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title: Acting as a delegate
slug: acting-as-a-delegate
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createdAt: 2026-07-07T22:12:48.707Z
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When someone sets you as their approval delegate, you will receive an in-app notification and email confirming the assignment.

When a delegated approval lands in your queue, it appears in your **My Tasks** list on the ChartHop home screen alongside your own tasks. Each delegated task shows **Delegated by \[Name]** so you always know whose behalf you are acting on. The **Assigned for** column shows the original approver's name.

For time-off approvals, you will also receive the same Slack notification the original approver would get, including interactive Approve and Reject buttons.

## Taking action

From My Tasks, click through to the approval to review it and take action. As a delegate you can:

- **Approve** the request
- **Reject** the request (you can include a reason)
- **Comment** on the request

For scenario approvals, you can also edit the scenario's changes while the approval is pending, the same way the original approver can.

If you are both a direct approver and a delegate for one or more co-approvers in the same stage, a single Approve action resolves all of those slots at once. If you reject, it applies to the first actionable slot and terminates the stage per normal rejection behavior.

## How attribution works

All actions you take as a delegate are attributed to you in the approval history, and recorded as acting on behalf of the original approver. For example, the approval timeline will show: Jane Smith approved on behalf of John Doe.

The original approver receives an in-app notification and email when you approve or reject on their behalf. If you reject with a reason, that reason is included in the notification.

## When the approval completes

Once an approval is fully resolved (approved or rejected), the task is removed from both your queue and the original approver's queue.