Approving Multiple Tasks

You can approve or mark as complete multiple tasks at a time. You can open this page from the My Tasks page or from the Lifecycle/Review PowerView. If you open this page from the PowerView, all of the tasks and signature requirements are for the context object.

Before you begin: View the tasks/signature requirements for an object. See Tasks/Signatures Tab of the Lifecycle PowerView Page.

  1. If viewing tasks in the PowerView, click Approve Assigned Tasks in the page toolbar. See Approve Assigned Tasks Page for information about this page.

  2. To approve a single task or signature requirement:

    1. Select an option from the Approval Status pull-down list. The options vary depending on the type of task.

    2. Enter Comments explaining why that approval status was chosen.

  3. To approve multiple tasks (applies the same value to all selected rows):

    1. Check the needed tasks and signature requirements.
    2. Select the Column to update: Approval Status or Comments.
    3. If you selected the Approval Status column, select a value as described in step 3a.

      If you selected the Comment column, enter a comment that will be applied to all selected rows.

    4. Choose which tasks to update:


      1. Click Apply to Selected to only update the selected rows
      2. Click Apply to All to update all rows in the page, whether or not selected

      If you select an approval status other than No Action for a row, you must enter a Comment.

  4. Click Done.