Add Approvers Group

The groups listed under the Approvers 1 section, under Level 1 are the initial approvers in a workflow.

Before you begin

Specify the workflow details to create a workflow.

About this task

You cannot save a workflow in Approval Cockpit without adding the Approvers 1 section. All additionally added approver sections can be deleted from a workflow.

Procedure

  1. In the Create New Workflow page, under the Approvers 1 section, select Add.
    The Add Alternative Approver Groups screen appears with a list of group names.
  2. Select the check box for the groups you want to assign as approvers to the workflow.
  3. Select Add.
    The selected groups are listed under the Approvers 1 section. The workflow process requires any one group among the selected groups to provide their approval.
  4. To add additional approver sections in the same level, select Add New Approver Group, and repeat steps 2 and 3 to add approvers.
    Every additional section in the same level is incrementally labeled. For example, Approvers 2, Approvers 3, etc. The sections are added with an AND operator implying that the approval workflow must pass through all the approver sections in the given order.
  5. Select Save.
    The workflow configuration is saved.

What to do next

You have the option to add a monitoring group, rejection responding group, or an escalation responding group to your workflow.