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, select My Stuff > 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. To filter approvals by project for expense lines or timesheet lines, click next to Showing All Projects to open the Project Filter dialog box and use it to 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 actions:

   To approve	Description
   A single record	Click Action Required in the Approval Action column and select Approve from the drop-down list.
   Multiple records	Select the check boxes of the approval records that you want to approve and select Approve Selected from the Actions drop-down menu.
   All records	Select Approve All from the Actions drop-down menu. Warning: This action approves all the records that 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, an explanatory message displays.
6. Enter a comment on the Approve dialog box and click Approve to close the dialog box and continue. If you approved multiple timesheets, the comment is saved to all the records that you approved.