Expense Lines Grid of the Approval Center Form

Use the Expense Lines grid to perform approval workflow tasks for expense lines. You can reorder the columns already displayed in the grid by dragging the column header to a new location.

Contents

Field Description
Print Lines Approval Report Select this action to print the Expense Lines Approval report, on which you can display the details of outstanding line items for review and approval.
Selection Check Box

Select the row before applying actions from the grid toolbar.

Approval Action

This column displays the Action Required drop-down list for the record type. The options on this list are.

  • Approve: Select this option to approve the item. On the Approve dialog box, enter a comment and click OK. The approval process continues to the next step based on the configured approval workflow for the record. This option is available based on the state of the workflow.
  • Reject: Select this option to reject the item. On the Reject dialog box, enter a comment and click OK. Based on the configured approval workflow for the record, the record could be sent back to the employee who submitted it.

    The Reject action does not display if:

    • You make changes to a record while the workflow state is In Review.
    • If the Reject Action field is set to None on the Workflow tab of Approval Workflow Settings (Settings > Workflow > Approval Workflows in the desktop application) for an approval workflow .
    • You do not have the appropriate approvals workflow access rights, based on approvals workflow configuration
  • Reassign: Select this option to open the Change Assignment dialog box and assign an additional employee to the current approval step for the record or move the approval assignment from one approver to another employee. This option is available if the Allow Approvers to Reassign option is selected on the General tab of Approval Workflow Settings (Settings > Workflow > Approval Workflows in the desktop application). You must also be the approval administrator for the record's approval workflow.
  • Reopen: Select this option to push an approved record back to the last step of the approvals workflow. This option displays while you are viewing an approved record. This option is available if the Allow Employees to Reopen Closed Approval check box is selected on the General tab of Approval Workflow Settings in the desktop application.
My Action Required

This column displays the recommended action for the record based on the approval workflow.

Workflow State

This column displays the state of the record based on the approvals workflow. The possible workflow states are:

  • In Approval: This workflow state indicates that the approver may approve or reject the record during the approval process.
  • In Progress: This workflow state indicates that the approver may edit the record during the approval process.
  • In Review: This workflow state indicates that the approver reviews the record based on the action specified in the approval workflow step. The approval process may restart based from the review output.
  • Waiting: This workflow state indicates that the record is already in the approval process queue.

Workflow states differ per approval record type:

Approval Record Type Available Workflow States
Absence Requests
  • In Approval
Expense Lines

Timesheet Lines

  • In Approval
  • In Progress
  • Waiting
Expense Report and Timesheet
  • In Approval
  • In Progress
  • In Review
  • Waiting

To display records that have been completed, turn on the Show Completed Approvals toggle on the grid toolbar.

Step

This column displays the step number of the record based on the workflow configuration.

Employee Name

This column displays the name of the employee for the associated record.

Report Name This column displays the name of the report that the expense line is associated with.
Project Name This column displays the name of the project that the expense line is associated with.
Phase Name This column displays the name of the phase that the expense line is associated with.
Task Name This column displays the name of the task that the expense line is associated with.
Date This column displays the date on which the expense line was created.
Category This column displays the category name of the expense group that is associated with the expense line.
Description This column displays the description for the expense line.
Detail This column displays additional information on the expense line such as the expense date, the expense description, and the business reason for the expense.
Status This column displays the status of the expense line: Submitted, Approved, Rejected, and In Progress.

To display expense lines that have a Posted status, turn on the Show Completed Approvals toggle on the grid toolbar.

Task This column displays the acronym of the task name that the expense line is associated with.
Currency Code This column displays the currency code for the currency that was used to pay the expense item.
Amount This column displays the monetary amount of the expense item.
Billable This column displays a check box. If the check box is selected, the expense item is billable to the client.
Receipt This column displays a if a supporting document (file) was attached to the expense line item when the expense report was entered in My Stuff > Expense Report.
Company Name

This column displays the company associated with the request.

Employee

This column displays the employee number of the employee who is associated with the request.

Expense Report Group This column displays the Expense Report group that the employee for the line item can access. If you have multiple companies, the groups that display depend on the selected company.
Phase This column displays the phase number that the employee expense is associated with.
Project This column displays the project number the employee expense is associated with.
Click this icon to display the Approval Progress dialog box for the selected row. This displays at the right end of the row when you select it or hover over it.