Approvals Reports

Each content item awaiting your approval appears on this report. Thus, you can quickly find all such content without searching through every folder.

The View All Content Awaiting Approval screen displays the following information about this content.

Field	Description
Title	Title of content.
Request Type	Request made for the content. Either Publish or Delete.
Start Date	Start date, if any, assigned to the content. Determines when content will go live on Web site.
Date Modified	Date the content was most recently changed
Submitted By	User who submitted content for approval.
ID	The ID number if the content.
Language	The language of the content.
Path	Path to content folder where content resides.

Approving/Declining Content

From the approvals report, you can approve or decline content that was submitted to you. The steps below explain how to do so.

Learn About Approving/Declining One Content Item

1. Access your Approvals report in the Workarea (see Approvals Reports).

2. Click the content you want to approve or decline.

3. The View Content Awaiting Approval page is displayed.

4. Perform an action using the following table as a reference.

Button	Name	Description
	Publish	Accept changes to content and publish it to site. Note: If there is a subsequent approver in the content’s approval chain, this button is replaced by a Submit button. If you click Publish but the content item has an incomplete task assigned to another user, the content cannot be published. Instead, the following error message appears. The user to whom the task is assigned must complete it before you can publish the content.
	Decline	Reject changes and keep current version of content live on Web site. You are prompted to enter a comment that provides a reason for the decline. The author who made the change is notified by email of the decline. The content inserted by the last editor remains in the file. If you do not want it to remain, choose the Edit option.
	Edit	Check out content and make changes to it if desired.
	View Published/Staged	Toggle between published and submitted versions of content. This can help you compare differences.
	Back	Go back to previous screen.

Learn About Approving Multiple Content Items

The selected content is either submitted to the next publisher, published immediately, or deleted, depending on the content’s approval chain.