Transfer of Authority

You must create approval routes to specify the persons responsible for approving an order. You might include a specific person on several approval routes if the person is responsible for approving all orders that exceed a specific amount.

You can transfer approval authority from one person to another. You might do this if a person leaves the company or takes an extended vacation. When you transfer approval authority, the system permanently changes all approval routes on which the person currently exists.

You should not transfer authority from one person on a route to another person who is lower on the route. However, when you transfer authority from one person on a route to a person who has just been added to the route, the system redirects pending approvals to the new individual, but does not resend electronic mail messages.

(Release 9.2 Update) When the approval authority is transferred to another person, the system redirects the orders pending approval to the new approver with notification mails containing a link to the Approval Review program (P43081). The version of the P43081 program is specified in the Versions tab of the Work with Approval Level Revisions program (P43008).