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The Global Configurations screen allows you to manage the following settings:

• Approval General Settings

  • Approval Delegation → enable/disable the Approval delegation functionalities.

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• Approval Superusers

  • Super Approver → provides selected users with special privileges to approve or reject any approval

  • Approval Expression Superuser → User used by the app to populate the user picker custom fields case of Approval configurations based on expressions

  • Conditional Rule Superuser → User used by the app by default to evaluate the Conditional Rules (Not set by default). It’s mandatory to select an user in order to create a Conditional Rule.

• Approval Actions

  • Reject Approval Action → This option allows to disable/enable the capability to reject (Enable by default)

  • Abstain Approval Action → This option allows to enable/disable the capability to abstain (Disable by default)

  • Lock Reversing Approval Actions → This option allows to lock approval actions (Disable by default)

  • Enable Actions on Approval Panel → This option allows to enable the rest of action when one of them has already executed.

• Approval Display Options

  • Actions on Command-bar → This option allows to enable Approval Action on the Issue

  • View Approval Flow → This option allows to view approval flow

  • Web Panel Expanded  → This option allows to maintain Approvals expanded or collapsed (Disabled by default).Enabled

  • View Percentage Number → This option allows to view percentage number of kept approbations (Enable by default)

  • Display Approvals → This option allows to default displaying only own approvals for logged user  (The logged user displays all approvals by default).

  • Display Large Action Buttons → This option allows to display large or small buttons for selected users (No user displays large buttons by default).

  • Request Button Label → Customize Request Approvals button label (No label by default). If no custom label is inserted, the button default label 'Request Approvals' displays.

  • Customize Field Labels → Customize field labels in Approval Web Panel help (No label by default). If no custom label is inserted, the default field labels display.

  • Customize Action Button Labels → Customize the action button labels on issue (No label by default). If no custom label is inserted, the default button labels display.

• Approval Logs via Comments

  • Logging Approval Events → Enable logging approval events as Jira Comments

  • Approval Log Text → Customize the text of the approval log.

  • Approval Requests and Replies by Comment → Enable notifying the approval request via a Jira comment and processing the approver response from a Jira comment.

• Approval History

  • Enable Approval History → Enable recording the events regarding the approval flow.

  • Show Event Grouped by →  Choose a field that will be used to group the events displayed on the Approval History tab.

  • Hide Events → Filter the Events that you want to display on the Approval History tab

  • Expand or Collapse Rows → Choose to collapse or expand, on the Approval History tab, detailed information on each event.

  • Apply Filter → This option allows to filter the displayed rows (None by default).

  • Fields Name → This option allows to choose where fields name display

  • Customize History Fields → This option allows to customize any field label and choose to show or hide them.

• Approval Email

  • Email Approval Delimiter → Customize the delimiter of the approval reply @ ('@' by default)

  • Customize E-mail buttons → You can customize the label displayed on each button of the Approval Request Email. If a label is not set, the default label is used.

• Summary

  • Present a table that summarizes the quantity of objects generated within the application.

• Slack

  • Facilitates the connection of the application to a Slack channel, enabling the reception of approval notifications.

The approvals identify who can approve or reject. You must first setup Approvals on the Approvals screen in order to setup the on Approvals Mappings

The Conditional Rules Configuration Screen allows you to manage Conditional Rules that can apply to enable/disable Approvals, Minimum required Approbations/Rejections to transition an issue, and enable/disable an Email Template.

The action will execute when the condition returns true.

A Conditional Rule is a JQL expression that can be used to meet complex requirements.

The Approval Mapping screen allows you to set up your Approval Flows by Project and Issue Type and for each transition of the configured workflow.

The E-Mail Templates screen allows you to create custom email templates for Approval Request and Approval Reply emails