is in parallel to others tasks this means that these tasks are being performed at the same time as your action. If your approval task is a serial task this means that all future tasks are subsequent to your approval action.

If you elect to reject or return a document during the approval process it will be sent back to the requisitioner for them to undertake a required course of action. If the requisitioner subsequently retransmits the document, it will be sent for approval once more and enter the approval plan from the beginning.