What is the Safety Catch? (Stand-alone workflows)

The Administrator of an Organisation can specify how the system will handle requests for which there is no Approver added according to the approval workflow setup. Such requests can be automatically approved or rejected.

Go to Organisation > Approval workflows and select the appropriate workflow. Navigate to the gear icon and activate the preferred option:


When done, submit your changes by clicking on "Save" in the right upper corner.

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