Forcing a Document or Questionnaire from Review to Approval

When necessary, as a document owner or administrator you can move a document or questionnaire currently in the Review status on to the Approval status, skipping any reviewers who have not yet completed their review tasks.

Important: If you are not an administrator, you cannot force a document/questionnaire from Review to Approval if the document's/questionnaire's template contains required reviewers.

  1. Find and open the document or questionnaire currently in review that you need to move on to approval (see Searching for a Document or Questionnaire or Browsing for a Document or Questionnaire).
  2. Click , and then click Submit for Approval.
  1. You will see a message like the one below listing the reviewers that will be skipped if you continue. Click OK.
  1. (Optional) The comments provided when the document/questionnaire was submitted for review are displayed. You can replace or edit those comments.
  1. Click Submit, and then click OK. Skipped reviewers are notified that they no longer need to complete their review tasks for this document/questionnaire, and assigned approvers receive new tasks.