Working with the Approvals Assistant

You can use the Financial Consolidation and Close Approvals Assistant to retrieve approval unit status and to perform approval actions.

The Approvals Assistant provides a workflow for users to work with approval units using natural language, including updating the approval status for their assigned approval units.

It is packaged as a downloadable ZIP file on the Downloads page. Extracting the ZIP file provides access to these files:

  • FCCS_APPROVALS_AGENT.json

  • FCCS_CURRENTPOV_AGENT.json

  • FCCS_APPROVALS_AGENT_APP.json

These Approval actions are available from the Approvals Assistant:

  • Retrieve all approval units for a specified Scenario, Year, and Period

  • Retrieve only my (user-specific) approval units for a specified Scenario, Year, and Period

  • Get approval unit status for the specified Scenario, Year, Period and Entity.

  • Retrieve approval details for a specified approval unit, including status, ownership and action information

  • View all available actions for an approval unit for the specified Scenario, Year, Period and Entity.

  • Perform individual actions such as Lock, Unlock, Start, Submit, Promote and Approve for an approval unit.

  • Perform approval actions across a range of periods or phases

  • Check the status of approval jobs using a job ID

See Approvals Assistant Usecase Examples and Prompts.