Can an approver who is not the person responsible for a document approve the document?

This support note applies to:

• AO Document Manager (AU)
• AO Document Manager (NZ)
• AE Document Manager (NZ)
• AE Document Manager (AU)

In MYOB Document Manager (DM), a DM Approver who has edit rights to the document can edit the document status to Approved.

When editing the Status of a document to Awaiting Approval, Rework, or In Progress, the Approval screen appears.  In this Approvals screen, you can edit who is responsible for the next review of the document.

This field is not restricted to Document Manager Approvers.  The document will appear in the Documents Awaiting My Approval home page for an approver, and in the My Documents To Review home page for a non approver.

Any Document Manager Approver who has edit rights to the document can edit the document status to Approved.  This allows another employee to approve a document in another approver's absence.