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You can define workflows for timesheets, expense reports, and absence requests.
Workflow Configuration
By default, by legal agency
In your Administration > Agencies > Your agency > “Activity and Expenses” tab, you will find the following 3 sections:
Timesheet settings
Expense report settings
Absence request settings
The workflows configured here will apply by default to all resources linked to the agency.
Case by case, by resource
From a resource's profile > Configuration cogwheel > “Validation workflows” section
If you choose the “Customized” option, the workflows configured here will replace the default workflows and apply specifically to the resource in question.
Please note
If you change the configuration of workflows, the new rules will apply to all new documents created after the modification is made.
Example: if a timesheet is already created (even if not validated), the new workflow will not apply; it will only be effective the following month.
Structure of a validation workflow
You can create a workflow with different data:
Managers: Manager N, Manager N+1, HR manager, etc.
These fields are present in the resource profile and are dynamic, so the workflow will adapt to the information linked to the resource.
Managers
Managers correspond to specific people in your interface, even if they do not have a hierarchical link with the resource in Boond.
Example: I indicate Jules Verne as a validator, it will always be specifically up to him to validate the item.
Business units
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Business units are groups of managers: all managers in the group will be able to read, write, validate/unvalidate the relevant document (timesheet, expense, absence).
Example: A “Payroll Service” business unit that validates all absence requests
Learn everything about business units in this article
Managing a workflow with multiple validators
You can create a validation workflow with multiple validators – these must be entered in the workflow in chronological order: validator 1, validator 2, final validator.
Note: in a workflow with multiple validators, the higher-level validator can always validate the document instead of the lower-level validators.
Example: I have a workflow composed of Victor Hugo then Jules Verne.
Jules can at any time validate the document instead of Victor.
Impact of validation workflows
Anyone included in a validation workflow is granted read and edit rights on the relevant item.
🚨 Note
The configuration of your workflows should be carefully considered; as a validator, I may have access to data hidden by my rights and impact production data.
As a validator, an email notification and a notification in your Boond interface will be sent to you when an item is assigned to you. You can also configure alerts in your database so you don’t forget to handle assigned items.
All items to be validated are visible to the validator in the Activity and Expenses module > Validations view
Learn everything about this view via the dedicated tutorial
FAQ
One of my validator managers is absent, can I replace them in a workflow?
Through the Answering Validators application, you can set up replacement workflows during your validator managers’ absences.
The complete tutorial on this application is available here
Can I include my consultant’s client in my validation workflow?
Only managers present in your Boond interface can be included in a validation workflow. These are therefore strictly internal workflows.
If you want your client to validate items, you can send timesheets for signature. Learn all about this process in this tutorial.
How can I easily review all the documents I need to validate?
In the Activities & Expenses module, the Validations view allows you to find all documents pending validation in your name.
Learn everything about this view via the dedicated article.
For a BU, is an email and/or notification also sent for a document pending validation?
No, and this is an exception. If the next seal is a BU, once the document is pending at the BU level, we do not send any email or notification to avoid flooding all BU members. Emails/notifications are reserved for individual managers present in the validation workflow.