Enhanced interface

Field descriptions: Approval delegates

The following table describes each field on the Manage delegates page.

Users who are restricted to one or more entities, departments, or territories cannot be named approvers. They do not appear in the dropdown list of default delegates, in the table showing the approvers, or in the dropdown list of delegates on this page.

Manage delegates field descriptions
Field	Description
Default delegate	Only users with Approve GL transaction permissions appear in the list. The default delegate you select serves 2 purposes: To facilitate populating the delegates for each approver in the table. When you initially set up delegation, the system pre-populates the delegate for each approver in the table with the default delegate. If you do not change the approver's delegate from the pre-populated default and then change the default delegate, that approver's delegate changes to the new default delegate. To serve as the delegate for any new approver (a user who is later given approve purchase transaction permission), and the new approver's delegate is not changed.
Approver	Read-only. All users with approve purchase transaction permission appears in the table.
Delegate	A user who can approve on behalf of the approver. Only users with approve GL transactions permission appear in the list. When the approver turns on out-of-office approval delegation, approval requests are immediately rerouted to the delegate. The delegate remains the approver of a delegated transaction even after the approver turns off out-of-office approval delegation.