Understanding Approvals

Many daily tasks are part of a larger process that involves several steps and people working together, such as the approval of a promotion. To facilitate this type of multiuser process, PeopleSoft provides approvals functionality, which enables you to automatically trigger workflow notifications to inform the next approver in the process of pending transactions.

Many PeopleSoft applications are delivered with predefined approval processes. However, these topics provide the PeopleSoft HCM product line specifics of the Approval Framework functionality. While this document lists the HCM navigation and additional topics specific to setting up HCM Approval Framework, more detailed overviews and field descriptions are documented in the companion documentation PeopleSoft Approval Framework.

Note:

Oracle PeopleSoft delivers Notification Composer Framework to manage the setup and administration of all notifications in one central location.

Once you have adopted the Notification Composer feature, you must use it to create new notifications and manage your existing notifications.

Notifications delivered with HCM Image 47 or later must use Notification Composer.

For more information about Notification Composer Framework, see Enterprise Components: Understanding Notification Composer.