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 Target Due Date for the approval.

If you modify the date in the 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 IBM® 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.

When an approver responds, the duration for that approver is not adjusted. The durations for the remaining approvers are adjusted if possible or an error message displays.

If for any reason the duration for an approver cannot be adjusted automatically, an error message displays requesting different values.

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

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