Approving work

Click the Home icon in the upper-left corner of Adobe Workfront.

Click the Filter drop-down menu.

Select Approvals.
All work items that require your approval display.

(Optional) Change the order in which approvals are displayed, as described in the section “Group and sort by Date, Project, or Priority” in the article Display items in the Work List in the Home area.

Select the item where you want to make an approval decision.

Click one of the available options when making an approval decision in the right panel. The following options display in the upper-right corner of the page, depending on the type of item you are approving:

• Projects: Click Approve  or Reject.

• Tasks:  Click Approve  or Reject  .

• Issues:  Click Approve  or Reject .

• Timesheets:  Click Approve  or Reject  .

• Documents:  Click Approve,  Reject, or Changes.
   Consider the following when viewing  approvals:

  • Proof approvals display here when a user shares a proof with you, as described in the section “Share a proof link” in the article Share a proof within Adobe Workfront.

  • Proofing approvals are displayed in the Home area only if your Workfront environment is integrated with a Workfront Proof Premium account. If you cannot use proofing as discussed here, contact your Workfront administrator.

  • You receive an in-app notification, notifying you of the proofing approval.
    For more information about in-app notifications, see View and manage in-app notifications.

  • The name of the user who requested the approval is displayed next to the thumbnail image in the Home area, with the following text:
    “User A would like your approval on…”

    If the user name is not available, the following text is displayed:
    “A new version of a proof is ready to view”

  • To make an approval decision on the proof, click Go to Proof, click Finish review, then click one of the available options. The available options when approving a proof are:  Approved, Approved with changes, Changes required, and Not relevant.

  • After a decision is made on the proof, the proof remains in the My Approvals tab with the text “Decision Made” until you click the Refresh button, or until you refresh the browser page.

    For information about reviewing a proof, see Review proofs within Adobe Workfront.

• Access: Select the level of access to grant in the Change access drop-down menu, then click Grant Access. Or, click Ignore.

Go to the project, task, or issue that requires your approval.

Approval information regarding the current approval process of a project, task, or issue displays in the item’s header.

The following approval information is available:

Click Approve or Reject, depending on whether you want to approve or reject the approval process.
The approval stage that was pending approval is now approved, and the approval process moves to the next stage. The status is approved after all stages have been approved.

Go to the documents area that contains the document that requires your approval.

Select the document, then click Approve,  Changes, or Reject.

(Optional) If a proof has been generated for the document, you can approve the document within the proofing interface, as described in Approve a document from a proof.

From the email, click Make Approval Decision to open the Document Details page for the proof .

Do any of the following to review the document:

• View the metadata about the document.

• If a proof has been created for reviewing the document with markup and comments, click Open proof near the upper right corner and review the proof.

  For information about reviewing proofs, see Review proofs within Adobe Workfront.

Click a Decision option in the upper right corner to approve, approve with changes, or reject the document.