Personalizing the My Approval Status Portlet

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2. Click the Personalize link.

3. In the Display Name field, enter a different title for the portlet if required. For

example, if the portlet will be used only to display approval notifications, you might change the display name to Items Requiring My Approval.

4. In the Display Limit radio group, select whether to display all notifications or

limit the portlet to display only a specified number of notifications.

5. Make sure the Show Approval Notifications check box is selected.

The portlet can also display expiry and subscription notifications.

6. Select the Display Notification Type Icon in Portlet check box if you want to

display an icon to illustrate whether the notification is an approval, expiry, or subscription notification. This is useful if you intend to use the portlet to display other types of notifications.

7. Select the Display Notification Status in Portlet check box if you want to display

the status of the notification in the portlet. This is useful if you intend to use the portlet to display other types of notifications. For approval notifications there is only one status: Request Pending.

8. Click OK.

2.7.2.2 Approving or Rejecting an Item

When there is an item that requires your approval, you receive a notification in the My Notifications or My Worklist portlet. You must decide whether to approve or reject the item. If you approve the item, a notification is sent to the next approver in the approval process. If you are the final approver in the approval process, the item will be published to the portal after you approve it. You may instead decide to reject the item. If you reject the item, the approval process is halted even if there are remaining steps approvers. After you approve or reject the item, the notification is removed from the portlet. In the My Notifications and My Worklist portlets, the approver can click the subject title to display the approval page. From this page, the approver can view the item, enter comments, and decide whether to approve or reject the item. The approver can also view the approval history of the item. The powers of approval and rejection for Oracle Portal approval processes are distributed as follows: ■ You must be one of the current approvers, a page group administrator, or a page or content manager with the Manage or Manage Content privilege on the page, to approve or reject an item. ■ An approver can also approve or reject an item directly on its page using the Pending Items Preview mode. See Section 2.7.1.1, Using the Pending Items Preview Mode. ■ An approver can also update a pending item and directly make changes before approving the item. Only approvers who have Manage Content privilege or higher are able to update pending items. See Section 2.7.1.1, Using the Pending Items Preview Mode. If a translated item requires approval, it can be updated by an approver but to do so, the approver must be logged in to the portal with the same language as the translated item and have the necessary privileges. ■ The portal administrator can approve or reject any pending item. On approval by the portal administrator, the process skips the current approver and moves onto