Set up approval coverage by specifying who handles your approval responsibilities and for how long.
Required Editions
| Available in: Lightning Experience |
| Available in: Enterprise, Unlimited, and Developer Editions where Advanced Approvals is enabled |
| User Permissions Needed | |
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| To create delegation records: | Create, Edit, and Delete on Approval Delegation |
- From the App Launcher, find and select Approvals.
- Open Manage Approval Delegations.
- Click New.
- In the Delegated From User field, select the user delegating their approvals.
- In the Delegated To field, select the user, group, or queue that manages approvals on the reviewer's behalf.
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In the Start Date field, enter the date and time when the delegation is active.
The start date must be in the future.
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In the End Date field, enter the date and time when the delegation expires.
The end date must be later than the start date. If left blank, the delegation remains active indefinitely.
- Enter your comments.
- Save your changes.
Note A reviewer can have only 1 active delegation at a time. To assign different delegates for
different periods, create non-overlapping approval delegation records.