Use the following approval procedure if you want to establish the approver of a hierarchical role to be approver.
| Approval procedure | Approver | 
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| RD | The request recipient is assigned a primary department. The department is assigned an application role in the Role approver menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
| RL | The request recipient is assigned a primary location. The location is assigned an application role in the Role approver menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
| RO | Installed modules: Business Roles Module The request recipient is assigned a primary business role. The business role is assigned an application role in the Role approver menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
| RP | The request recipient is assigned a primary cost center. The cost center is assigned an application role in the Role approver menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
Figure 6: Determining approvers through a department's role approver
 
| Approval procedure | Approver | 
|---|---|
| ID | The request recipient is assigned a primary department. The department is assigned an application role in the Role approver (IT) menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
| IL | The request recipient is assigned a primary location. The location is assigned an application role in the Role approver (IT) menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
| IO | Installed modules: Business Roles Module The request recipient is assigned a primary business role. The business role is assigned an application role in the Role approver (IT) menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
| IP | The request recipient is assigned a primary cost center. The cost center is assigned an application role in the Role approver (IT) menu. All secondarily assigned employees of this application role are determined to be approvers. | 
Determining the approver using the example of an approval role for the request's recipient primary department (approval procedure RD):
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Determine the requester’s primary department (UID_Department). 
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The application role (UID_AERole) is determined through the department’s role approver (UID_RulerContainer). 
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Determine the secondary employees assigned to this application role. These can issue approval. 
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If there is no approval role given for the primary department or the approval role does not have any members, the approval role is determined for the parent department. 
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The request cannot be approved if no approval role with members is found by drilling up to the top department. 
NOTE: When approvers are found using the approval procedures RO or IO, and inheritance for business roles is defined from the bottom up, note the following:
If no role approver is given for the primary business role, the role approver is determined from the child business role.
