1. Click the Approval Tracking Settings menu title to open the Approval Tracking settings. The following figure illustrates these settings:

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  1. Review the following settings:
     
NameDescription/FunctionInitial Setting
Email template: Summary

Specifies the email template used when Send daily summaries only is selected for the Email Notice Preference setting. 

Individual Review Request

Email template: For your information

Specifies the email template used when an approver wants to know more information about a file, so that he or she can contact the requester for any other information. The template includes the requester’s email address.

FYI Notification

Email template: Disapproval notice to requester

Specifies the email template used when an approver disapproves a file. In this case, Legistar sends the requester a disapproval notification mail.

Item Disapproved Notice

Email template: Alternate approver not defined

Specifies the email template used when an approver has not defined an alternate approver for himself or herself.

No Alternate Approver

Email template: Delegation notification

Specifies the email template used when an approver delegates a file to the alternate approver, which means that now the alternate approver must take action on that file on the approver’s behalf. This happens only when an approver delegates a file to an alternate approver.

Delegation
Email template: Sequence restarted

Specifies the status of the sequence when a sequence is paused by an approver during the approval process.

Approval Sequence Restarted

Email template: Sequence paused

Specifies the status of the sequence when a sequence is paused by an approver during the approval process.

Approval Sequence Paused

Email template: Reminder notice

Specifies the email template used when an approver has not taken any action on a given file within the given due days.

Overdue Individual Review Request

Email template: Sequence approved

Specifies the email template used when an initiated sequence is approved by all approvers; in this case, an Approval Sequence Completed  Notice mail is sent to the requester.

Approval Sequence Completed Notice

Email template: Extend due date

Specifies the default email template ID used when notifying approvers of an extended due date.

Extend Due Date

Email template: Alternate approver has not responded

Specifies the email template used when an alternate approver has not taken any action on a file.

Do Not Send Email
Email template: Disapproval notice to sequence members

Specifies the email template used when an approver disapproves a file. In this case, Legistar sends a mail regarding the cancellation of the particular file to all approvers who have already approved that file.

Disapproval Notice to Approvers

Email template: Individual review request

Specifies the email template used when a requester initiates a sequence; in this case, an individual review request is sent to the approver for approving the file.

Individual Review Request

Email template: Escalation

Specifies the email template used when a requester initiates a sequence and an Escalated Individual Review Request is sent to the approver for approving the file.

Escalated Individual Review Request

Email template: Sequence canceled

Specifies the email template used when an approver cancels a sequence at any time after it has been initiated; in this case, an Approval Request Cancellation mail is sent to the FYIs as well as to the approver who cancelled it.

Approval Request Cancellation

Email Notice Type

Specifies how Legistar sends emails to the approver:

Select Send Individual Email Notices to send one mail for each file to the individual bodies.

Select Send Daily Summaries Only to send only one mail on a daily basis, which will have information regarding all files.

Select Send No Email Notices to not send any approval-related mails  to individuals.

Send individual email notices

Default Email from Address

Specifies the default Granicus email address that sends emails when the email is generated by the system or from a user that didn’t have an email address entered on their account.

DoNotReply@Granicus.com

File status on FYI

Specifies the status of each approval line for FYI reviewers. The status appears in the Status field on the Approval Tracking tab.

FYI

File status on Approved

Specifies the status of a file when an approver approves it.

Agenda Ready
File Status on Paused

Specifies the status of a file when the approval process is paused.

ATS Paused

File Status on Disapproved

Specifies the status of the file when an approver in the approval process disapproves the file.

Draft

File Status on Canceled

Specifies the status of the file when the approval process is cancelled.

ATS Cancelled

File Status on Initiated Approval Process

Specifies the status of a file when an approval sequence is initiated. 

ATS Review

Approvals Due Date Extension

Specifies the number of extended due days when an approver extends the number of days for taking any action on a file.

2

Escalated Due Days

When a file is escalated, this setting determines the number of days the new approver will have to respond to the file.

1

Approval Due Days

Sets the number of days within which an approver must approve a file.

2

Show Approval Setting in Legislative Master Report

Specifies whether or not to display the Approval Setting in Legislative Master Reports.

YES

Show Complete Approval Sequence List on Web

Specifies whether or not to display the Complete Approval Sequence List on the InSite web portal.

YES

Show Complete Approval Sequence List with FYI on Web

Specifies whether or not to display the Complete Approval Sequence List With FYI on the InSite web portal.

NO

Lock Matter File on Final Approval

Specifies whether or not Legistar automatically locks files when the approval is completed. 

YES

Allow Requester to Pause/Restart Sequence

Specifies whether or not the user who initiated the Approval Tracking Sequence is allowed to pause and restart the sequence.

YES

Send Email on Text File Change When In Approval Process

Specifies whether or not a notification email is sent to approvers when a text file changes during the approval process.

YES

  1. When you change a setting, click Save and then click Exit to exit Administration. Click the Tools menu in Legistar, and select Refresh Administration for your changes to take effect in the system.