Authority Manager Tutorial
Introduction
  What is the Workflow Project?
Changes to PeopleSoft
  Identifying Approvers
The Worklist Manager
  Sorting and Finding
  The Transaction Summary
A Few Details...
Getting Help
Summary

The Transaction Summary

The Transaction Summary shows you who is scheduled to approve this transaction or receive an FYI. It also shows a summary of information included in the PeopleSoft transaction. From within the Transaction Summary screen, you may take action on this transaction.

Worklist Home Returns you to the My Pending Items worklist.
Quick Summary A little summary of data to help orient you in this transaction.
Help Takes you to a special help page for originators.
End Session Logs you out of the Worklist Manager and checks in any items you reviewed but did not take action on.
Approval Schedule

The Approval Schedule shows who is scheduled to approve this transaction and who will receive an FYI. Anyone who has the same role and sequence is in a group. Only one person from the group needs to take action on the transaction. This is the same approval schedule that the approvers will see.

In this Approval Schedule...
Richard and Nilda have the same role and the same sequence, therefore only one of them needs to take action to approve this transaction for the Position Approver Role. Next, an email is sent to Ammy since she is the next person in sequence. Ammy must take action since she is the only person with her approval role and sequence. Since Ammy is the last approver role on the transaction, the three FYI recipients will receive their email notifications after Ammy approves the transaction. Eileen does not need to take any action and will not receive any emails because she is the super-approver.
Super-Approver Every transaction gets a super-approver. The super-approver does not take any action on a normal transaction, but is assigned to every transaction so that if something happens to the scheduled approvers and the transaction must be immediately approved, the super-approver can step in and approver the transaction fully in one step.

Action buttons:
Recall
Decline

The originator has the power to recall or delete a transaction. These buttons are repeated again at the bottom of the Transaction Summary to enable you to take action there after reading the transaction summary.
Return to Worklist Returns you to the Worklist without taking any action on this transaction. This button behaves in exactly the same manner as the Worklist Home button above.

Transaction
Summary

The transaction summary contains all of the critical data related to this transaction as it was entered into PeopleSoft. This is the same summary that approvers will see.

Recall and Delete

As an originator, there are two actions you may take to pull a transaction back without approval.

Recall Removes the transaction from all approver's worklists and returns the transaction to PeopleSoft. You may then make changes and resubmit the transaction for approval.

Delete

Deletes the transaction from your worklist, any approver's worklists, and from the PeopleSoft staging tables.

These two actions are useful whenever there is a change in plans, when you notice a problem or typo in a pending transaction, or when you need to adjust the approver list. However, for most transactions, you will not use these actions. Click the Return to Worklist arrow or the Worklist Home button to go back to My Pending Items without taking action.

Now that you're familiar with the Worklist Manager, it's time to try it out. Click the interactive demonstation icon to begin.

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