Limiting approval by role
By default, the ability to act upon pending requests is controlled by the team hierarchy and access to the Time Off Approval page. To enforce a more controlled approval process, you can limit the ability to act upon time off requests to specific roles, depending on the time off type. For example, you can limit the approval or denial of vacation requests to only supervisors and sick requests to only managers.
If a request covers multiple days, approvers can only approve or deny requests that fall on days on which the approver is assigned to the appropriate role for that employee.
If a request includes multiple time off types, approvers can only approve or deny those types that match the roles they are assigned to for that employee.
When determining if an approver is assigned to a certain role, the approver's role for both the employee's immediate team and any parent teams are considered. For example, only supervisors can approve a vacation request. When an employee submits a vacation request, the supervisor for the employee's team can approve the request. In addition, the supervisor for the employee's parent team, and so on up the team hierarchy, can approve the request.