Approval dates

When you create an approval from a workflow task, note the following behavior concerning the Forecast/Actual and Target dates for the approval.

If the task contains a date in either the Target End Date or Forecast/Actual End Date field, the system automatically copies the date into the approval’s Target Due Date.

If the task contains dates in both fields, the Forecast/Actual date is copied to the approval.

If you modify the date in the approval’s Target Due Date field, the Forecast/Actual End Date in the corresponding workflow approval task is updated with the new date.

Note the following about the way Unica Marketing Operations calculates duration when the project owner enters the start and end dates for an approval from a workflow task.

If the duration is less than what is specified in the approval for each approver, an equal amount of time is deducted from each required approver.

If the duration is more than what is specified in the approval for each approver, an equal amount of time is added to each required approver.

If the approver has already responded, the duration for that approver is not adjusted. The durations of the remaining approvers are adjusted if possible; if this is not possible an error message is displayed.

If for any reason an approver's duration can not be adjusted automatically, an error message is displayed requesting different values.

The Forecast/Actual Duration field in the workflow is overwritten with the sum of approver durations if an approver's duration is changed and saved.

Unica Marketing Operations automatically calculates the approval start date if the Forecast/Actual duration and Forecast/Actual end date are changed .