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You must have the Jira System Administrators global permission before you can carry out the instructions on this page


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Before you can setup the Project and the Issue Types that involve approval steps, you must set up the users who are involved in approval processes.

The Approval Administration screen allows to assign Approvals to Project Roles, Groups, Users, Issue Reporter, Assignee and Project lead.

You can reuse an Approvals across different Approval Mappings. 


Overview

The Approval Administration screen allows you to add, edit, manage advanced settings, delete and review your approval configurations.

The Approval Administration screen looks like as follows:

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In details:

  • Approval Name: It identifies the approval and once it's created it cannot be renamed;

  • Roles: It shows which project roles have been selected;

  • Groups: It shows which groups have been selected;

  • User: It's which users have been selected;

  • Reporter: If the reporter has been selected, the flag will show;

  • Assigne: If the assignee has been selected, the flag will show;

  • Project Lead: If the project lead has been selected, the flag will show;

How to create an Approval

To require approvals in an Approval Mapping, you need first to create them.

Here's how to do it:

    • Click Add Approval on the top of the Approval Administration screen

    • Fill the fields showing up on the Add Approval Configuration screen:

      1. Approval Name (Required), the name identifying the Approval;

      2. Description (Optional), it's the description;

      3. Here you can fill out one property that users must satisfy to be enabled to Approve/Reject/Abstain.

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You can select multiple values for a given property.