Understanding Delegation

Absence Management uses delegation to enable one person to authorize another to serve as his or her representative when working with absence transactions. A manager can delegate their tasks of approving time, entering employee time, or entering their own time to another person due to workload or their own absence from the office. An employee can delegate the entering of his or her time to another person while away from the office.

Delegation Terminology

The following terms are important to understanding the delegation feature:

• Delegation: The act of giving one's authority to another user.

• Delegator: A person that delegates authority to another user.

• Proxy: A person granted authority to act on behalf of another user.

• Delegated Authority: The rights and privileges that are given from the delegator to the proxy.

• Delegation Request: A request from the delegator to the proxy to take on delegated authority.

• Delegation Period: The time range in which the delegated authority is in effect.

• Delegation Administrator: The system administrator who is responsible for configuring, managing, and maintaining delegated authorities.

• Revoke: When a delegator withdraws delegated authority.