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Designating Group News Approvers

The Group News approver workflow allows you to automatically send content from the creator to the first level approver, and then to the second level approver.

When setting up approvers, make sure that the number of approvers entered in the Approvers list equals the number of approvers required by the selected approver workflow. If you select fewer approvers than required by the approver workflow, the news story is not routed for approvals or published. If an administrator selects more approvers than required by the approver workflow, the news story is not routed to the extraneous approvers.

To select the group news approvers

  1. Create a Content Path record, using the procedure To create a content path.
  2. Create the stages for the content path, using the procedure To create the stages for the content path.
  3. In the Content Path list, select the record and click the Approvers view tab.
  4. In the Approvers list, add a new record, and then complete the fields.
    1. In the Position field, click the select button.
    2. In the Pick Position list, query for the employee you want to designate as an approver, select the employee, and then click OK.
    3. In the Sequence field, enter a sequence number for the approver.

      4. The sequence number indicates the order in which approvers approve the news story. The first approver has a sequence number of 1.

Repeat this procedure for each approver level in the selected workflow.

Modifying a Content Path to Change an Approver

You can modify a content path to change the associated approver.

To change an approver associated with a content path

  1. From the application-level menu, choose View > Site Map > Group News Administration > Content Path.
  2. In the Content Path list, query to find the content path you want to modify.
  3. Click the Approvers view tab.
  4. In the Approvers list, select the record of the approver you want to change.
  5. In the Position field, click the select button.
  6. In the Pick Position list, query for the employee you want to designate as an approver, and then click OK.
  7. In the Sequence field, enter a sequence number for the approver.

    8. The sequence number indicates the order in which approvers approve the news story. The first approver has a sequence number of 1.


 Siebel Employee Relationship Management Administration Guide 
 Published: 18 April 2003