Approve a Record in Approval Center

After employees submit records such as timesheets and expense reports for approval, an approver can approve them in Approval Center.

Records must be approved only if your system administrator has enabled approvals for a record type. The different record types include timesheets, line items from timesheets, expense reports, line items from expense reports, and absence requests.

To approve a record that an employee has submitted:

1. In the Navigation pane, go to the My Stuff section and select Approval Center.
2. On the Approval Center form, select the record type, such as Timesheets, from the Approval Center drop-down menu. The selected records display in the grid.
3. If you selected Expense Lines or Timesheet Lines from the menu, you can filter your approvals for one project at a time. This field displays only for expense line or timesheet line approvals. Click next to Showing All Projects to open the Project Filter dialog box where you can specify the projects to display in the grid.
4. If you have the appropriate access rights, you can select the Show All Pending and Complete check box to display all records across companies and employees that are in Approval, In Progress, and Completed states.
5. Review and approve records by performing any of the following:

   • To approve a single record, click Action Required in the Approval Action column and select Approve from the drop-down list.

   • To approve multiple records, select the check boxes of approval records you want to approve and select Approve Selected from the Actions drop-down menu.

   • To approve all records, select Approve All from the Actions drop-down menu.

     Warning: This action approves all the records you are assigned to approve, not just the records currently shown in the grid.

   If the approval action cannot be applied to one or more of the records involved, a message displays with an explanation.

6. Enter a comment in the Approve dialog box and click Approve to close the dialog box and continue. The comment is saved to all the records you approved if you approved multiple timesheets.