Approval Exemptions

4E applies a default in-organization approval process for the below cases.

Newly added and edited KPIs and objectives are to be approved by superiors.
Forms edited are to be approved by the approvers
Metrics edited are to be approved by the approvers

The changes are not accepted until the supervisor/approver approves them and KPIs, forms and metrics remain in a pending state

However, 4E also provides the ability to exempt certain users from this approval process. The users added to this list are exempt from the approval process and their changes will be auto-approved.

4E will not wait for those exempted users to get the changes approved manually. Since they have been added to the exemption list, all requests arriving for their approval will be automatically marked approved.

4E team does not recommend this approach unless the 4E users can be entrusted with validity of changes to their own KPIs.

Field	Description
Select User	If the Approval exemption has to be defined to any specific user then it can be done using this option. The admin search for users by entering the name and select the desired user.
Select position	If the Approval exemption has to be defined to the user with specific position/designation then it can be done using this option. The admin will be provided with the list of positions available, to select, in 4E system which belong to the organization using the 4E system.
Approval exemption / KPI	If the KPI owner is added in the Exempted list and this option is enabled then all his KPIs will get auto approved.
Approval exemption / Objective	If the Objective owner is added to the Exempted list as shown below and this option is enabled then all his Objectives will get auto approved.
Approval exemption / Form	If the approver of a form is added to the Exempted list and this option is enabled, then all edits done by the users having edit access to the same form will get auto approved.
Approval exemption / Metric	If the approver of a metric is added to the Exempted list and this option is enabled, then all edits done by the users having edit access to the same metric will get auto approved.