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Setup Approval Workflow

Approval Overview

If you use approvals for Risk Assessments, and a Risk Assessment is approved by all approvers, the status on the Risk Assessment is automatically updated to "Released". If approvers reject a request for approval, the Risk Assessment status automatically reverts to "Open", in that case you must resubmit the Risk Assessment for approval when the conditions that caused the rejection have been met.

The approval process for a Risk Assessment may include one or more reviewers, but it must include at least one approver.

Reviewers and approvers must be set up as Safe Work Users and have the permission set for DAMSW Manager in their user permission setup.

There are two ways you can work with Risk Assessment approval:

  1. Default Risk Assessment Approval Setup. If no approval setup is made on a Risk Assessment, and the standard approval workflow is enabled, the Risk Assessment automatically uses the default approval setup. This approach is useful if your company wants to use one - consistent - approval process. This is done to ensure that you always have the same employees perform tasks related to review and approval of Risk Assessments.
  2. Approval Setup on one Risk Assessment. On a selected Risk Assessment, you can add approvers, and also reviewers if required. An approval setup on a Risk Assessment takes precedence over the default Risk Assessment approval setup.

Set Up Approval Workflow for Risk Assessments

Workflow setup is optional on Risk Assessments. It is used to send a Risk Assessment for approval and get the Risk Assessment approved by one or more approvers.

Workflow is part of standard D365BC functionality, and we added a "Risk Assessment" workflow to be used for working with the approvals for Risk Assessments.

To learn more about the general use of workflows in standard D365BC, refer to Microsoft documentation:

Refer to the test cases below for step-by-step procedures on

  1. creating a workflow template
  2. setting up a workflow for risk assessment approval

The screenshot below shows the standard setup of the "Risk Assessment" approval workflow after you have set it up, as described in the test cases. The workflow is ready to use, but you can edit it, if required. On your role center, you can search for and select Workflows, which opens a list. You can select and open "Risk Assessment" from that list.

Risk Assessment Workflow
Risk Assessment Workflow

Default Risk Assessment Approval Setup

As described above, you can set up a list of default approvers for Risk Assessments. This means that if you have not added reviewers or approvers on a Risk Assessment, the default approval setup is automatically applied to the Risk Assessment.

Refer to the test case below for step-by-step instructions on how to set up default approval for Risk Assessments.

Setting Up Default Approvers for Risk Assessment

Data Requirements

  1. At least one user is set up as a Safe Work User and has permission set "DAMSW MANAGER" in the user permission setup.

Steps 5

  1. On your role center, search for and select Safe Work Setup.

  2. Select Default Risk Assessment Approval Setup in the ribbon.

  3. Select the user in the User Name field in the empty row.

  4. Select the role (reviewer or approver) for the selected user in the Approval Role field.

    Note: At least one Approver must be set up.

  5. Repeat steps 3-4 for each new approver or reviewer you want to add.

Expected

The user can set up Default Risk Assessment Approval.

This setup is automatically used on a Risk Assessment if approval workflow is enabled, and if there is no approval setup on the Risk Assessment.

Approval Setup on One Risk Assessment

Instead of using the default risk assessment approval setup described above, you can set up Risk Assessment approval on a Risk Assessment record.

If you set up approval on a Risk Assessment, that setup takes precedence over the default approval setup.

To create an approval setup on a Risk Assessment

  1. On your role center, search for and select the Risk Assessments list.
  2. Open a Risk Assessment card.
  3. Select Related > Approval Setup in the ribbon.
  4. Follow steps 3-5 in the test case above, describing the default approval setup.

Creating a Workflow Template

Steps 4

  1. On your role center, search for and select Safe Work Setup.

  2. Select Create Workflow Templates in the ribbon.

  3. Select Yes.

  4. Select OK.

Expected

The user created the Risk Assessment Workflow Template - to be used in the next test case.

Setting Up a Workflow for Risk Assessment Approval

Data Requirements

  1. A Workflow Template from Safe Work Setup is created.
  2. The Workflow for Risk Assessment is not used (disabled).

Steps 4

  1. On your role center, search for and select Workflows.

  2. In the Workflows list, select New > New Workflow from Template.

  3. In the Maintenance group, select Risk Assessment.

  4. On the workflow card, activate the Enabled toggle button (shown in green color when activated) to use the workflow.

Expected

The user can create a workflow to be used for Risk Assessment Approval.

Note: If, at some point, you want to deactivate the Risk Assessment workflow because it should no longer be used, then you deactivate the Enabled toggle button described in step 4.

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