7.1 Requesting Approval

After updating the report details, they must be validated. The Regulatory Report Details page allows you to submit a report for approval. You can assess the report details and can either Approve, Close, or Reject the report. For more information on user roles, see Table 5.

You can initiate the Request for Approval action only when the report is in the Open/Rejected/Rejected from e-file status.

For example, an Analyst user updates the report details and submits the report for approval. The Supervisor user verifies the report and either Approves, Closes, or Rejects the report.

To submit a report for approval, follow these steps:

1. On the Regulatory Report Details page, click Request for Approval. The Request for Approval Action window is displayed.

   NOTE

   If there is mandatory information that is missing or information that is in some way invalid for the report submission, you will receive warnings to correct the information before requesting the approval. If there are no errors detected, the Request for Approval Action window displays.

   If the report size is more than 60 MB, the following message is displayed: The report contents exceeded the efile size limit. Please reduce report contents before proceeding further.

2. Enter the comments in the Action window. You can enter a maximum of 120 characters.
3. Click Save. The following message displays: Update Operation Successful.
4. Click Clear to clear the data in the Action window and click Close to close the Action window. The report audit details display.

   NOTE

   The Regulatory Report Action section in the Audit tab displays the comments added in the Request for Approval Action window.

5. If you click Save without entering the comments in the Request for Approval Action pop-up window, the following message displays: Mandatory fields are not entered.

NOTE

Super User and Supervisor users can edit a report in the Request for Approval status before approving it.