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Adding an approval workflow to an existing risk assessment

Roles and permissions

The following users can add an approval to a risk assessment:

  • Anyone with manager or contributor permissions for the assessment.

The approval workflow provides a structured process that ensures completed work is formally reviewed and verified by designated approvers before being finalized. When a risk evaluation’s status is set to Submitted, Hyperproof creates a series of approvals based on the approval workflow configured for the assessment. If you have an assessment that was not created with an approval workflow, you can add it later under the assessment Details tab.

Note:

  • Evaluations created before the approval workflow was configured on the assessment don’t automatically receive the approval configuration. They must be configured for approvals individually. See Configuring an approval on a risk evaluation.

  • If you edit the approval configuration on an assessment, the changes apply only to future evaluations. Existing evaluations are not affected.

  1. From the left menu, select Assessments.
    The Assessments window is displayed.

  2. Select the risk assessment where you want to add an approval workflow.

  3. Select the Details tab.

  4. Under Automations, click the Edit approvals button.

  5. If you want the risk evaluations to go through the approval workflow, make sure that Enable approvals is toggled on. This will require approval of an evaluation before updating the risk data with evaluation data. See Configuring an approval for step-by-step approval instructions.

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