Request Approval

If all designated approvers approve the request, the following processes occur:

  • The workflow completes and the workflow status is updated to Request Approved
  • An email notification of request approval is sent to a workflow initiator and to a proposed author if the initiator is not the author
  • The audit log for the request list item is updated to include an eApproval entry which has a description stating Document electronically approved by user_id with the comment user’s comments at date and time of approval. There will be one entry for each approved task.
  • The document is created in the working documents library, assigned with a document number and renamed to that document number.
  • The audit log of the document is updated with an entry that has an event type of RequestId and a description that states Document created from New Document Request Workflow with Request ID request id.
  • The lifecycle status of the document is set to Draft and its workflow status is set to Document Created From New Document Request
  • The Approved Document Number column for the request item in the new document request list is updated with the newly created document’s name
Tip: If the approval request is created from a file (uploaded in Smart Document), the file is used to create the document in the working documents library.