Temporary rights of an approval delegate

An approval delegate temporarily gains the rights for the approval group of the delegating operator while the approval delegation is active. After the approval delegation period ends, the delegate's temporary rights for the approval group revert to their original status.

Approval delegation never changes a delegate's original application profile or operator record. HPE Service Manager only changes a delegate's approval group rights in memory when the following conditions occur.

  • When the system notifies the delegate
  • When a delegate views or acts on an approval

For example, a manager wants to delegate approval authority to a technician. The manager is the delegator in this example, thereby temporarily delegating approval authority for the following application profiles and approval groups.

Application Profile used Approval groups
Change Management APPROVER CAB
Request Management APPROVER ASSET MANAGEMENT
FACILITIES
HELPDESK
LAN SUPPORT
M/F SUPPORT
ONLINE SUPPORT
WAN SUPPORT
TRAINING
TRAINING
TELECOMS
SUPPORT ADMIN
SYSTEMS ADMIN
SOFTWARE
SERVICE DESK
PROCUREMENT
Service Desk INITIATOR  

The technician is the delegate in this example. The technician's original approval authority includes the following application profiles and approval groups:

Application Profile used Approval groups
Change Management TECH FACILITIES
LAN SUPPORT
M/F SUPPORT
ONLINE SUPPORT
WAN SUPPORT
Request Management TECH  
Service Desk INITIATOR  

When the manager delegates approval authority to the technician, the technician temporarily becomes a member of all of the approval groups that the manager is a member of:

Application Profile used Approval groups Gained as delegate?
Change Management TECH CAB Yes
FACILITIES no
LAN SUPPORT no
M/F SUPPORT no
ONLINE SUPPORT no
WAN SUPPORT no
Request Management TECH ASSET MANAGEMENT Yes
FACILITIES Yes
HELPDESK Yes
LAN SUPPORT Yes
M/F SUPPORT Yes
ONLINE SUPPORT Yes
WAN SUPPORT Yes
TRAINING Yes
TRAINING Yes
TELECOMS Yes
SUPPORT ADMIN Yes
SYSTEMS ADMIN Yes
SOFTWARE Yes
SERVICE DESK Yes
PROCUREMENT Yes
Service Desk INITIATOR   no