Approvals relate to the Approvals regime for Purchase Orders explained on Page 24 of this manual. Where a person is a PO Approver as specified on the People table, they are automatically a valid approver as far as Approvals functionality.
When a Purchase Order is allocated to an Approver through the F3 function on the Purchase Order Header, the notification of the required approval is sent to the allocated Approver. This user will receive notification of the list on entry to Workbench, or if already logged in as often as the Time Notification has been set.
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