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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

Approve or reject a contract document

Review a contract request or attachment and approve or reject it.

Before you begin

You must have received an email notification with a link to the request for approval.

Role required: sn_cm_core.contract_fulfiller

Procedure

  1. Open the approval record from the email notification, Self-Service, or Employee Center portal.
OptionsSteps
From the email notificationClick the link in the email to open the record that needs approval.
From Self-Service
  1. Navigate to All > Self-Service > My Approvals.
  2. In the My Approvals list, click a record to open for approval.
From Employee Center
  1. In the Employee Center portal, on the menu bar, click the My Tasks.
  2. In the My To-dos list, click a record under the Open tab to open for approval.

  1. Review the record and either approve or reject:

    • To approve the record, click Approve.
    • To reject the record, enter comments for rejection in the Comments field and click Reject. Note: View the contract revision document available as the attachment on the internal storage or with the view access on the external storage.

Result

The following table shows the result of approve and reject actions on the approval record. Contract fulfiller and collaborators get an email notification about the approval or rejection.

ApproveReject
  • The state of approval record updates from Requested to Approved.

If the requested item was assigned to a user group for approval, then the state of the approval records for the remaining users updates from Requested to No Longer Required.

  • Any approver who isn’t added to Watch list in the request loses access to the approved contract document.
  • The state of approval record updates from Requested to Rejected.

If the requested item was assigned to a user group for approval, then the state of the approval records for the remaining users updates from Requested to No Longer Required.

  • The rejection comments posted by the approver are added to the requests Activities section.
  • Any approver who isn’t added to Watch list in the request loses access to the rejected contract document.

Parent Topic:Initiate an ad hoc approval for a contract document revision