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Creating a Request Approval Policy

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Administrators can set up an approval policy to determine how requests created by users are submitted for approval. If you do not create an approval policy for a request type, requests of that type will not require approval.

TO CREATE A request APPROVAL POLICY:

  1. In the Approval Policy section of the Create request Type screen, select Define Approval Policy.
    Additional fields display.
  2. To enable routing of the request approval, select Routing Enabled.
  3. Specify how requests of this type should be approved:
  4. If the request can be approved by any of the approvers, select Approval by Any Selected Members.
     
  5. If the request must be approved by all the listed approvers, select Approval by All Selected Members.
     
  1. Specify what, if any, notifications should be sent regarding the request:
  2. If approvers should be notified when a request of this type has been submitted, select Notify approvers when request has been submitted.
     
  3. If the request owner should be notified when a request of this type has been approved, select Notify owner when request has been approved.
     
  4. If the request owner should be notified if a request of this type has been rejected, select Notify owner when request has been rejected.
     
  1. Type the notification message that should be sent in the Message text box.
  2. Click Save to save the approval policy for the request type.