Approvers

Approvers are involved in deciding whether a document continues along in an approval workflow. Usually, approvers are people who conduct supervisory analysis of the document. A reviewed document often requires subsequent approval - though approval stages can occur between review stages as required. Approvers do not interactively provide feedback to review documents. They review the document from a high-level point of view based on a business, regulatory, and legal perspective. An approver can be a person who has already participated in an earlier review stage as a reviewer.

Typically, approvers receive the document after a review of the content as been completed in a prior review stage. After they view the document, they can do one of the following actions:

• Approve: If the approver chooses to approve the document, they can optionally apply a digital signature. Digital signatures can be applied to an attached signing sheet or approval routing slip.

• Reject: If the document is rejected, approvers can enter a reason why they did not approve, when an approval routing slip is available. The document is then returned to the review initiator.

  The review initiator can adjust the content, and restart the approval stage as required.