Setting up an approval chain

once approvals are enabled, you can create your first approval chain there is no limit to how many approval chains you can have, however they will only be utilized if they are assigned as the default chain, or assigned to specific scenario types an approval chain consists of the following submitter person who is submitting the scenario request approver(s) person(s) who will be responsible for approving or rejecting the changes requested fallback approver person who will be placed in the approval chain if the designated approver is no longer in your org if a person is reporting to an open job, their manager's manager will receive the request for approval rather people notified anyone in your org with access to merge a scenario is allowed to be set as a notified person assigning approval chains once you have approval chain(s) created, you can designate chains to be used on certain types of scenarios created at the top of the setup page, you can set a default approval chain for all scenario types that do not have an approval chain assigned you can make a chain the default chain for specific types of scenarios by checking the box next to your chain, and choosing which scenario types it should be used for this will override your default approval chain for those scenario types https //www charthop com/pricing/ headcount planning | compensation planning | hris