Approval delegates

approval delegates lets you designate a trusted person to review and act on approval requests on your behalf delegates see delegated tasks in their my tasks list and can approve, reject, or comment, with all actions recorded as on behalf of you in the approval history this is useful for assistants and chiefs of staff who manage approval workloads for executives on an ongoing basis vacation coverage to keep approvals moving when you are out for an extended period high volume approvals where distributing approval work helps things stay unblocked approval delegates supports scenario approvals and time off approvals accessing the approval delegates tab go to settings > user settings and select the approval delegates tab you will see two sections one for scenarios and one for time off each section lets you independently assign a delegate for that approval type your delegate will receive the same access you have for the approval type, so they can review and act on requests on your behalf setting a delegate in either the scenarios or time off section, search for the person you would like to designate as your delegate and select them only active users with a filled job can be selected you can only have one delegate per approval type at a time if you set a new delegate, they replace the previous one always on vs time scoped delegation by default, the always on checkbox is selected, meaning your delegate is active indefinitely until you manually remove them this is useful for assistants or chiefs of staff who manage your approvals on an ongoing basis if you uncheck always on , you can set a start date and end date for the delegation this is useful for planned absences like an extended vacation or leave, where you only need coverage for a specific window of time when a time scoped delegation expires, it is automatically deactivated the expired delegation remains visible in your settings (greyed out), so you can easily update the dates or turn always on back on without having to re select the person