Approval Task


  1. Purpose 

  • Approvers will review the document and choose to approve or route back to the review step at this stage.

  1. Visible sections

Sections

Visible

Editable

Identification Details

✔

❌

Draft Attachment

✔

❌

Review Log

✔

❌

Hard/Printed Copy Distribution List

✔

❌

Related Document

✔

❌

Training

✔

✔

Approved Attachments

✔

❌


  1. Routing


  • Please refer to the diagram in the Overview section to see an end-to-end workflow.

  • The document can either be routed forward to Approved step or backward to Review step. 


  1. Entering Approval Task 

  • Approval task is entered once the document review is finished.

  • A notification email will be sent to Approvers when entering the Approval task.

  1. Submitting the Approval task

  • Submitting Review Task will follow the standard routing process. Please refer to the routing process in the introduction module of this guide for more details.

  • If there are multiple approvers, only one approver needs to sign the document to route the document to the approved task. 

  • Any required training shall be triggered once the document is approved. 

  • All documents in the Draft Attachment section shall be moved under Approved Attachment once the document is approved. 

  • If the Draft task's attached file is docx, doc or csv and Convert to PDF after Approval ? checkbox under Draft Attachment section was checked, these files shall be automatically converted to PDF.  Otherwise, the attached file will remain its original file type.
  • If Add Signatory Page to PDF after approval? checkbox under Draft Attachment section was checked, then a signatory page shall be added as the cover page to the approved pdf document. 


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