To respond to an approval

When it is your turn to respond to an approval or complete an approval task, IBM® Unica® Marketing Operations notifies you through the Alerts window and by email. Both the alert and the email contain a link to the approval. You can view the approval in various views in Marketing Operations, such as the My Active Approvals view.

Complete the following steps.

1.	Click the link to the approval.

2.	At the top of the Approval Response form, examine the approval description and the instructions.

3.	View an approval item by clicking the thumbnail image or the link for the item.

The item opens in a browser.

Select View/Add Markup to add in-document comments to the item. If you do not choose this link, any comments you make are lost when you close the item.

4.	For each item listed, complete the following steps.

a.	Click Post Feedback.

b.	In the Response window, enter your review comments in the Your Response section.

c.	As an alternative to entering comments in this form, you can attach a document that contains your comments. Under Additional Comments, click Attach Comments File and upload the file that contains your comments.

d.	Select the appropriate response for the item.

Approve: indicates that you approve of the item as it is.

Approve w/Changes: indicates that you made comments in an item or added comments in the text box and you approve the item with those exceptions

Denied: indicates that you made major comments or suggestions necessitating fundamental editing of the item by the approval owner.

5.	After you respond to every item in the list and you are sure that you are finished commenting, click Post Complete Response. At this point, you cannot change your response.

The response form appears with your response listed next your name in the list of approvers. IBM® Unica® Marketing Operations sends an alert and an email message containing your response to the approval owner and sends an alert to the next reviewer, if any.

To reassign a team approval

To add comments to an approval item

Editing an approval that is linked to a workflow task

Approval response form

Notes on responding to an approval