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Project Approval Managers

Owned by Smadoa GmbH
Last updated: Oct 23, 2019 by Jiraplugins Smadoa

Here you define one or more user/s who can approve work logs for this project (approval managers or pprovers). They automatically get all permissions required to perform the approval process in the Reporting section of ictime.

How it Works

For general information on the approval feature, please refer to Approval. For information on approving work logs, please refer to Approve Work Logs.

To use approval,

  • the feature needs to be activated gobally (see General Configuration)
  • at least one user needs to be selected as approval manager for each project.

Approval can't be activated/deactivated on project level. If approval is in place, it applies to all projects.

Assign/Unassign Users for Approval (Approval Managers)

Go to

ictime - Administration - Project Configuration

Edit a project and click on the tab "Approval"  (see Project List).

Assign Approvers

If approval is globally enabled, at least one user needs to be selected as approval manager for each project.

FieldDescriptionRemarks
User

Simply start to type in the user and the user picker will provide suggestions to pick from.

Permissions

A user assigned as approval manager gets access to the Reporting interface with the following limitations:

  • can only select projects where user is assigned as approval manager (we are not checking JIRA "Browse Project" permissions for the approver, so the approver might get access to work logs from projects where he/she has no project access in JIRA - this is intended as the approver does not need to be a project team member to approve work logs)
  • gets access to users assigned to the project and their work logs (independent from the "Log work for others" permission)
  • can only approve work logs, no other functionality available.

All JIRA users will be available here, it is not required that a user has "browse project" permissions in JIRA to be available as approval manager.

Full reporting permissions

As explained above, approvers get limited access to the Reporting screen. If you want to give your approval manager/s full reporting permissions (access to all projects and all operations on the Reporting screen; see ictime Permissions), check this checkbox.

  • "full reporting" permission can be used to allow specific users to create / edit work logs even if this is not allowed for others (see Misceallaneous for details) 

Remove Approvers

Select one or more users and click on "Unassign". Users won't be entiteld to approve work logs for this project any longer.