Overview

The Approval Display Options section on the Global Configuration screen allows you to enable some valuable features of the app

In particular, as a Jira Administrator, you can:

• enable the capability, for approvers, to perform the approval Actions capability to perform the approval Actions on the command-bar of the issue view screen

• capability to view the Approval Flow assigned to an issue

• customize the aspect of the approvals web panel (display the panel expanded, display the percentage number of kept approbations, display only logged user Approvals, display large buttons, hide fields and rename fields labels).

In this section

Action on the command-bar

The Actions on the command-bar option allows you to enable the capability for users to perform the Approval actions on the command-bar of the issue

This option expects the values ON or OFF. By default, this option is OFF.

When this option is turned ON, In the issue the 'Awaiting your Approval' drop-down Button is shown to all logged users who have pending approval requests

The approval user can choose the desired approval action to be executed from the selection list.

View Approval Flow

The View Approval Flow option allows you to enable the button “View approval flow” that display the Approval flow configuration in the issue screen.

This option expects the values ON or OFF. By default, this option is OFF.

When this option is turned ON, the issue shows the link View Approval Flow that allows to open the screen showing the Approval Flow configuration.

Web Panel Expanded

This option allows to load the Approval Web Panel expanded. Users will be able to collapse the Web panel, clicking on the top arrow.

This option expects the values ON or OFF. By default this option is OFF.

When this option is turned ON, the Approval Web Panel loads expanded.

View Percentage Number

This option allows to show the percentage number of kept approbations.

This option expects the values ON or OFF. By default this option is OFF.

When this option is turned OFF, the percentage number of kept approbations doesn't display.

Display Approvals

This option allows to display only logged user Approvals.

This option expects the values All or Only My Approvals. By default this option is All.

When this option is turned Only My Approvals, the Approvals Web Panel displays only logged user Approvals.

Display Large Action buttons

This option allows to display large action buttons.

This option expects the values All users, Only Selected users or None. By default this option is None.

When this option is None, the Approvals Web Panel displays small action buttons.

When this option is turned All users, the Approvals Web Panel displays large action buttons.

When this option is turned Only Selected users, the Approvals Web Panel displays large action buttons if logged user matches any of selected user.

Request Approvals button Label

This option allows to customize the Request Approvals button label.

This option expects a text having max length 30 chars.

When no text is specified, the default text 'Request Approvals' displays.

Customize Field Labels

These options allow to customize the field labels in Approval Web Panel and furthermore to hide them.

These options expect texts having max length 30 chars.

When no texts are specified, the default texts display.

By default any field shows, in order to hide it you can select Hide.

Customize Action Button Labels

These options allow to customize the action's button labels

These options expect texts having max length 30 chars.

When no texts are specified, the default texts display.

Lock Approved/Rejected/Abstained Approvals

This option allows you to block actions on approvals after a specified time (days and hours).

This option is disabled by default

When the days and hours field is set to a value different from 0, the actions in the panel will be blocked after that time.